Peer to Peer Magazine

ASK THE EXPERT A FOCUS ON STRONG TEAMS measure your people against those goals and praise when they do well, reprimand in simple ways when they don’t. Second, define both team and individual responsibilities, work to instill a passion and commitment for the goals and tasks at hand, and establish rules of conduct for team collaboration and clearly defined channels of communication. And third, foster a culture that encourages creative thinking and civil disagreement, and make sure to empower the team to do the work they’re on the hook for. Joy: One of the first and foremost “don’ts” is, don’t be afraid to manage. A young manager who has been promoted through the ranks often finds it challenging to go from being a peer who has socialized with the team to being their manager. She has to be bold about establishing her role as manager and defining the roles of her team members. People like structure. If they know what their own jobs are, they will strive to fulfill them. And one of my “do’s” is, when you recognize a behavior that either needs to be criticized or praised, do it right in the moment. If you miss that moment, it’s very difficult for the employee to later connect the behavior to the reaction — and you’ve missed a valuable learning opportunity. Judi: I always tell new managers to get to know their people. Meet with them individually. Ask what they do, don’t read them a job description. Find out their perceptions of their jobs. Ask what they like and don’t like about their work, and find out their short and long-term goals. Then try to match your projects and goals with what they’re looking to do. That will demonstrate that not only were you interested enough to spend time with them but that you heard what they had to say and are addressing some of those desires by giving them a path to achieve them. Great advice, team! ILTA Podcast: visit the ILTA website under Recordings | Podcasts and find “A Focus on Strong Teams.” Leading Roles by Andy Spiegel Throughout the history of cinema, actors and actresses have portrayed factual and fictional leaders — from lawyers to gunslingers, from housewives to royalty, and from Biblical heroes to everyday ones. Here are a few examples. WOMEN • In “The King and I,” Deborah Kerr teaches the children of the King of Siam in the early 1860s and helps him begin modernizing the country. • In “Alien” and two sequels, Sigourney Weaver leads a fight against deadly alien parasites. • In “Mrs. Miniver,” Greer Garson is the anchor that keeps her family together during the dark days of World War II. • In “On Golden Pond,” Katherine Hepburn lovingly leads her aging husband through daily life as his memory begins to fade. • In “The Miracle Worker,” Anne Bancroft defies naysayers and teaches the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. • In “Norma Rae,” Sally Field is a textile worker who bravely leads efforts to unionize her mill. • In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts is a legal assistant and almost single- handedly brings down a polluting power company. • In “The African Queen,” Katherine Hepburn is a strait-laced missionary who, together with a gin-swilling riverboat captain, takes on the Nazis. • In five James Bond movies, Judi Dench plays the no-nonsense leader “M” (Minister of Defense). • In “Joan of Arc,” Ingrid Bergman leads her French troops against the English in Orleans. MEN • In “Exodus,” Paul Newman is a young Israeli activist who fights to set up a homeland for the Jewish people. • In “The Conquerer,” John Wayne plays Mongol chief Temujin who, after defeating Tartar armies, becomes the emperor Genghis Khan. • In “Shane,” Alan Ladd is a retired gunslinger who straps on his guns one last time to help a family defeat the bad guys. • In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Gregory Peck is a lawyer in the Depression-era South who defends a black man against an undeserved charge. • In “Lawrence of Arabia” Peter O’Toole portrays the Oxford-bred British Army officer who leads the desert-dwelling Arabian Bedouins to overturn oppressive Turkish rule during World War I. • In “A Man for All Seasons,” Paul Scofield plays Thomas More, who stands up to King Henry VIII when the King rejects the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage. • In “Spartacus,” Kirk Douglas leads the slaves to freedom from their Roman captors. • In “Gandhi,” Ben Kingsley leads the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. • In “No Highway in the Sky,” James Stewart is an aeronautical engineer who leads a one-man fight to prove there’s a deadly structural flaw in a plane his company manufacturers. • In “The Ten Commandments,” Charlton Heston portrays two of the most famous leaders of all time — Moses and God. ILTA Peer to Peer the quarterly magazine of ILTA 27

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