Summit Team Building

At Summit Team Building we specialize in helping organizations and leaders build high-performance teams. Sometimes we work  organization wide on culture , collaboration and  communication , sometimes we work with individual  teams  to help them figure out how to bring out their best, and sometimes we work with  leaders and leadership teams  to help them determine how to be a great leader and builder of teams. In this blog, I will focus on the development of a leader into someone that consistently builds high performance in teams and the individuals within those teams. There are 6 elements critical for a leader to focus on to build high performance. Other elements will come into play, but this is the place where it all begins. Read more  Team Leader Training

Leadership  is often seen as a title bestowed on a person who has risen above the norm. These people are looked up to and guide their ‘team’ in good times and in bad. The challenge is that if we only look to people with the title of the leader than we are missing out on the value that can be accessed from the vast majority of people who are not leaders in the title. Leaders are critical in helping others become high performance. They are our coaches and our mentors. They motivate and inspire us and hold us accountable. They are very important people and it is elitist to think that only people with the title of leader can help us in these ways. If we look beyond  leadership  as a title and look at it more as a way of being it becomes much more universally attainable and empowering. Generally speaking, leaders are proactive, analytical, and decisive. Followers (everyone who is not a leader) wait to be told what to do by their leader. The challenge in this is that...