Recent Comments
- Blair Ingle | Collaboration: It’s Not About Being Right or Wrong by Christopher Avery on Collaboration: It’s Not About Being Right or Wrong
- Team Building During a Conference Meeting: Now That Is Creative « WorkshopLouisville's Blog on Facilitating Fast Team Building and Consensus
- The Collaborative Leader’s Most Powerful Tool: Expansion | Christopher Avery's Leadership Gift Blog on 3 Keys to Extraordinary Collaboration – Part 1
- Johan Lange on Dialog: Stop Working for Crazies
Archives
Category Archives: TestimonialsSome people have a strong distaste for consensus. They say it takes too much time. They describe the painful details of the myriad ways in which group members polarize on issues and then threaten to use their veto power when … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Leadership, Teamwork, Testimonials, work training
Tagged achieving consensus, decision making skills
14 Comments
On September 2, 2011 I was in Ashtabula, Ohio where I lived from the age of 7 into my college years. The high school alumni association called me to be inducted into their Hall of Fame for my work with … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Testimonials
Tagged Ashtabula, Hall of Fame, Harbor High School, Lakeside High School, Ohio
4 Comments
Imagine my delight when I saw Scott Dunn’s twitter post yesterday. I knew my topic last week at Agile 2011 was hot when 212 people crowded into a room with 200 chairs and then stayed energized for 3.5 hours! The … Continue reading Client and colleague Lloyd Glick uses design software for his machine tool business near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He sent me the attached graphic inspired by a heart breaking story. Lloyd explains: Artwork is usually based on a thought or inspiration…… maybe a … Continue reading 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 Can a 14-year-old give a greater gift than to affectionately mock Dad’s work? I’m proudly thinking “No.” Thom cooked up this video idea in June, while accompanying me to a Houston event. He enjoys developing characters and thinks he may want to … 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 Rally Software CEO Tim Miller Endorses Christopher Avery’s Knowledge Team Leadership Workshop Continue reading The January 2009 Ask Christopher Avery is ready for you to listen. Read the questions below to decide if it’s worth your time. Ask me your questions now for next month’s show at AskChristopherAvery.com Here is a “kudos” received soon … Continue reading Here’s a question to ponder: Would you rather be prescient or resilient? “Prescience” means literally (from the Latin) “to know before” as in seeing the future by whatever means. “Resilience” means the ability to recover, to bounce back. The 5-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Responsibility, Testimonials
Tagged Booz Allen Hamilton, prescience, Ralph W. Schrader, resilience, www.leadershipnow.com
4 Comments
|