In my corporate career, time was my most scarce resource. I would fill my days with meetings to make sure I was using every drop. This became my normal way of life. I…
Performance Improvement
In my line of work, I am always seeking proven ways to improve leadership effectiveness. Leadership books contain thousands of breakthrough ideas. I am bombarded by webinars and online programs claiming to have…
It started with what appeared to be a trivial discussion about a metric. My client had picked a key measure, the number of partner organizations. Maximizing the number of partner organizations would help…
I received a great question from Sarah Turner in response to my post, ‘It’s Time to Leave Your Excess Baggage Behind’. Sarah asked if I had any processes to help do this and…
A very common problem I hear from clients is how to hold their staff accountable. Just using the word ‘accountable’ creates negative perceptions. I have heard it described by terms like ‘holding people’s…
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…
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…
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. …
So far in this series on developing your healthy, high performing team I have covered the first two conversation centers, Why and Form. At this point you are clear on your purpose and…