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Category Archives: communication skillsI don’t know why people seldom end relationships well. Maybe it’s because we all want so much to win — and endings threaten us with losing. Maybe we’re annoyed that we don’t know how to derive any more mutual benefit … Continue reading
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Wow! A second group of IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area AGAIN valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Here’s the results from the first group. Share the knowledge … Continue reading In the first part of this series, 3 Keys to Extraordinary Collaboration – Part 1, we examined three keys to collaboration: Exchange + Expansion + Integrity. Remember, we can’t successfully collaborate until we’re “in exchange.” To be in exchange, each … Continue reading
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Tagged exchange, expansion, integrity, partnering
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In my experience, competition and collaboration are neither opposite ends of a some relationship continuum nor alternating conditions. They are actually complimentary forces. In fact, competition and collaboration are precessionary, that is, each is a naturally occurring, unintended consequence of … Continue reading Wow! IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Check the results from the second group. Download a PDF of this presentation. This … Continue reading To prevent ourselves from spewing judgements and harm in productive relationships, traditional wisdom admonishes to “not judge.” But not judging is an improbable — if not impossible — action for all but the most emotionally and spiritually developed of us. … Continue reading Do you want to learn the four most important principles of team building and how you can put them into action immediately in your team, for results you can count on every time? It’s the most straight-forward approach to building … Continue reading
Posted in communication skills, Leadership, Management Training, Teamwork
Tagged building trust, team agreements, team building
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How do you avoid losing trust in your team? It is as simple as cleaning up all broken agreements at your earliest opportunity, but how do you manage that? If the recipe for TRUST in team building is to make … Continue reading Are you willing to be completely response-able: for yourself? for a family? for a process, team or department? for the entire company? for a church or community effort or project? for a neighborhood or city? for a state for a … Continue reading Everyone says they want to be on a winning team. And nobody ever says they want to be on a lousy team. So how come we end up on frustrating teams much of the time? Here are the steps you … Continue reading |
