Tag: team
In Forbes: 7 Strategies To Help You Build An Agile, Successful Growth Organization
This article originally appeared on Forbes. Most successful leaders are constantly looking for ways to improve their organization’s results and internal environment. It can be difficult, though, for them to identify which of their efforts actually pay... Continue reading
How to End Meeting Madness and Get Better Results
Some of my clients go crazy with meetings. They schedule them back to back, invite a cast of thousands, start late and in disarray, drag on unproductively, and end late without closure. Suddenly, everyone is... Continue reading
How to Use Praise to Help Strengthen Strengths
In the last session of a workshop series on teamwork with an up-and-coming group of middle managers, I led the group through an exercise around an activity that we don’t do often enough, either in... Continue reading
If You Want a Productive Culture, Focus on the People and What They Do
Leading and developing an organizational culture really means leading and developing the people within it. Culture doesn’t change according to your directives while you’re sitting comfortably in your corner office. It’s not enough to espouse... Continue reading
How Strong Culture Makes Everyone Strong
No matter how senior, authoritative, or developmental a leader you are, you can’t manage your organization’s culture alone. You need everyone working together. And although you can discuss culture in detail in the boardroom, that’s... Continue reading
Can You Handle the Truth of a Compassionate Confrontation?
In some organizations, the fear of overt, explicit conflict -- and the pain and disruption that it can engender -- is even stronger than the fear of leaving existentially damaging problems unaddressed. You may have... Continue readingHow to Use Shared Values and Empathy to Defuse Conflict
Last week’s post on workplace conflict looked at the impact of personal differences and style as well as the roles that different individuals might take in instigating or sustaining a conflict. The next step in... Continue readingWhy Conflict Happens at Work, and How You Can Think About It
We all experience conflict on the job. Just the act of trying to coordinate activities with others -- or, actually, any attempt at working together -- can trigger conflict, even if everyone involved cares about... Continue reading