When You Speak, Does Your Team Listen?

January 4, 2013
As we launch the new year, many organizations are also launching their new strategic plans. Having a killer plan is one thing – but having your team follow you as you implement that new plan is quite another. This challenge is critical, whether you are a front-line supervisor with a small team, a program manager with large clinical team, or the CEO of the entire organization.

Making "followers" of your team is a key leadership competency – and a path fraught with many obstacles. In a great piece on followership in the McKinsey Quarterly, How leaders kill meaning . . .