Great Leaders create Thriving Teams.
“It is all about the people“
True change starts with empowered people.
The real question is: how to become an empowering leader? Click for more
Going from merely managing to leading a team requires building new habits. They don’t form in a half day workshop. Actually, research shows that forming new habits takes around 60 days of practice. Integrate your personal transformation to become an authentic and inspriring leader into your workday, practice the new skills in your real world situations and benefit from the regular check-ins with a peer group sharing your challenges.
Clipper Team System
Beyond managing
When star contributors become managers, they have the opportunity to become leaders.
Embracing personal growth and accepting that leading is as much about leading the team as it is about growing as a person.
Becoming a great leader can be easy – when done right
Continuing brute-force, top-down management is the road to hell – again.
As with all crafts done well, sequence of activities and practice are key to success in leading to high performance.
Leading can be overwhelming
If you don’t create save spaces for true reflection, you lose capacity to lead showing in a lack of empathy.
First time managers quickly realize that relationships with team members must evolve from peer friendship to compassionate leadership.
If you encounter a lack of teamwork showing as:
Struggling to collaborate.
Lacking sense of urgency and results.
Working in silos.
Avoiding healthy debate for true commitment and accountability.
Clipper’s mission is to improve teamwork at all levels using a system distilled in over 30+ years of managing. From personal experience, trial and learning, as well as research by the best academic institutions.
The focus is to enable early career or first time managers have a fast track transition from hands-on, individual contributor-hero to empowering leader of a successful and high performing team.
9 out of 10 team culture improvements fail, because they are not done with the people but onto them. Compassionate leaders understand themselves and each team member at a very personal level to achieve superior results.
Pressure does work – only as long as you press. So, don’t add any further to today’s corporate standard approach of coercing teams, because collaboration, satisfaction and meaning on the one side and tangible results exceeding targets on the other are not a contradiction. They are complements created in the candid interactions between leader and team.
In an online course spanning 7 weeks at 2,5 hours per week, we teach young managers to build the habits of an empowering leader. Starting with how to build trust to creating the magic moments of innovation and understanding only surfacing during healthy debate, managers learn how to develop committed, accountable teams delivering superior results without burning out. Every week, a peer learning session of 5-7 like-minded new leaders offers additional perspective, validation and challenge to master the journey to become a leader every executive wants to promote.
You seek remedy but are not sure about Clipper?
Then, it is time to reach out.
Find out here.
Email: win@clipper.how
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.”
Aristotle Onassis