What Makes a Great Leadership Team? | Gallup Management Journal

Came across this at What’s Best Next from What Makes a Great Leadership Team? at Gallup Management Journal, and thought it was another helpful understanding of balanced leadership teams.

As we worked with these leadership teams, we began to see that while each member had his or her own unique strengths, the most cohesive and successful teams possessed broader groupings of strengths. So we went back and initiated our most thorough review of this research to date. From this dataset, four distinct domains of leadership strength emerged: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and Strategic Thinking.

Gallup chart of the four domains of leadership strength

There are so many models of leadership in the world, but many of them agree on the concept of plurality of leadership, and individuals within the team excelling in particular giftings and skills.


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