Agile leadership and resilient teams download
Resilience is often expressed in deep commitment to “co-elevating” the team rather than seeking individual recognition or success.
Through our research and experience coaching leading executive teams, LHH and Ferrazzi Greenlight have identified four critical characteristics of resilient teams: candor, resourcefulness, compassion, and humility. To start, leaders need to ask some tough questions to determine whether their teams have what it takes to qualify as truly resilient. That has left many business leaders wondering what they can do now to build resilience. Unfortunately, for every Apple there are just as many - if not more - examples of organizations that discovered, after the pandemic struck, that their teams did not have the necessary skills. The pressure for teams to be resilient is more urgent than ever as we’re entering a new year with new quarterly targets and milestones. “I think that instinct, that resilience has been an essential part of how we have navigated this year.” “Even though we’re apart, it’s been obvious this year that around the company, teams and colleagues have been leaning on and counting on each other more than in normal times,” Cook said. Announcing Q4 results that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations, Apple CEO Tim Cook identified resilient, high-functioning teams as a key element that fortified the company in the midst of the pandemic’s unprecedented challenges.