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Company Excellence through Matching in Leadership

Matching in team composition and team management

Do you want to put together a successful team whose members
complement each other perfectly? Do you want to assign tasks to
precisely those employees who are obviously well suited for them
based on their qualifications, competencies and personality? Then it
is obvious that matching aspects should also play a central role in
team composition.
The diversity of people is usually a blessing when it comes to
team building. Why? Because, for example, a sales team in which
only dominant and red salespeople meet would hardly function.
And if the creative sparks fly because all team members belong to
the innovative yellows, the team would probably have a hard time
getting into implementation at some point. To put it positively: It is
precisely the diversity in skills, personality, attitudes and behaviors
that allows a team to be put together with members who work
together optimally. Only power-conscious alpha males, only
pedantic controllers, only risk-averse preservationists - that can't
work.
Diversity usually has an invigorating effect. That is why it is right
to provide the individual personality types with tasks that
correspond precisely to their behavior and strengths, and thus to
assemble a team with distributed competencies in which the
strength profiles of the individual members complement each other.

High-performing teams are often made up of people who
complement each other complement each other in their
skills, experience and behavior, in which the degree of
matching is high.

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