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In the digital economy Leaders need to cultivate a winning team culture where teams create value even remotely in anetwork organization with personal power they lead people with position power they manage work they know thedifference So they manage by head to enforce order and lead by heart to stoke moralethey adapt their leadership style to the work situation They nurture relationships with the right enablers to promote agile teamperformance not individual performance to do it well they hone three critical skills empathy engagement andexecution In the previous episode you learn the five victims of a winning team and the key rolesthat team leaders perform to build winning teams that go beyond results How meaning turns theteam into a wellspring of purpose and vision for the ability to practice idea meritocracy How results demands the teamto become a source of focused human energy to achieve organizational goals How process requires the team tobecome a vital link in the value creation chain by achieving results repeatedly and consistently how grove mandates the teamto become an institution of continuous learning for resiliency and how mindset mandates that the team becomea vibrant specimen of the corporate culture In this final episode you will explore and understanda pattern of behaviors for the leadership style manage by head lead by heart to build winning teams Wewill arrange the behaviors in a framework called P CDC A short for plan coordinate docheck act to survive and thrive in the digital economy You will need to build and develop adigital organization Your organization will need digital talents people who are able to practice idea meritocracy and work in harmonywith others They will execute processes on their leaders who strive for operating excellence by doingthings in the right way Their team leaders comply with the five victims of a winning team Theywill need purpose driven senior leaders who strive for strategic excellence by doing the right thing They understand the fourfocal points of business excellence in the digital economy orb can help your digital team leaders understand the parallel EDC A work cycles called E CDC A short for plan Coordinate Do Check Act We willuse B CBC A as a framework with which to prescribe a leadership style based on best practicebehavioral research We will help you enforce order for process excellence and stop morale for people excellence by learningthese best practices You can explain your business and prescribe the seven key elements of your organizationin three time frames the past the present and the future Your mission articulates the presentWhat keeps you busy now That's the business that you are in Your vision articulates thefuture What is your ambition for the business What's your dream with the day The past measures resultsmission inspires the relevant strategy that is embodied in your product scope your market scope yourgeographic scope the technologies that you will use and the ways that you will win customers Strategydrives your effort to engineer the technical side of your organization mission justifies your choiceof values What are the important things that your people need to pay attention to When executing strategy values driveyour attention When you influence the human side of your organization policy alignment refers toyour ongoing effort to enforce strategy to ensure that the organization's structures systems and key managementprocesses promote agility and efficiency Style achievement refers to your relentless effort to instill values to cultivatethe desired behavioral norms for sustainable business results The arrows crossing over from both sides represent the need to ensuretheir congruence Strategy drives the context for patterns of management leadership and work practices valuesinfluence decisions concerning organization and policy design Ultimately the technical and human sides of theorganization will converge to impact the quality and sustainability of business results Achieved your chief executive officer faces twinchallenges the challenge of external survival and the challenge of internal integration Your CEO rallies digital seniorleaders to strive for strategic excellence to do the right thing Your CEO sometimes assisted bya chief operating officer rallies your digital senior leaders to strive for operating excellence with the digitalteam leaders to do the thing right People are real the organization is not real The organization exists onlyas a juridical or a legal entity It exists only in the minds and hopefully the hearts of itsmembers How do digital leaders engage their digital talents They see and deal with the two sidesof the work situation They apply the science of management On the technical side they manageby head they apply the art of leadership On the human side they lead by heart the framework forprescribing the right leadership style for digital team leaders will also reveal their distinctive ways ofthinking and doing things Our framework starts by distinguishing between the management process executed by the digital team leaderand the business process carried out by a team member the work cycle for a business process thatseeks to maintain consistency against an established standard starts with a team member performing tasks on certain inputs to deliverthe desired output according to auto boss or standards What we say on time on budget on spec on regulationstandards deviations on the output If any trigger a feedback loop to check if something was not rightwith either the way the task was performed or the quality of the inputs used the answer triggerspreventive or corrective actions standard do check act Walter Shubert's seminal work on statistical quality control gave usS DC A when a breakthrough is required a goal not a standard kicks off the business process Joseph Duran'swork introduced P DC A for plan do check act this way of looking at the work ahead aseither a standard or a goal is the first distinctive skill of a digital teamleader The perspective distinguishes the ability to apply the control mindset needed to maintain standards with the breakthrough mindset neededto achieve goals Digital team leaders shift from one mindset to the other As required by thework ahead For simplicity we will just use P DC A in the ORBS frameworkfor leadership style An effective digital team leader executes management process P DC A in step with the business processP DC A being carried out by a team member under supervision in our backs wereplace the team leaders management process P DC A with the word coordinate coordinate refers to the hierarchical work relationshipbetween a team leader and team members The second distinctive skill of a digital team leaderis to choose between the two modes of interaction with team members Coordinate refers to the firstmode called group interaction It refers to the supervision carried out by the team leader during virtual onlineor offline team meetings Our framework we use P DC A to refer to the one on one interactions thefour eyes dialogue digital team leaders choose which type of interaction to use under given circumstances As a matterof convention we refer to B DC A for interactions that take place during dialogues withindividual team members and coordinate for interactions during team meetings together They become a framework calledP CDC A parallel work cycles Just to be sure always remember that coordinate has its ownbuilt in P DC A that is carried out in group interaction mode The third distinctive skill ofa digital team leader is they don't just manage they lead they not only enforce SDC A and P DC A process excellence they stop morale by setting an exampleof commitment and compliance in fulfilling the fight becomes of a winning team to manage by headYou will learn a set of values and behaviors of competencies of planner coordinator instructor evaluator and problem solverThese competencies will address the technical rational demands of getting work done by your teamto lead by heart You will learn the competencies of an inspired a motivator a coach a catalyst anda mentor These competencies will address the relationship emotional demands of dealing with people at work In this finalepisode you learn that the unique style of a digital team leader consists of a frameworkcalled P CDC A parallel work cycles and three distinctive skills First use standard Duche Act toenforce standards with a control mindset and plan do check act to achieve goals with a breakthrough mindsetSecond supervise the P DC A of team members one on one and coordinate the P DCA of all team members as a group Third it build winning teams managed by head to enforce processexcellence with the competencies of a planner a coordinator an instructor an evaluator and a problem solverBleed by heart to empower people excellence with the competencies of an inspirer A motivator a coach a catalystand a mentor Congratulations You have just completed the digital leadership playbook manage by head lead by heartbuild winning teams