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.

Meeting Zombies How to Avoid Your Brain Being Eaten

You have been a meeting zombie, I have been a meeting zombie…We both are guilty of spreading the Zombie virus to others in the meeting room.
How can this be avoided?
There are a couple things.
Meeting Zombies thrive on apathy and mistrust

Management Quality and Productivity competent leadership

“Come, spend a day with us, and do for us what you did for Japan, that we too may be saved.”

It is not so simple. Few people in top management in America understand their responsibilities and know that they must serve a life term on quality and productivity from now on, under competent leadership.

Innovation Process for Managerial Leadership DTC Operator

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training, Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company.

High Performance Team Building Quality Tools for Quality Teams

People on Teams MUST have clear lines of accountability and authority. Knowing who does what-by-when within the prescribed standards and limits. People on teams NEED to know what they are individually responsible for and what others expect from them. People on teams NEED to see the connection of the teams, their own, and the organizations goals for the work to be valued.

Quality Tools to Discover Solutions: Nine Windows

Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.