From the course: Managing a Cross-Functional Team
Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Conflicting work styles
From the course: Managing a Cross-Functional Team
Conflicting work styles
- Leaders need to manage a variety of work styles on a cross-functional team. This can range from people wanting to work in groups versus wanting to work individually. Some want to work late, work early, some want to work from home or from the office. There may even be preferences around using email or voicemail. Outside of doing any sort of massive assessment of how the team works, just sit down and have a working session. Discuss work style preferences. I worked with one cross-functional leadership team where they were having problems in their day to day interactions. We sat down and said, what's everybody's preferred work style? We looked at how they like to communicate, when they like to come to work, where they like to work. One of the big surprises that came out of that was this client had a large email culture. Everybody was on email all the time, except one member of this team. He hated email, especially on weekends. Everybody was kind of surprised by that, and they then put…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.