Team, culture and grip
Building the top team, culture and assurance.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Becoming a Chief Executive
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module examines how a chief executive designs, inherits and leads the top team. It draws on Jon Katzenbach's myth of the top management team, Patrick Lencioni's first team, Richard Hackman and Ruth Wageman on real teams, four common failure modes and Jon Huish's Top Team Development Approach, and closes with a fair sequence for inheriting a team and a practical operating rhythm. This module explores how chief executives shape culture, find out what is really true and build assurance they can rely on. It covers who owns culture, Amy Edmondson's psychological safety, the Croydon and Brick by Brick case, findings from Rotherham, Liverpool, Birmingham and Thurrock, the difference between grip and control, and six sources of assurance every board can draw on.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish Katzenbach's single-leader unit from real team mode, and choose which mode an item of top team business needs.
- Recognise the four ways top teams go wrong and the design choices that shape how the team at the top works.
- Plan a fair sequence for inheriting a top team and an operating rhythm that separates running today from shaping tomorrow.
- Explain how culture is shaped by what leaders tolerate, and identify the three markers of a healthy risk culture.
- Distinguish grip from control, and use several channels to triangulate what is true in your organisation.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 04Building and Leading the Top TeamThis module examines how a chief executive designs, inherits and leads the top team. It draws on Jon Katzenbach's myth of the top management team, Patrick Lencioni's first team, Richard Hackman and Ruth Wageman on real teams, four common failure modes and Jon Huish's Top Team Development Approach, and closes with a fair sequence for inheriting a team and a practical operating rhythm.38 min
- 05Culture, Grip and AssuranceThis module explores how chief executives shape culture, find out what is really true and build assurance they can rely on. It covers who owns culture, Amy Edmondson's psychological safety, the Croydon and Brick by Brick case, findings from Rotherham, Liverpool, Birmingham and Thurrock, the difference between grip and control, and six sources of assurance every board can draw on.37 min
Keep going.
Part of the Becoming a Chief Executive topic, also sold whole as The top job.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Running the organisation, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, The top job, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Leading the whole, Toward the chief executive role
