Team Building
Are you investing in building your team?
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If you were the manager of an NBA basketball team, or any professional sports team, with the best stars in the league, would there be any dilemma or doubt in your mind about the need for a coach?
Would…
Agreeing to disagree is always a cop-out
Too often I see the following scenario: A team meets to discuss issues that are critical to the organization’s success. The conversation goes on and on without resolution, as different people have divergent…
Is “good” good enough for you?
Here’s my high-level assessment of corporate and business teams:
Many, perhaps most are dysfunctional or mediocre.
Some are good.
Few are excellent.
Unfortunately - this report card doesn’t…
Is your team’s communication candid, transparent and courageous?
Most teams are not good at having the tough, uncomfortable conversations, even if it is necessary for a really important cause. Furthermore, most people are not good at giving honest and direct feedback…
How to build a High-Performance Team
A lot has been written about this topic. I would like to keep it simple.
For me a high-performance team is:
A team that is truly cohesive, aligned and trusting.
Everyone has each other’s…
Are you willing to go beyond your comfort zone for the good of the team?
I cannot tell you just how many times I have witnessed the following dynamic in organizations: Managers and employees sit around a meeting table, nodding in agreement as their leader explains the plan…
How well are you balancing the strategic and tactical; the new and the old?
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…