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 Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
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]
3 Ways to Avoid Professional Complacency in 2021
Will you avoid falling into a pattern of professional complacency during 2021? Or do you long for a permanent oasis from ambiguous and uncertain scenarios? When I ask this question to colleagues and clients, like you, the answer is: “a little bit of both, please”. Because the professionals and associations I serve seek consistency and… [Continue Reading]
Which Pandemic Business Cases Will You Leverage In 2021?
You have pandemic business cases to chronicle in the New Year. Even if you do not want to think about the marathon of this past year. Start by taking an inventory of all the pandemic business cases you participated in throughout 2020. Because this year you and your teams are on a continuous professional change… [Continue Reading]
Everyone Is An Internal Client Of Everyone Else. Who Are Yours?
If everyone is an internal client of everyone else in your organization, then who are your customers? Each time I ask this question at speaking engagements, workshops or coaching sessions, attendees engage in a flurry of activity. First, they create top-of-mind lists of internal clientele they serve. Next, we conduct the forensic portion of this… [Continue Reading]
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