Favorites of 2013 Team Building and Leadership Articles
Favorite Team Building & Leadership Articles 2013
What if the people engaged strategic planning are wrong?
Involving people in the plan will ensure greater buy-in and successful implementation. Sharing neccessary information will keep the plan within the guidelines established. Treat people like adults and if they are wrong, the plan can quickly be adjusted and everyone learns from the challenge.
Thinking Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop Slides and Feedback
The Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation workshop was an excellent combination of information presentation and a set of exercises that helped make the presentation content come alive. It was a very good use of my time.
How can a company increase its mean Therefore increasing the regression to the mean?
Accepting that regression to the mean applies in most areas, what is it that attracts and moves certain companies and people to the higher end and increases the mean?
The Team is Struggling What do we do NOW?
Sometimes focusing on now is what you need to get through your past and future. Plus if someone on the team did not ask, What do we do now? it may have had a different outcome.
Are we afraid to accept that we need management to define goals and expectations?
We’ve become afraid to accept that we need managers to create shared and common direction. While looking for ‘Leadership’ to save the day.
Relevance Enneagram How to Motivate the Team? How can I Stay Motivated?
The areas of the work you find relevant, you will ascribe value to, and be motivated to do more of that stuff. The areas of the work you find to be irrelevant you may still do. And will eventually try to stop doing because they are of little value to you – causing unmotivation.
Team Building and Student Development with Buffalo State College
Outcomes of the Team Building:
1. critical thinking;
2. innovation thinking;
3. the power of friendships.
Instead of Making People More Anxious Make the Learning Easier Resistance to Change
In order for the change to happen the anxiety of learning the new skills and behaviors that the change requires must be lessened. Making the new learning and skills feel natural and safe as possible.
It Is Helpful to Listen Agree Cooperate Discover Different Viewpoints Resistance to Change
Once it was clear to everyone that this is not about me…it is about them and my role is to find cooperation and support their work, the focus and conversation changed.