Get Your Team Unstuck

Aaron is the former editor of ProjectsAtWork.com

  Talent Management   Teams   ProjectsAtWork  

We want to lead teams that are productive, passionate and efficient, but so often the results fall short of the potential. Roger Schwarz, author of “Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams,” shares 8 behaviors and 5 core values that can help leaders and teams adopt a “mutual learning mindset” for greater success.

As a project leader you want your team to achieve great results, but sometimes the team instead delivers a lackluster performance. Strained relationships, overly stressful situations and unproductive meetings become the norm. One common cause is that too many leaders bring a “unilateral control mindset” to the role when a “mutual learning mindset” would get their teams moving forward together toward better results, according to Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and consultant to Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and government agencies, including Hewlett-Packard, the American Red Cross, the World Bank, TransCanada, Chevron and the U.S. Department of the Interior.

“When you use a mutual learning mindset, you achieve your goals by learning from and with others,” Schwarz says. “This means you are open to being influenced by others at the same time you seek to influence others. You see each member of your team as having a piece of the puzzle. Your job, along with your team members, is to jointly put the puzzle …

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