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Effective Management Teams

Effective management teams develop their own operating principles. This tool illustrates seven principles we recommend for management teams. Your team can review these principles and decide which ones to keep and which ones to modify. The team can then use these as a basis to ensure it works consistently and effectively together.

Management Team Operating Principles: An Example

1. Our first responsibility is to the success of the entire organization.

2. We are responsible for helping one another achieve important organizational goals. That is how we can be effective as a team.

3. As team members, we need to view each other as supports, not threats.

4. As team members, we have a right to hear first from each other about issues that affect us, not second-hand or via the “grapevine.”

5. Since we have a responsibility to help each other, we must bring tough issues to the table and discuss them with each other.

6. When discussing difficult issues, we have a responsibility to ask questions first before we reach conclusions. We need to understand the Goal (both of the current discussion and the long-range goal), the current Reality, the Options, and what we Will do next and when. The GROW model of productive conversation was first described by John Whitmore, in “Coaching for Performance.”

7. When discussing difficult topics, we need to tackle the issue, not each other. In the course of questioning, our goal is to share data, assumptions, and our various perceptions, not attack each others positions.

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