The Performing Team

The "Performing" team has learned the skills of resilience, of self-planning, of self recovery. They're the ones who allow the leader to change the way the leader leads. The leader then becomes the enabler -- the one who makes sure that these people have what they need but doesn't really have to tell them where to go. The team is telling itself where to go. It's not a leaderless team. It's the team itself that has gained the ability to visualize its direction, to plan, to recover from challenges, to be mature. That's what a high performance team has.

So the first phases -- forming, storming, and norming -- absolutely need a leader. The performing team is capable of rotational leadership within it. Every team needs a leader. If nobody steps in to fill the leadership role, then the team will flounder. The leadership role is to provide structure and guidelines for the team. It's not to tell everybody how to do their job. It's to provide a framework for people to collaborate.

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