A Leader’s Guide to Working Together, Forming Deep Relationships, and Achieving Business Success
We are told that success is about strategy. Or innovation. Or just plain luck. Executive coach and author Whit Mitchell learned that success actually comes from your ability to work together and form deep relationships. Whit first learned this lesson when coaching crew at Dartmouth in the early 80’s. Read More
Two employees had already left the company — both women. Morale and sales were lagging. Nine months later, the team’s level of trust and communication are higher, turnover has halted, and their sales ranking and happiness factor has climbed on their team.Read More
I’m often asked, “How do I teach my team to work together more effectively?”
The Problem. Joe led a team of talented professionals, but noticed that communication differences often made it difficult for these smart people to work together. One team member who focused on procedures and safety had difficulty listening to and respecting another team member’s out-of-the-box, creative thinking. Other differences in work ethic, attitudes, and approaches to problem solving also created difficulties on the team. That is when Joe reached out to me and asked, “What can I do to help my employees appreciate each other’s value and stop undercutting each other?”Read More
A big “thank you” to Team Dynamics Expert Whit Mitchell for his webinar presentation on what it takes to build a dynamic, elite and winning team. Whit shared his thinking and methodologies on three of the seven key traits that are found in every elite team – Talent, Trust and Coaching.Read More
We are very excited to “officially” introduce the Smart Assessment Tool™ (SAT), an affordable new way to deliver DISC throughout your entire organization.
SAT is an exclusive, online, video-based solution utilizing the DISC behavioral assessment to help individuals, teams and organizations boost productivity and improve interpersonal skills.Read More
Posted by Sean Gaffney, a former collegiate and professional soccer player. Along with Dr. Carol, Sean is also a principal of Six Dimension Sports Consulting.
Get Back! Get Back! Back post! BACK POST! COME ON, YOU HAVE TO MARK THAT MAN! As I stood on the sidelines yelling, again, getting frustrated, again, and looking around at my teammates also yelling, again, I had to take a second to stop and think. Read More
Jonathan, the president of a mid-sized university, invited me to observe one of his advisory board meetings because he said he was “stumped by the team dynamics going on with this group.”
As I observed their meetings, I noticed that when a team member, Mike, spoke, no one seemed to pay attention. But a few minutes later in the meeting, when another team member, Kim, made the same point using different words and another example, everyone seemed to be engaged, agreeing to move forward with the idea. Read More
The concept of attention has been defined as focused mental engagement on a particular item of information. Items come into our awareness, we attend to a particular item, and then we decide whether to act (Davenport & Beck 2001, p. 20).Read More
Normally, I blog about learning, training, knowledge management, etc. But in the current climate of business doldrums and fear of further decline, I hope you’ll indulge me as I wander into the mentality of poverty for a while. Bear with me. It will take four blog posts to get to the point of my ponderings.Read More