Building Leaders and Cohesive Teams Since 1999
13 Minutes a Day to Better Productivity
Productivity increases significantly when we make conscious decisions about what to work on and for how long. Planning allows us to be proactive rather than reactive and work for results rather than filling time fighting fires or just busy with activities. Invest 13 minutes in planning and re-planning your day to stay focused and increase ...
Read MoreWhy You Make So Much Money
Question to Ponder: Why have organizations invested such large sums of money to fund supervisors, team leaders, managers, project managers, regional managers, associate directors, directors, senior directors, VPs, senior VPs, CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, COOs, and CEOs? A very intriguing theme from the book Smart Swarm was the ability of mere insects – ants, bees, termites – ...
Read MoreHow Interim Assignments Can Grow Leadership Capacity
The departure of a high level leader from an organization creates a vacuum of leadership. In rare circumstances a company actually has an up-to-date and implementable succession plan. But for most companies, the succession plan notebook sits right next to the dust covered copy of the strategic plan on the middle shelf of the tall ...
Read MoreLeadership Archaeologist
The interesting thing about people coming together in organizations is that they tend to create a mini society and this society will have its own personality, rules, values and behaviors. Leaders may tend to underestimate the ingrained culture within these mini societies and overestimate their ability to change these mini societies with simple commands, just ...
Read MoreYour Team’s Emotional Strength
Recently, I delivered a speech on emotional intelligence – the ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships – to an audience of senior executives and provided them with insight regarding how they can assess and grow their emotional intelligence ...
Read MorePriming Your Team
You’ve just finished a tough business call with a very rude, obnoxious person. Now you are off to attend your team meeting. Any guess as to the climate you’ll help create for that meeting? Well social psychologists know very well what will likely happen. A team, like an individual, will follow the environmental cues ...
Read MoreSpice up Your Team Meetings
Spice up your ongoing team meetings with two simple practices. Rotate the Seats In many team meetings, especially those team meetings that occur on a regular basis, attendees often sit the same seat every week. Guide a change in energy, perspective and attention by creating a purposeful rotation of seats. Make it Random ...
Read MoreGet Naked to Build a Cohesive Team
How’s the social cohesion within your team? To what extent are you and your team members really enjoying each other and relishing in each other’s successes? Enjoying each other. . . now there’s a concept! How on earth could I even begin to enjoy those people who seem to work so hard at making my ...
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