Teams are established at all levels of an organization. Some teams are formed to continue their work indefinitely (for example, members of senior management may be thought of as a team), and some teams are project-based, created to address a specific opportunity or...
Julian’s team was struggling to get its work done. A few months before the coronavirus required his company to work-from-home, the team was chartered and started strong. Team members determined their roles, defined their expectations of each other, and began moving...
One of the fundamental elements of authentic leadership — providing leadership that inspires, motivates, and raises people up — is trust. And one of the core ingredients in establishing trust is empathy. “I Really Feel My Boss Cares About Me” Empathy is the...
How can leaders help their team stay focused and productive during periods of high uncertainty and stress? Work can be challenging enough during a normal work day. When you add the strain of working remotely, online home-schooling, anxiety about the health of your...
Six months ago, Maurice was excited about his new promotion. He had been assigned responsibility for a new company-wide initiative and placed at the head of a 20-person cross-functional department. This was the first time Maurice had ever supervised more than three...
Most of us have now been working from home for about a month. As Zoom meetings and sharing your dining room table workspace with your partner and your 5th grader become the new normal, are you striving to be the best team member you can? Some of the attributes of...
At the end of a quarter, it’s common to pause and assess organizational performance, accomplishments, and progress toward annual goals. As we approach the end of the first quarter of the year — an extraordinarily challenging and stressful time — it is still...
By Gilly Weinstein, PCC. Can you think of a situation, in recent weeks, where you needed to make an on-the-spot-decision? Where you were suddenly stuck, slightly uncomfortable, possibly mid-meeting, with all eyes on you? You know that tugging sensation of arrrghhh,...
Michael thought Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ was brilliant. The Five Behaviors approach builds effective, high performance teams based on a hierarchical model of vulnerability-based trust, engaging in healthy conflict, team commitment,...