Leadership and Teams: The Obama Connection

As a leader, making sure that your team members connect is one of important responsibilities that you may have. A team that is connect means that if an issue arises, then the team works together to solve the issue. One example of a connected team that we have from recent history is The Obama Presidential Election team. I would call it the “Obama Connection” because they used Web 3.0 strategies to connect with supports to not only raise money but also votes.

In reviewing the “Obama Connection”, you can see that they used social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to keep their teams connected with each other and supporters. Is your team as well connected under your leadership? To help you measure your team’s connectivity, I have created a short list of questions that you can answer about you and your team to help you determine your connectivity.

1. Do you have a strategy plan in place to handle communication for your team?
2. Does your communication strategy plan allow each member to communicate with other on the team without having roadblocks that they have to get through?
3. Do the team members understand who is responsible for specific task so if an issue arises they will know who to go to?
4. Do you have an intranet in place so that team members can share documents and information in a protected environment in case they are not in one central location?
5. Have you been using an instant messaging system to make it easier and quicker for team members to communicate instantly with each other about question and answers?
6. Is there a direct tie-in between upper manage or decision makers and your team?

These are just a few of the questions that you can ask yourself when it comes to making sure that you team has a well connected communition strategy plan. Below is a video about leadership and teamwork collaboration that can help you better understand the connection factor for teams.

Teamwork and Collaboration

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