Team collaboration reflects the ability of your team to function cohesively. Your team becomes a real team. When you stop and think about it, most teams are teams in name only. Most of the time, they are a group of disharmonious individuals with homogeneous professional experience. They are hired to sell, to account, to engineer…. [Continue Reading]
3 Steps for Team Collaboration
Is it a Playbook or a Cookbook?
Co-creating Playbooks for your team provides the guidelines for extraordinary business growth, expansion and sustainability. There’s a difference, however, between a business playbook and regarding that playbook as a prescriptive cookbook. Anyone who has watched an NFL football game understands that the team has a plan of “what that game is supposed to look like.”… [Continue Reading]
Are You a Humpty Dumpty Leader?
The Humpty Dumpty Leader didn’t start out that way. It’s just that in-house stuff kept getting broken and people were called in to fix them. I’m not talking about fixing broken light bulbs or servers, either. How many consultants have you brought in to your company to “fix things” over the last three years? How… [Continue Reading]
The Small Business Leader of Sheep
A small business leader of sheep isn’t necessarily a good shepherd. These folks tend to hire people who will be docile, complacent and non-controversial. These are Figurehead leaders. They give orders – directives – to others. They expect their instructions to be followed. Your employees are an amazingly agreeable lot, aren’t they? They’ve got your… [Continue Reading]
Are you a Leader of Minions?
Are you a Leader of Minions? Your job title says you are leader. What’s your self-assessment of your leadership style? Are you certain the folks who work with you have the same assessment? If you like being a Figurehead Leader, everyone working for you may be going through the motions from 9 to 5. If… [Continue Reading]
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