Jack McGuinness

Executives are five times more productive when working as part of a high-performing leadership team than they are when working as part of an average one. So why do so many CEOs fail in putting one together?

Much like a basketball team, symphony orchestra and Army Ranger unit, it is not too difficult to spot when leadership teams don’t pay sufficient attention to the fundamentals. Here are a few indicators.

Now is the time to jump-start your leadership team by refining the team’s structural foundation and creating an environment where productive dialogue will thrive.

Great leadership teams are critical to an organization’s success and trust is the fuel that helps to make leadership teams thrive. Learn how trust on leadership teams can diminish and what steps CEOs can take to repair trust.

Learn why an aligned leadership team has confidence in its ability to get back in sync after inevitable periods of dysfunction.

The challenge of helping a CEO understand the importance of being accountable to his or her team is not easy an easy one to overcome.

For a team to fulfill its potential and create value beyond what individual members bring to the table, leaders have to create a strong environment of trust.

Evolving a group of executives, even highly-skilled and talented ones, into a cohesive leadership unit that points the organization in the right direction is a complex endeavor.

One of the most challenging aspects of building a great leadership team is the inability of team members to give and receive feedback.

All leadership teams have the opportunity to serve as force multipliers for their organizations where the team’s impact goes far beyond the contributions of individual team members.