Thomas Samson
Senior Consultant and Founder
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"Samson forms teams in such a manner that every team member understands
what their individual and team objectives are. Key to the teambuilding process is his emphasis on forming a collaborative
approach to problem solving. Then he institutes a culture of individual commitment to accomplish specific objectives. And
finally, he puts in a tracking system to monitor personal and team accountability.
"Samson says, “The most important thing of all is to: (1)
get people to participate in figuring out how they’re going to accomplish a goal, and (2) then break it down into small
action steps that they personally can commit to make it happen.
"Samson further refines his process by saying that the key to
success is developing the processes at the team level that allow team members to: (1) take a goal from a higher level and
to convert that goal into sub-goals that they then pass down to their members, and (2) develop specific strategies that individual
members of that team will execute. "
From "An Interview with Tom Samson" published in the Business Champion by The Fullerman Group
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- Experience:
More than three decades of executive management experience:
- CEO and/or President
in four early stage companies.
- President and CEO
of a distribution software company serving more than 1,200 office products dealers and buying groups.
- Partner
in a national accounting firm for over a dozen years. Lead numerous national programs and initiatives.
- Partner
in a national executive search firm
- Philosophy:
"Long term organizational results are achieved from the combined efforts of teams and individual team members who
trust, focus, collaborate, commit and hold each other accountable . . . all facilitated by team leaders who know how to do
the right thing at the right time for the right reason."
- Primary focus:
Partners with executive leaders of senior management teams to implement processes and support tools that address the
key success factors of effective teamwork.
- Interests:
- Mentoring future leaders of business teams.
Since 1986 has been a member of the SMU Cox School of Business Associate Board which mentors MBA students.
- Continuing research into the tools and
processes executive team leaders can utilize in applying the critical success factors of effective executive and senior management
teamwork.
- Adjunct lecturer leading courses focused
on managing teams in the MBA program at the SMU Cox School of Business.
- Speaking Engagements: Mr. Samson is
a frequent speaker at meetings of business leaders. His topics cover a wide range of team formation and management issues
including team leader development issues. His presentations are customized to the interests and needs of each audience. He should be contacted directly
at tfsamson@teamworkdynamics.com by meeting organizers interested in focusing their audiences on issues of teamwork and team leadership.
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