Good leaders ensure that the team is engaged in sending the right signals. Do you see what is happening around you as your work with your team members? Have you figured out where you fit in and how it supports the team? Does each member of the team address the wrinkles in the process each […]
Read More »What is the attitude of people in your team when they are engaged to reach a goal? Do they seek to dig into the current state and devise solutions? Do they ask questions of each to understand with greater clarity? When the members of a group trust and value each other, they feel free to […]
Read More »In many companies today employee culture is touted as engaging, empowering and collaborating. They misguidingly use the buzzwords to attract talent as they have continuing turnover. When you dig below the surface, you will find not collaborating but maybe cooperating. People are going through the daily assignments, checking them off and leaving the office at […]
Read More »Who do want to work with and what are you willing to create? Being on a team at work sometimes gives each person concern about the other members. Sometimes individuals will hold back until others prove themselves. Trust is slow to build and as a result people wait to work together. They need to be […]
Read More »When was the last time your project didn’t go well, the team didn’t perform as expected and the goal had to be changed, or if met, it took a lot more effort to get there? We should be looking at our team’s collaboration skill. A study was created to see how teams perform. Who performed […]
Read More »When we are in it for ourselves, the team is left to fend for itself and perhaps focus their energy on reaching the goal. Too often the team wanders without realizing it takes the collaboration of each member to bring out the finest performance. Key to success is a focus not only the director but […]
Read More »Sometimes we overlook selected people on the team as not performing to their fullest. Each person is necessary for the symphony or your team lead to the best result ever. Work to keep skills of the team at their highest before the performance is to start. More importantly, the value of each person to the […]
Read More »A good effective community will work together to help each support let go of the past that bars its people from moving forward. The community turns inward to help each person live a better life. Whether it is in a family or organization or neighborhood, removing obstacles to moving forward as a group is a […]
Read More »A group of people’s success will only mirror the intentional involvement of the people gathered. If enthusiasm and desire are put forward by each person, success, no matter the number of attempts, will be secured. People on a team or in the total organization including a family unit, will only exist when their individual faculties […]
Read More »Those who do will succeed. Those who do understand that there is a reason they are together. The team has a purpose beyond just completing a project. A key is to keep the team moving toward satisfying the purpose through effective communication. When each team member uses effective discussions, the team advances to serve arm-in-arm. […]
Read More »In many teams the people show up individually to do their assigned task. They are only keeping pace if they are effective. To stand out the workers must come together, support each other and keep the eye on doing a grand thing. Collaboration happens when each person is aware of the team goal and continually […]
Read More »People who succeed the most take time to reflect, assess and make changes to the days and next steps ahead, even if the process of creating a product or service is similar. How many vehicles, coming off the assembly line, are produced exactly the same way they were produced yesterday? While the parts may not […]
Read More »What happens in your day? You might be instructed to carry out your part of the plan. It has all been lined out for you. Every step that is guaranteed to get to the designed goal point. Everyone in oversight might be bought into this plan. How often are you checking the boxes to make […]
Read More »Will your dream awaken your significance call and give it life? People have dreams. People often can’t remember those dreams. They take little initiative to remember it or to write it down and begin a process to internalize it. They take no further steps to foster it and become passionate about living it. Dreams are […]
Read More »Sometimes people look out from their window and wonder why the world has been against them. They might wish they could break out and reach a long-held dream but things seem to keep them where they are. Do you feel your forward progress has an anchor at times dragging behind you? That anchor is your […]
Read More »What a person can do is only limited by the person in whose mind is the thought placed into action. To achieve your dream or for your team to reach its goal or purpose, one needs to take the external and look inward. What conflicts with what is sought to be achieved? Will you believe […]
Read More »What is your team, e.g., family team, work team, community team, dealing with today? Do they feel short on time, work-life pressures escalating, deadlines mounting, more work demands with fewer people, others on the team not carrying their weight? Do you feel it too? Gaining control of yourself and your day will lead to living […]
Read More »You might be told to think “outside of the box” to think a new way or stop thinking like what got you or the team to the current point. Do you feel that thinking outside is foreign and hard to do? Think back to your childhood through the eyes of a six-month-old child. You knew […]
Read More »Do you find yourself where the day gets by without completing what you want to do? Well, think of what you want to do and see what is getting in the way. Is it another person’s agenda item or yours? Look at the top five items you are doing this day? Which ones are furthering […]
Read More »Do you hear dreams dashed in a single sentence? “I want to build a better future for our youth BUT….” “I want to make a difference BUT….” Why does the great negator enter the conversation and eliminate the dream? Often it is because the reasons not to do something are more important than putting oneself […]
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