Can You Fix a Toxic Culture? Leading the Team You Inherit...

Most often managers are given an existing team. It's very rare you'll have the opportunity to hire in a staff of your own selection. With that said, this isn't necessarily a bad thing as this affords the opportunity to develop and grow your skills as a manager.

Imagine you recently accepted a management position with a staff of 7 individual contributors. The team is charged with delivering high profile initiatives for the company. From your initial review, they're not always working well together or with other departments. In fact, after sharing your vision with the team, their response was lackluster. Your initial assessment is their all marching to the beat of their own drum, delivering what they think is best.

Thoroughly review the article, "Leading the Team You Inherit, Download Leading the Team You Inherit," respond with a post detailing how you will:

• Assess the team's capabilities
• Identify and state the qualities and values you're seeking to reinforce with the team to meet your vision
• Share your action plan for getting the team to work together and accelerating their development

Shape a two to three paragraph response

USE THIS ARTICLE ONLY FOR WRITING , "Leading the Team You Inherit, (BY MICHAEL D. WATKINS on June 2016 Harvard Business Review HBR.ORG)