Quality Team and Leadership Development
Systems-drive-behavior and there is no special ‘leadership personality’ … Within any team when someone is great at their role people see them as a leader.
Competence = Comfort = Observed Leadership Behaviors
Are you a Scientist or an Engineer?
There are three lines from recent reading and research I’m doing that keep haunting me and have made me explore my frame of thinking and consulting. How do I approach team building; as a scientist? as a engineer? In what ways might I serve to create a bridge for teams and managers to understand their … Continued
Mastering Organizational Complexity Organization Development and Executive Coaching
This advanced program will assist Managerial-Leaders in developing the skills needed to successfully master the management of organizational complexity.
Praise for High Performance Team Building Workshops
We had a GREAT time completing the 2nd offering of the High Performance Team Building Certificate Class – offered through the University at Buffalo School of Social Work Continuing Education Department.
Change in Companies and Teams is Not Only Possible it is Inevitable
If a team seems un-movable, don’t just push harder and scream about how obstinate they are being…resistance is futile. Use the inevitability of change to slightly shift their shared perception from stuck to change.
Falling from Big Enough to Too Small in competence for the role
The most frightening thing about having a manager that is “Too small” and creates under-performance and dis-engagement is the gradual reduction in level of competence of the subordinate team, which creates broad departmental under-performance and increased dis-engagement. The department begins to sink in scale, matching the competence of its manager.
Experiential Learning, Deming and Neuroscience! I Just had a Geekgasm
If you want to transform a system, you can’t get there with the same knowledge you built it with. The neural structure that built the system, and it sucks, is going to re-build it so it sucks worse…. There is no system transformation without biological transformation within you.
6 Coaching Questions for Teams
These 6 questions can be cascaded through the organization. Creating a shared language that is known and expected from everyone in the department.
You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons
Few companies know to deal with hiring and promotion mistakes and they repeat them, knowing that they are creating failure and organizational chaos.
Unfortunately the employee, that is now in the role that they cannot adequately fill, is usually punished by termination or sent to training.
You cannot teach a tadpole to be a frog by giving it jumping lessons.
People cannot be taught, coached, developed and/or trained to work at a level of complexity above what they are capable of doing.
Mastering Organizational Complexity Yes you can thrive and flourish in complex work environments
The complexity and change of your work is increasing. You are constantly having to organize information available to you, and determine how to best use that information to make choices. This is a skill that can be developed and a process that can be implemented into your organization, team and leadership.