The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™
Why good efforts fail in execution: five cascading communications drop-offs to avoid
The conference room. The classroom. The living room. No matter where you look, you may notice poor communications. That can include a lack of communications, poorly crafted communications that don’t take the audience into account, and communications that are far too one-way. It’s frustrating. Poor communications from the top of an organization can be more…
Read MoreSoft Skills and Hard Work: Four Ways You Can Start Creating a Better Team
Want to create a great team on your own? Good luck! Just kidding. It’s not impossible for one ethical, well-intended, authentic person acting alone to help turn around a team. How? To create a great team, first you have to be a great teammate. Developing a truly strong team that trusts and respects each other,…
Read MoreLeadership Teams Are Team #1
How to recognize your top team to improve workplace culture Every member of the leadership team is an expert. They know their lines of business. They hire and develop their work teams. They inspire their people to greater and greater personal and professional accomplishments. And they fail, time and time again. Why is the leadership…
Read MoreThe Performance Management Process
For any organization to achieve its stated goals, a clear performance management process is vital. However, it’s a process that’s rarely understood, and it’s often applied in a way that fails to produce its intended results — the high level of employee performance that is so important to an organization’s success. In fact, a survey…
Read MorePeer-to-Peer Accountability in the Workplace — You Don’t Have to Rely on the Boss
Let’s talk about the 4th level of the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ — accountability in the workplace. To recap your team’s progress to this point: Your team has become more cohesive and is making great strides in developing trust. They are engaging in constructive conflict and debate focused on key issues and eliminating…
Read More7 Ways to Make Great Team Decisions (Plus 1 You May Want to Avoid)
Making team decisions with buy-in from every team member (even if they disagreed initially) is difficult in the best of times — and impossible in a team that lacks trust. If you’ve reached the third level of the the pyramid of The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, your team has the beginnings of a foundation…
Read MoreConflict at Work Can Be Healthy — Here’s Why Your Business Desperately Needs It
We’re often taught that conflict at work means opposing others, and opposition leads to resentments, rivalries, and unpleasant consequences. That might be true if conflict is carried out badly, gets personal, or is based on petty office politics — motives matter. Carried out in the right way, in a discussion surrounding ideas, engaging in a…
Read MoreTrust in the Workplace — Inspiring Organizations to Achieve Their Best
We’ve all heard that trust in the workplace is critical for any organization to succeed, but we don’t always understand the reasons that it’s so important, nor do we fully understand the consequences that result when trust is lacking. Let’s first look at what, exactly, trust in the workplace entails — we’re talking about more…
Read MoreDemocratizing Team Development & Leadership Training
In my world of organizational development, there’s nothing more exciting than seeing a well-respected organization with deep roots in their community undergo a significant evolution. That’s exactly what’s happening at the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS), as this 138-year-old pillar of the San Diego community takes over the animal services contracts for six nearby cities…
Read MoreChanging Organizational Culture: 5 Ways to Effect Lasting Culture Change in Your Workplace
Changing organizational culture can seem like a battle, like a trudge up an enormous hill with seemingly no end, especially when you’re not sure where to begin. Most HR folks who are trying to figure exactly how to change company culture in a meaningful, lasting way, struggle to come up with a clear method that…
Read MoreLearning from History: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Teams
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Say Yes to Healthy Conflict on Your Teams
FOSTER PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT: When conflict occurs, confront and deal with the issue before moving to another subject
Read MoreLeadership Tip: Willingly Make Sacrifices for the Good of the Team
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Read MoreLeadership Tip: Offer Constructive Feedback to Team Members
When a team articulates behaviors that are destructive to the team performance, individual team members are much more likely to call out unproductive behaviors.
Read MoreLeadership Tip: Conflict is Both Good and Necessary
Conflict is about a focused and productive exchange of diverse ideas. When team dynamics are ruled by trust, everyone is able to engage freely and passionately.
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