Knitting together your team

by CUES Skybox

by. Lisa Hochgraf

My editorial colleague Theresa Witham is quite a knitter. Check out the photo of Theresa and her son Henry out in the snow wearing hand-knits!

While I’m not particularly crafty myself, I can see how Theresa could get excited about bringing the elements of a project together to create something new and useful. Using the right size needles, a good pattern and–naturally–wonderful yarn, she can create scarves, mittens, sweaters and more.

In his 2012 book, The Synergist: How to lead your team to predictable success, Les McKeown describes how “synergists” are key organizational players who use their skills to “knit” together people with different styles into a dynamic, well-rounded team that can overcome distrust, poor communication and fear of change to produce successful business outcomes.

Keynoting at CUES’ CEO/Executive Team Network Nov. 3-6 in San Diego, McKeown will describe how organizations can achieve predictable success–the kind that can be repeated–and the key role that synergists play in this.

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