A Simple Idea With Huge Potential

How can you accelerate your team’s performance? Here’s a simple idea that I have used that has paid big dividends. It’s not an original idea, but I’m offering a definition and explaining the focus it requires to add real substance. The idea: Assign a champion to each large body of…

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How can you accelerate your team’s performance? Here’s a simple idea that I have used that has paid big dividends. It’s not an original idea, but I’m offering a definition and explaining the focus it requires to add real substance.

The idea: Assign a champion to each large body of work.

Yes, it is a simple concept, but how you define the role is where the value resides.

Here are some of the attributes I use:

The Champion’s Role

  • Provide thought leadership
  • Develop deep subject matter expertise
  • Create and manage the staffing plan
  • Engage the entire team as needed
  • Steward the budget in the assigned area
  • Ensure the work gets done

Don’t miss the fact that you are still a team. The champion doesn’t own the work; the team does. The champion serves as the encourager, conscience, and more for the team.

If you have used Champions on your teams, what successes have you seen?

 

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Mark Miller

Mark Miller
Mark Miller is a Wall Street Journal and international best-selling author, communicator, and the former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A. Mark’s leadership journey at Chick-fil-A spanned 45 years, and today, he serves as the Co-Founder of Lead Every Day. Mark began writing almost twenty years ago, and with over one million books in print in more than twenty-five languages, his global impact continues to grow.

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