Help, I Got Promoted to Team Leader!

Personal Leadership

When I was working in the office of one of my clients last week, one manager passed by and asked if I had time for a coffee. Of course!

She got recently promoted to Marketing Manager and now had to lead a team of 12 people. She was, let’s say, positively concerned and looking forward to this new challenge. However, you don’t learn this at University and there were unfortunately not a lot of inspiring examples in her close environment.

Her biggest concerns were how to manage her time, since she was still involved in her previous role and now had to add being a team leader, and how to manage a group of people towards achieving results.

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Cross Functional Teams / Leadership Teams

In my last post I discussed about the challenges of working together in cross functional teams. Now, even if this is all well established in your organization, there is one functional co-operation that so far I have not seen in any company I worked with.

Why are Purchasing and Sales never combined in one department?

Are these truly two completely different expertise areas or are there huge profit opportunities if they start working together?

Let’s look at it from this perspective.

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Why Working In Cross Functional Teams Doesn’t Work?

Cross Functional Teams / Leadership Teams

If your company is big enough, you have probably different departments for the specific activities and competences that you need to run your business. Sales, Marketing, Finance, Demand Planning, HR, Purchasing, you name it. All perfectly specialized in their area, and, maybe except from the commercial departments, all often operating very separately from each other.

More and more companies however see the benefits of working with cross functional teams. Of course it is no rocket science

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