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5 key decisions you need to make about your team

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

They affect what your team look like!

The word “Team” means different things to different people.

When I work with team leaders and their teams, I often encounter different notions of what the “team” really is. One team leader may use the word to refer generally to everyone who works under him, while another might refer to a specific group of people.

Even within a team, each member might have a different understanding of what the “team” is; this might even be different from the team leader’s understanding!

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领导者最重要的决定

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

它将影响你的领导方式！

领导涉及做决定。

帮助团队朝向目标迈进的过程中，领导者需要做出许多决策。

但从一开始就有一个重要的的决定是领导者必须做出的。这决定将对领导者本身及他的团队有深远的影响。它将影响领导者如何领导、团队如何与他互动、团队的文化、等。

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制定有效使命宣言的提示

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

这关乎沟通的清晰度！

你的团队（或机构、教会、甚至个人）的使命让你明确知道方向，影响你的策略，并且和团队目的共同是你做出重要决策的基准。

使命宣言阐明了你的使命，让所有相关的人（领导者、团队成员、合作伙伴、目标受众、顾客、等等）知道你们要成就何事。对你和团队来说，它可以提醒并帮助你不偏离航向。对其他人来说，它显明你们与其他团队或机构的分别。

过去二十多年与许多团队协作的经验中，我常看到的使命宣言，有些太模棱两可，以致完全不能给我有用的信息。有些却太过一般，以致任何团队都能够适用。

这些模棱两可及一般的使命宣言，根本就是毫无用处。

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The Most Important Decision of a Leader

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

It affects how you lead!

Leadership involves making decisions.

Getting a team to move towards fulfilling its goals involves numerous decisions.

But right from the get-go, there is one important decision that a leader needs to make. This decision will shape the leader and the team in a profound way. It will affect how he or she leads, how the team interact with the leader, the culture of the team, etc.

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Tips for crafting an effective mission statement

Posted 4 years ago by Richard Lim

It’s about communicating clearly!

Your team’s (or organisation, church, and even personal) mission gives clarity to your direction, informs your strategies and, together with your purpose, forms the basis of all your critical decisions.

The mission statement spells out your mission so that stakeholders (the team leader, team members, partners, target audience, customers, etc.) knows what you do. For yourself and your team, it serves as a reminder to help you stay on course. For others, it helps to differentiate you from other teams or organisations.

As I work with teams during the past 20 years, I often come across mission statements that are either so vague that they don’t tell me anything useful, or are so generic that they could just as well be the mission statement of another team!

These vague or generic mission statements are practically useless.

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