Team building is a critical success skill for business owners and leaders. No matter how good they are, there is only so much of an impact one person can have on an organization, especially as it grows. I am confident that a group of focused, committed, and technically competent individuals will regularly outperform any gifted individual contributor. However, harnessing and effectively leveraging the skills of a group of individual contributors is hard work. If it were easy everyone could do it and organizations would function much better.
The Price of Growth: When Your Business Outgrows Your People “What got you here won’t necessarily get you there.” — Marshall Goldsmith One of the saddest realities of building a…
Never Let an Employee Hold Your Company Hostage One of the most common conversations I have with business owners goes something like this: “Ed, if she leaves, we’re in trouble.”…
In the Harvard Business Review article “How ‘Perspective Swaps’ Can Unlock Organizational Change,” author Rebecca Hinds introduces the…
Most teams drown in priorities, meetings, and metrics that don’t change outcomes. 4DX shows you how to narrow…
Instead of treating these important meetings with the professional respect they deserve, most individual participants view them as…
What exactly is psychological safety? It’s a term that’s used a lot but is often misunderstood. In this…
Fostering psychological safety isn’t enough if managers don’t pay particular attention to creating conditions for healthy debate. Innovation…
Employees are drowning in excessive or misaligned goals set by too many external stakeholders with competing needs and…
Nobody sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact, leaders agonize over fostering teams that work well…
The authors of this piece have been studying how organizations can make the right things easier and the…
Getting Along If you lead people, you lead through friction—clashing styles, mixed agendas, and the pressure to hit…
Research has shown that employees with close connections at work are more productive, creative, and collaborative. They’re also…
Being a perfectionist does not mean that you are doomed as a manager. Organizational research on perfectionism is…
Success starts with a clear vision. In this powerful presentation, renowned business growth expert Cameron Herold shares the…
After a two-year hiatus, the annual executive retreat is making a comeback. In theory, the CEO gathers company…
In Metaphysics (Book 1) and Nicomachean Ethics (Book 6), Aristotle made a distinction between expertise, science, wisdom, and prudence. That distinction can provide a simple framework…
Thanks to continuing resignations, many employees’ workloads have increased to untenable levels. There are a few common solutions…
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As…
The TEDx talk by Patrick Lencioni focuses on the importance of teamwork and introduces three virtues essential for…
A large-scale study found that well-being predicts outstanding job performance…In short, not only do happiness and optimism matter…
When teammates leave, it can have a ripple effect. How can you help mitigate further attrition and keep…
Anger and resentment across your team can make an already stressful leadership job feel worse. But how you…
Too many meeting leaders think their job ends when the meeting starts or that they merely serve as…
As the Great Resignation continues, the temptation to hire anyone willing to take the job should be tempered…
Getting to Yes, And How improv builds better teams, faster decisions, and real momentum.Inspired by Bob Kulhan’s book…
New research suggests that the highest-performing teams have found subtle ways of leveraging social connections during the pandemic…
Managers of remote teams who improve their delegation skills can help solve the biggest impediment to their success:…
As we head into the second wave of Covid-19, you and your team may be feeling foggy, cranky,…
Knowing what elements of culture matter most to employees can help leaders foster engagement as they transition to…
Shifting from cascading information to chartering teams can generate the clarity and commitment your new strategy requires. Chartering…
Research on the concept of “collective intelligence” has shown that in many cases, groups tend to come up…
Study after study has shown that it’s not enough to be guided by simple measures of productivity as…
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