Behind Closed Doors

Creating Shared Goals

When managers don’t have shared goals, they tend to optimize their own functions, often at the expense of the department’s overall goals.The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable [Len02] Managers who don’t have shared goals fight for turf and work at cross-purposes. Creating shared goals forces the group to act as a team—or fail.The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization [KS99]

Develop shared management goals as a team.

Creating shared management goals as part of a regular, ongoing management team meeting reinforces that this is a normal team activity—part of how managers work together.

Facilitate shared goal development.

Use brainstorming (oral or writtenThe Workshop Book: From Individual ...