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DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP

TEAMS

No man is wise enough by himself.
—Plautus
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the
greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play
together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
—Babe Ruth

Traditionally, leadership development utilizing 360-degree feedback has been
an individual development effort. In most organizations, participants come to
a training event with a group of people they don’t know. This format creates
a safe learning experience and also enables participants to build a network
outside of their narrower work group. Multirater or 360-degree feedback is
given to each individual and used to help them understand their strengths
and opportunities for improvement.
One of our clients requested that we conduct the training sessions with
intact teams. In addition to doing the training with the intact team, we sug-
gested that a team leadership profile be created by aggregating all individual
360-degree feedback into one composite report.
After compiling hundreds of team profiles, we found them quite remark-
able in their ability to capture the personality of a team. The profiles are as

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