What does it take to become an admired and well liked leader? We aspire to become this type of leader, so how do we achieve that? One possible approach is to try to…
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Like many highly committed teams, they had a long list of deliverables and each person worked long hours with the hope of achieving them. At the end of each month they got together…
Throughout my career I prided myself on sticking with it, come what may. If I said I was going to do it, I would make sure it happened, by sheer will if necessary. …
My heartfelt sympathy goes out to everyone who has been directly impacted by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico on Tuesday September 19th. I travelled to Puebla, approximately 20 miles from the…
As our world becomes more complex, the need for cross-functional collaboration is increasing. This is illustrated by the emergence of Big Data and Analytics. The creation of new business insight requires a high…
When working with others our default action is to form a team. After all, teamwork is good and everyone works in teams. It is interesting to compare this idealized view to the reality…
I have rarely worked on a team where all its members have been highly engaged. The ones where I have stand out as tremendously enjoyable experiences and I can describe them in great…
The fifth and final conversation center of our team performance model is Measure. When I ask leaders how they judge the performance of their team, they typically talk about business results. They are…
We have reached the fourth conversational area in our model of the conversations of a high performing team, ‘Manage’. You may be thinking it is good to be back to a familiar topic. …
Now you know the type of team you need, it is time to start recruiting the team’s members. As mentioned, in my experience most team members are ‘voluntold’ to join the team by…