Team Building
How well are you balancing the strategic and tactical; the new and the old?
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I was attending a meeting with the leadership team of a successful technology company that was growing aggressively. The company was barely keeping up with the execution of the massive number of projects…
Are you tolerating the blame game?
I was speaking with a senior executive in a global company who has a successful division. He described his team in the following way:
“I have great, smart and committed people, but we don’t work…
Are your leaders all in?
Building a high-performance culture in an organization is a daunting undertaking. Anyone who has taken on such a commitment on would attest to that fact.
You are never going to get it perfectly right.…
Are you owning your personal power?
I was working with a senior leadership team of a successful technology company that was dealing with great change as a result of changes in their market and the way their customers wanted to partner with…
Can your team handle tough conversations?
If you want to know how powerful your team is, just see how team members deal with sensitive and tough topics.
Sensitive and tough topics are any subjects that require the leaders and team members to…
Stop having objectives if you are not going to explicitly promise to fulfill them!
All teams have objectives or outcomes, which team members usually believe in, aspire to and want to deliver. However, not all teams have the same relationship with their objectives and outcomes.
Most…
Are you staying on top of your communications?
Recently I wanted to get some additional phone and TV services from my cable provider, so I called them up and after being passed along from one agent to another I finally asked to speak with a supervisor.
After…
Does your team have heart?
As human beings, we need a heart and a brain in order to live. We need most of our other organs too, but our heart and brain seem to represent the two main engines that fuel and shape our survival and…
Are you making THE difference?
People genuinely want to work together in a more authentic, courageous and effective way.
However, even good, well-meaning people often find it challenging to do the right things and behave and act…
Stay real and don’t be blinded by slogans and buzzwords…
The use of catchy slogans internally across organizations and even within individual functions is becoming ever more prevalent. Slogans like: "Winning Together", "New ideas. Better HR", "We deliver results"…
Be careful of the two-headed monster!
Accountability is one of these corporate concepts that could make a great difference in almost every aspect of any company’s culture, performance and business results. Unfortunately, in most organizations…
Are you leading with power or force?
In my work with organizations, I meet many effective managers and executives who have a wide variety of leadership styles and personalities.
Some drive progress in a proactive way and others are more…