Team Building for Management

Build a Team of Top Managers for Corporate Success

It is very important in any corporation to have a team of managers that work together for the success of the organization, instead of competing with each other solely for their own personal agendas. (At the expense of the corporation.)

Political Savvy seminars and coaching can train groups or specific individuals on the skills neccessary to move a corporation forward on the most important projects where continued growth and change are neccessary for corporate success and survival.

"How do I get my team to stop bickering among themselves and start actually start woking together as a team? Our corporate survival depends upon it?" --CEO

At senior levels of management at least two extra dynamics come into play. First, while unable to say so, several members want the CEO's job. This creates an underlying tension that cannot be expressed where their may be greater incentives to undermine each other than to work together. Some people would rather be CEO of a less effective organization than a Senior Vice President of a higly effective organization.

A second and separate dynamic is sometimes called "The Land of the Bosses" syndrome. Before being promoted to Corporate Headquarters to head a major function or division, these executives have often been 'the boss' at units outside of corporate for years without another 'boss' in daily sight. Once promoted to Corporate Headquarters the person who has gotten used to being treated as the boss when they arrive at the office each day is suddenly crammed into an area where everone around them has also been 'the boss' for much of their career.

Entering the "Land of the Bosses" is a new experience for them, one they are often not prepared for. A common scenario is that they first act like the boss they have been for some time, but then their fellow bosses won't let them. So they can't go sideways. They certainly can't boss the CEO, though some foolishly try. So they can't go up.

Then they revert back to their more normal habits of 'bossing' those below them in the field. For some reason, many of them seem to forget that when they were bosses in the field they spent a good deal of their time protecting their unit from all the junk that came down from corporate. So they find they can't quite boss downwards either. All this can become very frustrating, but of course their egos could never allow them to admit it. They can become stuck and quite frustrated. Unless something like political savvy behavior develops; this frustration can act out in ways dysfunctional to everyone around them especially the corporation. Afterall this group at the top often represents the most seasoned of the companies best and brightest.

The higher one goes in the corporation the more likely understanding the inner political workings will be critical to their longer term success.

"How do we stop the 'turf wars' and get people to collaborate across the division or department silos?" -- SVP

Businesses are designed to be collaborative within an organization, in order to compete without. Yet, far too often internal competition is the norm.

The normal process starts off simply and rationally. The business's overall goal is subjected to the rational division of labor and broken down into smaller goals such as marketing goals, financial goals, manufacturing goals, etc. .

These goals are then rationally backed by rewards of which their are not enough to fully go around. A scarce resource and scare reward environment is generally the result. This leads to irrational competition and silos between the very functions or units that are supposed to be collaborating with each other.

As a consequence, much of the organizations energy goes into internal friction, blame, and self protectiveness rather than towards serving the customer and shareholder.

The Political Savvy Advantage shows how to turn 'silo' defenders into silo linkers thus creating a Win-Win Solution.

Those who learn to use the Political Savvy Advantage™ avoid this internal battling and continue on to make greater and greater contributions. Arrange a seminar today to bring positive ethical solutions to the managers in your corporation soon.

Read the Political Savvy book to determine the needs of your organization.

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Mastering organizational politics through Political Savvy is a proven ethical leadership approach that any organization and any individual can use to both influence positive change in an organization and achieve career success at the same time; even when negative organizational politics are severe.