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…
Performance Measurement
I asked a sample of leaders how often the teams they have either led or been a member of have fulfilled their potential. Their answers surprised me. They were pretty consistent, only about…
A big shift occurred at the end of 2011. In case you weren’t paying attention, 2012 marked the start of a lower rate of US productivity. The chart below shows the trend. You…
“Corporations are victims of the great training robbery”, say Harvard Business School’s Michael Beer and his colleagues in a recent impactful in HBR article. Indeed, I have often experienced this lack of skills…
A big question that often comes up for me is whether I am doing enough. Is this question familiar to you? This has been especially true for me as I work on a…
I recently completed interviews with fifteen leaders across a range of companies, small and large, in a variety of industries. These conversations focused on their experience with teams; we discussed barriers to high…