8 ways you as a team member can do your best work

Showing up prepared and ready to offer your support is valuable in every team. You, the person on the team, has the responsibility to do your best work and contribute your ideas, intellect and expertise.

Here is a list of to-do items that will make you successful working on project teams.

Early Childcare Team-Development Day

  The above image is from a staff team-development process. Working with 120 Early Childcare staff from various locations, academic levels, and accountabilities. In attendance were everyone from teachers, to teacher aides, to administrators, to support staff, etc… Our achievements for the day were; Develop skills in communicating clearly and directly in a supportive, respectful … Continued

Processing for Reciprocity of Inquiry or Team Building De-Brief Questions

I love questions; asking them, answering them, writing about them, thinking about them, driving Christine (Wife)crazy with them. Whether you are a facilitator, coach, leader, person in the toilet-stall next to me – asking 2 to 3 questions beyond the point of where we agree develops understanding of each other. Additionally asking questions beyond the point of agreement creates a reciprocity of inquiry…and that is FACILITATING AWESOMENESS!

Leadership thinking Carnival style!

This month I participated in a Leadership Carnival. Where several leadership bloggers, leaders and thinkers share blog posts. Below are the posts from July;
Eliminating negative has a greater impact than accentuated positive. The challenge is to eliminate the negative in a way that does not create more negative. Michael Cardus presents Eliminating Negative to Increase Positive posted at Create-Learning Team Building & Leadership Blog.