Many leaders think their team is the group of people who report to them. It’s not.
Your first team is the one you sit with around the leadership table—your peers and your boss.
Yet, too often, leadership meetings are filled with competing priorities, resource battles, silence, or discussions focused on individual departments.
When leaders put the success of the A-Team ahead of individual interests, silos shrink, and value is created for the organization as a whole. Those leaders show up as representatives of the leadership team to their employees, not as advocates for a single department.
How much trust and collaboration exists around your leadership table ?
Are you helping create an enterprise mindset—or reinforcing silos ?
