Teams
Workplace Coach: How Facilitators Can Help Teams
One of the greatest challenges facing most leaders today is how to maximize the creativity, quality, productivity and performance of their team. The good news -- help is available. There are professional team coaches and meeting facilitators that can bring in skills and tools to help people work together more creatively and productively.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: When Contracting, Manage Expectations.
Clear contracting is an important process for business success. Contracting involves establishing mutual expectations, negotiating resources (budget, time etc) and developing ground rules or agreements for working together moving forward.
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Leading a team effectively takes special skills
Teams have become critical to workplace success — they are everywhere in business today. Teams offer many advantages, including improved problem-solving capabilities with complex challenges, expanded creativity and synergies resulting in greater overall performance. While the benefits of high-performing workplace teams are well known, leading them effectively remains a tremendous challenge for many managers. Working [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Ground rules can help keep team on track
Many of my clients complain about their workplace teams. They often share common frustrations: wasted time spent in ineffective meetings, a lack of accountability, members not speaking the truth or being unwilling to call each other out for bad behavior. High-performing teams (in business or in sports) maintain high expectations, have clearly understood standards for [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: An effective team is built in stages
Being a member or leader of a workplace team can be a frustrating experience, particularly if your team is ineffective or routinely gets mired in unhealthy conflict. Take comfort in knowing that all teams go through “stages” before reaching a level of high performance. What follows is an outline of the typical stages a work [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Leading a team effectively takes special skills
Teams have become critical to workplace success — they are everywhere in business today. Teams offer many advantages, including improved problem-solving capabilities with complex challenges, expanded creativity and synergies resulting in greater overall performance. While the benefits of high-performing workplace teams are well known, leading them effectively remains a tremendous challenge for many managers. Working [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: A neutral party can facilitate debate, growth
Teams are everywhere in business today. When managed well, teams can increase quality, innovation, productivity, employee commitment, creativity and bottom line results. When teams are managed poorly, however, morale and commitment can deteriorate, resulting in frustration and deadlock. One way to improve how your team functions is to use an outside facilitator. A facilitator’s role [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: How to get the most out of your team
Simply throwing people together and asking them to operate as a team doesn’t guarantee success. There is a difference between a group of people who work together and those who work effectively as a team. A big difference. High-performing teams, though rare, are a tremendous competitive advantage. Developing them is frequently cited as the No. [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Keeping a team on track can be a challenge
Most team leaders understand that focus, participation, action planning and commitment are important for team success — and find managing the “process” challenging. Two common challenges are 1) keeping the team on track and 2) generating commitment toward achieving the goal. Teams are often a group of diverse individuals (with a wide variety of opinions [...]
Continue reading...Workplace Coach: Being a genuine team player goes a long way
Having collaborative skills and the ability to perform well on a team are critical in today’s workplace. In fact, many job descriptions today list “being a team player” as a prerequisite — it is key for success and advancement in many positions. Many companies today have zero tolerance for those who aren’t team players (I [...]
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