A Simple Idea With Huge Potential
A Simple Idea to Accelerate Your Team’s Performance How can you accelerate your team’s performance? Here’s a simple idea that I have used that has paid big dividends.
A Simple Idea to Accelerate Your Team’s Performance
How can you accelerate your team’s performance? Here’s a simple idea that I have used that has paid big dividends. It’s not an original idea, but I’m offering a definition and explaining the focus it requires to add real substance.
Assign a Champion to Each Large Body of Work
The idea: Assign a champion to each large body of work.
Yes, it is a simple concept, but how you define the role is where the value resides.
Here are some of the attributes I use:
The Champion’s Role
- Provide thought leadership
- Develop deep subject matter expertise
- Create and manage the staffing plan
- Engage the entire team as needed
- Steward the budget in the assigned area
- Ensure the work gets done
The Team Still Owns the Work
Don’t miss the fact that you are still a team. The champion doesn’t own the work; the team does. The champion serves as the encourager, conscience, and more for the team.
If you have used Champions on your teams, what successes have you seen?
Mark Miller
Bestselling author and longtime Chick-fil-A leader, Mark spent his career building leadership systems at scale. His books include The Secret (with Ken Blanchard), Culture Rules, Talent Magnet, and Win Every Day.
