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Category Archives: TeamworkDo you know exactly what you want? Do your partners know exactly what you want? Do you know exactly what they want? Over the years, I have been fascinated and focused on the power of outcome thinking. For instance: Why … Continue reading
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A while ago, I had the opportunity to accept — or decline — two new business relationships (one as a board member and one in a business venture). As I listened to my internal dialogue about the two propositions, I … Continue reading Last week Dan Mezick (agile coach, CEO of New Technology Solutions Inc., and AgileBoston volunteer extraordinaire) and I sat down “together” (on the phone) to talk about people and interactions at work. Dan wanted to pick my brain about the Creating Results-Based Teams … Continue reading I 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 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 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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When you greet teammates you haven’t seen for a while, how do you “check in?” Do you have a check-in practice that promotes both personal power and team building? If not, consider using mine. It’s a practice I learned years … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Management Training, Responsibility, Teamwork
Tagged personal power
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Faith that teamwork can emerge in a group is fundamental to successful team building. This essential element of team building can be put into practice in your team. More often than not, a group of people who clearly share responsibility … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Management Training, Teamwork, work training
Tagged faith in team building
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