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  • The Secret to Great Team Performance May Surprise You [Podcast]

    The Secret to Great Team Performance May Surprise You [Podcast]

    The way we have done business in the past–it’s not going to work in the future. The world is volatile, complex… There’s rapid change. We have to change ourselves. It’s not making a change with tech or tools, it’s about the soft things: thanking people, helping them articulate the mission, helping them with careers. We have…

  • How to Build a Team Like the NBA

    How to Build a Team Like the NBA

    If you know me, you know I’m not a sports person. I don’t watch. I don’t follow. It’s not that I have some strong dislike for sports. It’s just that when I stopped doing them in high school, I lost all interest. I can watch them, if I am at a live event or if…

  • Teamwork Lessons from Dragon Boat Racing

    So this weekend I participated in something I’ve never done before. Dragon boat racing. Yeah, I had never heard of it before, either. The gist of it is this: Each team has 16-20 paddlers in the boat at once, plus a drummer You’re racing a straight course against other teams First boat to cross the…

  • Preventing Conflict in the Workplace

    If asked, many HR professionals would say that preventing conflict in the workplace is one of their key job duties. However, I’d like to step back from that well-known requirement and re-examine the need for civility at all costs. Let’s kick off with a quote: It means caring a lot about not offending someone. Let’s…

  • Introducing My TeamType

    Tomorrow is the first day of March, and I hereby designate March as National Teamwork Month. Yes, I have randomly declared 31 days as my own unofficial holiday. No, I won’t change my mind. Why? Because we all need a good reminder of what the power of teams can accomplish. And what better way to…

  • Team Difficulties-Why is this so hard?

    I’ve talked here before about teams and what makes them work (or not). Have you ever stopped to think about why it’s so difficult to get teams working in the right direction? Different people want different things from their work. Different personal styles/personalities. Interpersonal communication preferences. Power struggles and competing agendas. Politics. Lack of participation.…

  • The Biggest Killer of Teams Is…

    I have been studying the performance of several teams both within and outside our organization, and over time I have seen one key predictor of success or failure for team performance: community. When community is lacking, or in more common terms, when the team members don’t have care and concern for each other, failure will…