By Michael Holland - The team is not the problem. The team itself is not dysfunctional. The team didn't wake up today and say hey, I'm going to be a dysfunctional team. The team is simply a label being placed on a group of people who together create a entity that can enable tremendous success [...]
By Michael Holland - It's not your fault that you're not really an effective leader. You've put your time in to get educated. You've worked hard to move up into the ranks of management. You've put up with those bad bosses and countless ridiculous corporate directives and still delivered on the work you're charged with [...]
By Michael Holland - Teams, teams, they are everywhere. Many think that just surviving together through the drudgery of the workweek makes the group a team. Many think that having a moniker – the senior leadership team, the accounts payable team, the special super-secret project team – creates a truly cohesive and functional team. The [...]
by Michael Holland - There comes a point in time when leaders begin to lead other leaders. They have several people below them who are guiding teams or departments of their own, and they can see the breadth of their empire spread out before them, with all their resources working together to achieve the goals [...]
by Michael Holland - Change is happening all the time. Modern theory on change tells us we will work through a fairly typical pattern of denial, despair, acceptance and then hopefully engagement with moving forward. Think of it as a big U curve with despair at bottom It’s our visitation to the valley of despair [...]
by Michael Holland - Manager Matt is two years into his 1st tour of duty as a leader. He’s survived the dark days of learning to manage on the fly with new situations when everything was new to him. He’s been through handling performance reviews and slow staff meetings, handled performance challenges and un-engaged peers, [...]
by Michael Holland - In the movie Moneyball, Manager Billy Beane looks to rebuild his dismal baseball team with a limited budget and therefore limited opportunity to acquire expensive talent. He decides to gamble on a methodology to look deeply at what types of players and activity he needs to be successful, which brings him [...]
By Michael Holland - Great leaders learn the art of crafting the story in which employees can place themselves. The story has historical underpinnings, heroes, villains, a bit of drama, obstacles to overcome and a goal to be achieved that is just beyond the capabilities of the team but is within reach. Great leaders give [...]
This 60-minute online workshop helps individuals become better teammates. Participants will use The Five Behaviors® Personal Development profile to learn about their tendencies as a teammate and explore how these tendencies effect the way they engage with the five behaviors
It’s the end of the second quarter of the year. Have you accomplished what you planned for the first half of the year? Most likely not. This has been one of the most unusual 6 months most of us could have ever imagined. It’s time to step back, evaluate where you are, consider how our [...]
