What makes one team more effective than another?
This is a question I’ve seen leaders wrestle with across industries, teams of various sizes, and around the globe. A team may have the most talented people on paper, yet their performance and innovation results are suboptimal again and again.
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By Whit Mitchell
No team can succeed without trust. It’s the driving force that creates an environment of commitment, connection, and respect that ultimately helps a team succeed and go the extra mile.Read More
All Business Experts, April 2015
Have you ever been on a high-performing team? I mean truly high performing, where the synchronicity of all members is so fine-tuned that it feels effortless the harder you push?Read More
Hospital Uses Employee Morale, Leadership Program to Increase Profits by $4.5 MILLION
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Patrick Lencioni is founder of The Table Group, which is a management consulting firm that specializes in organizational health and executive team development. He has written a number of books that I think every business executive should read. One of my favorites is entitled “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”. In it he describes what a healthy team looks like and, on the flip side, what a ‘dysfunctional’ team behaves like. The 5 characteristics of a dysfunctional team are:Read More
You don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to understand how these pop culture icons show up in the work place.
Captain Kirk is the risk taker, the rule breaker, the impulsive person of action who thrills at the idea of going “where no man has gone before.” Without him, the Enterprise might never accomplish so many interesting, pioneering missions.Read More
I attended Buy Idaho’s 27th annual meeting October 17th in Boise, Idaho. The program featured keynote speaker Skip Hall, former head football coach of Boise State University. Skip has been recruiting, building and developing winning teams and leaders for over 40 years. His presentation, “Coaching the Doctrine of Excellence”, focused on successful business practices.Read More
Excellent leaders know the importance, power and leverage of receiving the best ideas from each and every member of their team. It is in the context of the interchange of ideas that often the best and most creative team solutions emerge. The methodology we follow at times, however, works against achieving this end. Think about your own process for assuring the highest level of participation from each member of your team.Read More
We use this metaphor to describe the elephants that live among our teams in the workplace. They’ve often been present for so long that we’ve learned quite adeptly to navigate around them, leaving them in tact and untouched. This has, by the way, at times been quite difficult due to their growing circumference juxtaposed to the fixed and growingly constrained size of our office space. Read More
I love baseball; always have. I grew up playing it every spring and summer. I looked forward to the first day of ‘spring training’ and regretted the last day of the summer season. I was fortunate enough to play it at the college level. I watch it regularly from the professional level to the Little League World Series.Read More