From the course: Building High-Performance Teams
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Building bench strength and succession plans
From the course: Building High-Performance Teams
Building bench strength and succession plans
- One of the great things about leading a high performing team is that people grow and they grow very quickly. The problem with that is they're always looking for new opportunities and you're always at risk for losing someone either to a promotion within the organization or they move on to bigger and better things outside of your company. So as a leader you need to be prepared for these changes because over-reliance on an individual player can be extremely dangerous. For example, my dad was in the Navy and he was on a submarine, and they had a badge that was called the Dolphins. And the way it worked was, every individual in that crew had to know and be able to perform the jobs of every single other crew member. Because think about it, on a submarine if someone got injured or went down you couldn't have the rest of the crew not know how to perform that role because it put the entire organization at risk. Because there are huge benefits to cross-training. First, it builds redundancy…
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