Coaching Conversations in 2025
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Coaching Conversations in 2025
Revolutionize Team Dynamics: The Power of Cross-Departmental Leadership
Can sharing leadership roles within your organization revolutionize the way your team communicates and collaborates? Imagine the possibilities when leaders step out of their usual roles and lead meetings in other departments, fostering a culture of innovative problem-solving and inclusivity. We've seen firsthand how this bold strategy can elevate team dynamics, and we're here to share the secret sauce with you.
Join us as we uncover real-world examples of how cross-departmental leadership has transformed client sites, boosting morale and sparking fresh ideas. Learn how rotating leadership in meetings can create an environment where team members feel recognized and valued across the board. This episode is packed with actionable insights that can help you skyrocket your team's performance through enhanced communication and collaboration. Get ready to transform your organizational culture and see results like never before!
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Now, when it comes to cross-departmental communication and collaboration and using coaching, one of the greatest things that leaders can do is to lead the other leaders' departmental meetings. It sounds backwards, right. What if leaders were to share agendas, share challenges inside the departments and had other leaders lead their team meetings? Not all the time, maybe. Once Recently I was speaking to a board at one of our client sites and one of the things that was really amazing and I did not know that this had occurred, because they said, yeah, the CEO couldn't make it and he had the chief operating officer lead the meeting. We had never seen that done before Now.
Speaker 1:I, on the surface, did not think it was a big deal and then, as I thought about it, I'm like wait a minute, that is a big deal. See, when you show up, it changes the dynamic of the meeting. So when a leader from another department leads a team meeting for non-direct reports and says what do we need to do to improve our cross-departmental communication, the team members are now talking to one of the sources in terms of the base of the question. So think about sharing the leadership of cross-departmental meetings. It sounds crazy, yet when leaders have done this at some of our client sites. They will come back and say the dynamic completely changed. So when we get our people together, doing rotating peer-to-peer conversations, when we have full department meetings with multiple departments and leaders get up and acknowledge other team members not on their teams, but maybe another leader's team and then lead other leaders' departmental meetings, communication and collaboration will skyrocket.