Team Building Stakeholder Analysis

image credit Project Stakeholder Plan Having a project stakeholder plan ensures that you will approach the influence part of your project with as much organization and attention as possible. Time invested early in stakeholder planning can save you countless hours of dealing with resistance, redoing work, missing targets, etc. WHAT TO DO: Use the worksheet … Continued

Are leaders motivations different than others?

Are leaders’ motivations different than others? No, they are not. The term ‘leader’ is another way to say a helpful person when you need help. I had this discussion in Buffalo, NY, with a series of workshops focused on leadership. Above is a picture of the chalkboard at the end of a seminar called “What … Continued

Solution-Focused Team Building Activity

Solution-Focused team building can construct progress for your team. Below is an overview of solution-focused and the framework for the team-building activity. I’ve used solution-focused coaching with management teams to share with the leadership a way to discuss strategy, progress, and regress in a manner that creates next steps to increase what is working and … Continued

Personal Accountability to Change Within a Team

One problem with team-building assessments is that most data gathering and evaluation questions are passive. It seems as if team building happens to people, as opposed to people being active players in their work lives. Working with a Managing Partner in a law firm, he shared his frustration like this, “We work hard to make … Continued

How to Create and Sustain Team Performance

Presentation slides from a team building session I facilitated with six nonprofit leadership teams. The objectives were to develop a team-based process to maintain the gains in infrastructure and team development, plus value propositions using data.

Corporate Team Building the what, so what, now what

Moving through the what, so what, now what process occurs with every team building day, the connections and learning from the day lose power and focus when people get back to work and return to their day to day tasks.

Accountable for Authority needed Others can help Others can hurt

Consulting on organization development often requires me to develop processes and tools to support people to understand better what they are accountable for, what authority is needed to complete what they are accountable for and how other can hurt and help them in completing the work.

Strategic Re-Focusing Planning Agenda

I was asked to guide a company and it’s board through a strategic re-focusing process. What is strategic re-focusing? I asked the same question.