Elevating What Works

Elevating What Works

Good Leaders Do This

Clarify Roles and Responsibilities in Teams

Lesson 3 of 5 in Initiating Structure

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Ben Baran
May 05, 2025
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What This Means

This is actually about team building–but it doesn’t involve any awkward icebreaker exercises or silly games.

Great teams have clearly defined roles and responsibilities so that everyone has a good sense of how they fit in, what they need to do, and what everyone else does and needs to do.

This helps reduce ambiguity for individual team memb…

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