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.

Strategy for Leadership Development

Effective leadership development is too important for the present and future success of a business to be left to the human resources department. It is a core activity to grow leaders.

3 Ways to Handle Conflict on Teams

All teams have conflict.
Team conflict can be a positive thing, if it is able to move the team forward. Team conflict can be a negative thing, if it holds the team back.

When conflict happens, deciding whether to Deal With It; Give In; or Hold Out; is a choice that you must make.

Partner Connection Team Building Activity

Partner Connection – Variation of Infinite Loops TeamBuilding Activity.
Outcomes & Objectives:
Creating connections
Learning from experience
Solutions thinking

One Person Must Be Responsible For The Work

If more than 1 person is Responsible for completing the goal, they all have valid arguments, they all are doing what they should be doing….and the because they all are Responsible for the outcome and want to do their best work it causes role confusion.

This may be fixed, somewhat resolved, if we have a single Responsible person…and that Single Responsible person, if confused, had access to the project manager for clarity on the goal.

Work is Selling We are all in sales now

Work is selling and we all need to focus on persuading others to assist us in completing our work. Managers, especially, need to work to uderstand other perspectives. Plus an understanding that looking for certain personality traits in employees is a waste of time.

Corporate Team Building and Time Management Case Study

Objectives:
– Develop a shared understanding of the companies future and goals extended 2 to 5 years.
– Skilled-Knowledge in prioritization and time management of manager’s specific areas of business and work.
– Team Development, Strengthening the team using the ‘7 Steps to High Performance Teams’
– Identification of where the team currently is, and defined steps to move to high performance.