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Foster High-Performing Virtual Teams with Activities That Create Culture
Most anyone who has been in a management position is familiar with tips designed to develop high-performing teams: Clearly communicate your mission, empower rather than micromanage, foster cooperation, resolve conflicts quickly, trust your team members. Of course,...
3 Benefits of Team Development Coaching in Business
Team development coaching can be beneficial in a myriad of ways. When it comes to following the steps to developing a strong team, this process can transform a good team into a stellar one. As a team leader or manager, you may be struggling with combining the efforts...
3 Steps to Change Organizational Culture
In order to change organizational culture, you first need to understand how it is created and maintained. Many business owners or team leaders assume responsibility for the current environment at work, but leadership actually plays a relatively small role in the...
3 Steps to a High-Performing Team in a Virtual Environment
There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Many workplaces have discovered that they can have a high-performing team in a virtual environment, and their overall productivity is thriving. According to a study by Fuze, 54 percent of workers surveyed...
The Secrets to Building an Effective Team
Building an effective team goes far beyond hiring top talent. While talent does go a long way, the secret sauce to successful outcomes lies within an effective team strategy. We’re going to dive deeper than the roles your employees have individually and look at how...
What to do When You Have a Dysfunctional Team
Aristotle once said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and this is especially true for a company’s organization. When all parts of a team work together well, the result is a synergistic effect that is just brilliant. However, when even one member of a...
Why Team Stability is Important
What stage is your team in? Teams that Work: Back in 1965, Bruce Tuckman first described the phases of team development as forming, storming, norming, and performing. With variations and enhancements on the theme, these phases generally have stood the test of time. In...
Working Remotely vs Unlimited PTO: Two Ways of Creating More Engaged Employees
With the appearance of COVID-19, businesses have had to become even more nimble than before. Many businesses shifted employees from the office to working remotely, which has come to mean, working-from-anywhere. Companies that offered this shift in arrangements are now...
Workplace Well-Being: The Next Generation of Employee Benefits Packages
In the not-so-distant past, offering employees health insurance and retirement benefits was adequate for enticing talent to your company. The times have changed. Today, employees look for a more well-rounded package of benefits that focuses on more than compensatory...
Don’t Team Build, Team Coach
Let’s face it, working with teams is complicated. I once was part of an exceptionally dysfunctional team, and it was not only painful but costly to the business and the staff. If we had all been able to move in the same direction, we could have emerged as a market...
Wellbeing Is An Antidote
Author: Lianne Sipsma I am in some way comforted by the barrage of emails pouring into my mailbox under the subject heading of COVID-19. A letter and number combination I did not know just a few days again is now consuming my every waking moment and dictating my every...
Performing as a Team When Everyone is Working From Home
It is looking more likely in the next few months that organizations will have to continue running while many, if not most, of their employees, are working from home because of the COVID-19 virus. Working virtually is nothing new, and a lot has been written about how...
The Elusive Inclusive Leadership Bench Needs a Different Hashtag – not #MentorHer
The new hashtag going around #MentorHer doesn’t cut it. Not that I don’t appreciate the sentiment that there needs to be a focus on being more inclusive in developing leaders all up and down the organization. It’s that women tend to be over-mentored and yet...
Navigating the World in the Wake of #MeToo
Navigating the workplace in the forever changed world (hopefully for the better) can seem daunting to many. Using common sense, honesty, and respect to have mature conversations is the key. Sound easy? Not so much. We've been having conversations at Culture...
Leaders Intentionally Shape Organizational Culture to Succeed at Strategic Change
By Nancy Benthien and Jill Knocke Companies in highly technical industries, e.g. Energy or Technology, are known for their capabilities to engineer solutions to difficult problems such as safely drilling high pressure/high temperature (HPHT) wells or creating...