What role do you take during meetings? Will you be the first person to collaborate? Or do you tend to dominate team meetings? More importantly, how do your instincts and actions enhance or impede not only the rest of your team’s mindset? But also their subsequent actions as well as project outcomes. Does your team… [Continue Reading]
Do You Collaborate or Dominate Team Meetings?
Does Working in Silos Prepare You to Lead Strategically?
If your goal is to lead strategically, consider the value of repeatedly seeking new jobs that keep you working in departmental silos. New job. New silo. Same old thing. Depending on your organization’s size, these silos can be big. Yet no matter how far you “travel” to collaborate cross-functionally, you never leave the silo you… [Continue Reading]
Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which… [Continue Reading]
Are You Professionally Understandable To Everyone?
Being professionally understandable is a huge part of how you show up to work each day. When people do not understand what you are saying, they cannot figure out what you want. Or what you really need. Or even what you both can accomplish working with each other and for each other on behalf of… [Continue Reading]
Is Professional Elitism impacting How You Lead Teams?
Ouch! That’s an in-your-face question to ask yourself, isn’t it? And if you feel defensive, it is understandable. After all, you feel you do all the right things. Following processes and steps outlined in guidelines and playbooks. Yet, projects go unproductively sideways. And team synergy slowly evaporates. In addition, unproductive rework and reduced efficiency remain… [Continue Reading]
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