Vision and purpose are our future, forward looking guide rails. Because we are passionate and because ideas come to us all the time, vision and purpose are the guides that keep us contained and aligned, for a period of time.
Give them space!
If you ever really want to build a “real team” on purpose, you will have to give them space!
A real team needs to build their own purpose, share information and communicate in ways not generally the norm in most businesses these days and they need to figure out how they work best together. As the senior leader commissioning this team, give them the space to do these things!
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Coach is the third part of your role!
Being a coach to your team provides a number of things the other roles do not. In this role you help your people find their own answers - this takes you out of the know it all or go to person role (scary?). When your people find their own answers they generate a higher level of trust in themselves - they grow. As they grow they develop a depth and a strength of character that allows them to reach further and out perform their own past best outcomes.