The First Leadership Reality: Everybody Wants to be on a Good Team

The first leadership reality, “Everybody wants to be on a good team,” applies to all levels of leadership. It is the underlying paradigm with which to make your organization productive. Whether you run a company or a small department in a large corporation, those working for you expect you to do what it takes to make your organization a good team. Once you realize this, then you understand that all the leadership skills that you work on, whether they be traits, principles, practices, etc., are geared toward making you influence your employees in a positive manner to get the assigned job done.

Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Expectations

Have effective meetings, have great communication and have amazing quality of interactions with other people. How? Become aware of the power of Expectations, your own and those of others.

Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #4 Identifying the Fear-based Culture of Your Business

One way to think of a business is that it's a group of people who have come together for a common cause or purpose. For a veterinary practice that is generally to offer services to pets and their owners. So, it makes sense that when a group of people come together that their individual Inherited Purposes also come together to form a fear-based culture of business.

The Role of Continuous Improvement Teams in Lean Future State Implementation

How do Continuous Improvement teams fit in with your Lean initiatives? Improvement teams were introduced as quality circles more than twenty-five years ago. Over time they started to fall into disfavor as companies became doubtful about the amount of effort required coach cross-functional teams to success.

Team Building: Yes - We CAN All Get Along!

Disaster can be avoided! When a company evaluates team player's personalities, encourages the strengths of the player and teaches them how to handle their weaknesses, then everyone wins! The employer, the employee, and the bottom line!

Increase Your Profits by Training Your People

It's always the little things which count. The simple, basic, nitty gritties of life. Ignore them and you risk losing business, credibility, respect, and who knows what else? Pay attention to the details because if you don't, other people may not pay attention to you!

Jack and Marsha - Constructive Conflict in Highly-Effective Teams

Whether it's two people working together or a team of people, conflicts can arise. The highly-effective team often produces a better result when everyone is willing to engage in constructive conflict on the work itself.

Teambuilding by Visiting the Internet

How do you build a team that is already present? The least you want is that there is a commun understanding. How would you achieve that?

Random Word Brainstorming

Traditional brainstorming has the effect of limiting creativity. The random word process forces the mind to dig deeper. Intuition is stimulated, and creativity flows.

Team Building Exercises - Choosing the Right One

A step by step guide on how to select the best activity for a team building session - including how to avoid the most common mistake that people make.

Motivating Employees: Steps For Successful Staff Motivation

Motivating employees is an important task that companies need to be aware of at all times. While staff need to be self-motivated to begin with, there are certain things companies can do to increase employee motivation and make them feel empowered.

Switch on Your Employees - Say an Unexpected 'Thank You'

Unexpected recognition for a job well done is very, very validating for your people. It's how you do it that counts...

Joining an Established Team; Building for the Future

Joining an established team is very difficult. In most cases, team building happens with little intervention - the new team member is be welcomed and given time to bond. However, in some cases the new team member will join a team with issues and where, regardless of the effort they make, they are unwelcome.

Managing Your Team (Part 3) - Who's Dominating Your Team

Whos' talking too much and not listening enough? Who's not giving other team members a chance? How do you lead, control this situation and restore the balance of participation?

Managing Your Team (Part 5) - Who's Guilty of Plopping?

Are the contributions made by one or more of your team members being ignored or, perhaps under-valued? Is this a behaviour adopted regularly by certain individuals in the team? Is the team aware of the seriousness of this and the longer term damage it can cause?