A Washington DC-based life sciences company functions — and thrives — based on the work of its numerous project teams. One of the company’s most productive and effective project teams recently wrapped up a major project. As the senior team was reviewing their work,...
Team Performance
Accelerate Your Learning with Reflection
By Kevin “KJ” Johnson, PCC. "We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience."- John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer In the early dot-com years, I led a team of web professionals in the creation of what...
Is Your Team Achieving the Right Kind of Results?
It’s no secret that we are enthusiastic advocates of Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™. It’s a proven approach that builds strong, high performance teams. The five behaviors are linked together — one trait builds upon another, starting with...
Applying The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team to Personal Development
Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ has become the most widely used process for effective team development globally. The Five Behaviors approach builds effective, high performance teams based on a hierarchical model of vulnerability- based trust,...
Cultivating Creativity and Innovation: The One Thing You Need
Innovation is a hot topic these days. And creativity is required to support and sustain innovation. In fact, a survey by IBM of more than 1,500 CEOs revealed that creativity was ranked as the number one factor for future business success — above management discipline,...
Meetings: Tips for Speaking Up Effectively
A recent Harvard Business Review article states that everyday approximately 55 million meetings occur in the United States. Love them or loathe them, no one can deny that a great deal of critical interaction, sharing, ideation, and decision-making happen in meetings....
Team performance and Innovation. Four Critical Considerations
Anthony was asked to lead a new cross-functional team at his company. The mission of the team — innovation. Senior leadership felt that the company’s historic reliance on serendipity was not enough to drive future success, and that a more formal, structured approach...
Your Team Won’t Excel (and Your Company Won’t Thrive) Unless There’s Full Commitment
The CEO of a financial services company in metro-New York created a team to explore and recommend a strategy for growing the firm. She assembled a cross-functional group of six highly capable people. The team worked very well together. Research and open and...
Strengthen Your Social Awareness Skills to Become a Great Leader
Kayla found herself increasingly frustrated. Promoted six months earlier, she had a strong sense of herself and her skills. She possessed a clear vision of where she wanted her department to go and what she wanted to accomplish. Kayla was an achiever — someone who got...
Executive Coaching in a Group Setting Achieves Big Results
Lucas is a talented, energetic rising star at his high-tech firm. Analytical and focused, he caught the attention of his CEO who saw great potential in Lucas as an executive leader. The company was prepared to engage an executive coach to help Lucas advance his...