Expand your horizon to influence and motivate others to actively build cohesive teams.
by Michael Holland During a recent visit to Lake Placid, NY, I was able to see the USA Hockey Team’s Miracle on Ice exhibit. What an exhilarating time, seeing the pictures and watching a replay of that magical game! Without much knowledge, we’d think this team just happened to come together and play their hearts [...]
The single most untapped competitive advantage is teamwork. To gain this advantage, teams must trust each other in order to engage in productive conflict, commit to decisions, hold each other accountable and focus on achieving collective results. The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has a simple goal: To facilitate a learning experience that helps professionals [...]
I often hear about teams that don’t work well together. A leader or manager will tell me about team members that don’t get along, or someone who’s not “pulling their weight” and it’s causing problems on the team. Certainly there are team members who can be disruptive – and other times it’s the team leader. [...]
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I have always viewed being able to touch my toes as an indicator of my flexibility. And occasionally I’ve worked hard enough to be able to place my palms on the floor. Recently I’ve thought that this same level of stretching and flexibility is exactly what leaders need to be doing as they lead their [...]
This past week I had the opportunity to talk with two 30-something sisters and their brother from Pakistan. They talked about the violence in their city; the discrepancy in wages earned by Christians and non-Christians; the common practice of woman having a “relationship” with their boss in order to be paid more; and the night [...]
By Michael Holland Leaders assume that the organizational structure of their team should stay constant until some outside force tells them they need to think about restructuring. Like robots, leaders just work day-in and day-out facilitating meetings exactly the same way, enforcing company policies, playing politics, wearing the same clothes, month after month. [...]
By Michael Holland It is the 5th inning and the team is down 9 to 0 in the national championship baseball game. The coach looks around at his team of teenagers playing in what they see as the most important game of their lives. He’s a talented coach and was a star baseball [...]
By Michael Holland My favorite NFL football team, the Baltimore Ravens, will play in the Super Bowl this Sunday. The team is catching their perfect wave at exactly the right point in time. The head coach, the coaching staff, the influential leaders, and all the players are positioned to follow their playbooks [...]
By Michael Holland Your employee has asked to see you for a couple of minutes. Your instincts jump and your soul is telling you that it is likely the employee is going to resign. The meeting is as you thought; the employee has accepted a new position. This is a great opportunity… for [...]
