How Teams Work Recognizing Resistance To Your Team Project
The success of your team goal and team work depends in good part on cooperation from the people on your team and people across the larger organization.
Team Building Grounded in Reality or Activities?
There is two Extremes in the Corporate Team Building World. 1. Team Building should focus on real problems and be anchored in reality. 2. Activities and Simulations are a waste of time.
How Teams Work is your data persuasive
Getting buy-in on your team project and task from those who you do not directly manage can prove challenging. Here are 5 areas to check your data against for persuasiveness.
8 Causes of Team Stuckness
The more experience we have, more reinforcement of psychological inertia. Once our thinking freezes in place the friction of innovation and change stops.
Are personality profiles effective for determining employee competencies?
You are not a psychologist, you are a manager.
Personality factors in individuals are something that every company seems to want to assess and change. There is a false belief that is only reinforced by management “I have these certain personality traits therefore for people to be successful like me, they must also have these traits.”
Team Building and Change Meeting
I was asked to develop a team building activity & facilitate a discussion on useful + not-useful change at an annual meeting.
Employee engagement happens when we change how work gets done Case Study
Employee engagement attracts-trust when we change how work gets done leading to changes in how people work.
Employee engagement repels-trust when we try to change peoples’ psychology.
Are you here to fix us Is this team building
Team building focuses on the present. What is working well and how can we amplify what’s working.
How Teams Work Influence Strategies
Within teams, in order to complete your tasks, you have to depend upon many people whom you do not have direct authority over to supply you with information needed to complete your work on time, in budget and quality specifications.
Blameworthy to Praiseworthy Perceptions of Failure Within a Team
The intention the other person perceives caused the failure creates a team that finds the effort ‘Blameworthy’ to ‘Praiseworthy’