Hybrid work environments offer significant benefits, such as the ability to attract talent beyond local geographic areas, but they also present new challenges for leaders. Managing remote and hybrid teams requires navigating complexities that many have not faced before.

Do you lead a virtual or hybrid team? Are you struggling to lead them? You aren’t alone.

Patrick Lenioni’s book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team lays out an excellent framework to identify dysfunctional teams. Work on The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team flips those dysfunctions into the positive and gives teams a way to move forward productively.

As you reflect on leadership, do you believe any of these to be true?

·         You are either born a leader, or not?

·         You are a leader or a follower?

·         There is a right way to be a leader?

“Nobody puts Baby in the corner.” Patrick Swayze/Dirty Dancing. That quote always makes me smile, and it make me think about what most people might do with their DISC report after their initial training: put it in a drawer. DISC doesn’t belong in a drawer.

We are in a leadership crisis.

I say this often (and I truly believe it). But why? How did we get here?

Why does it matter if my team is strong? I have lots of high achieving people on my team.

Does this sound familiar? Ever heard anyone say that?