??How Co-Leaders Succeed

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By David Lancefield | February 22, 2024

Co-leadership, where an executive, department, or team leadership role is shared, can result in more creative and strategic problem solving and wiser decision making. But it can also lead to unhealthy game playing in the pursuit of dominance and positioning for the next role, resulting in organizational misalignment, inertia, and confusion. It doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to become a political animal who spends their days looking to outmaneuver their co-leader. Instead, perform this role with integrity, canniness, and positivity, recognizing that it will feel uncomfortable at times. These seven strategies will increase your chances of making your co-leadership a success.

1. Share something of yourself.
2. Ask the other for advice.
3. Develop a shared ambition.
4. Explore gray areas of responsibility.

Discuss who is responsible for what and when, building on the brief you’ve been given. Split this up into:

• Topics: For example, how to improve customer loyalty.
• Functions: For example, sales, product, technology, culture, operations.
• Situations: For example, who chairs which meetings?
• Decisions: For example, which decisions need to be made jointly (overall strategy, major investments) and individually (commercial terms, employee promotions).

5. Establish a process to tackle problems or disagreements.

6. Lean on trusted people for counsel.

7. Proactively support your co-leader.

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