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Foster High-Performing Virtual Teams with Activities That Create Culture

Dec 10, 2020 | Team Coaching, Virtual Teams

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

Nov 20, 2020 | Team Development, Virtual Teams

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

Oct 8, 2020 | Leadership Tips, Workplace Culture, Workplace Culture Tips

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

Sep 16, 2020 | Team Coaching, Virtual Teams, Workplace Culture

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

Sep 1, 2020 | Leadership Tips, Team Coaching, Workplace Culture, Workplace Culture Tips

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

Aug 25, 2020 | Team Coaching

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

Jul 21, 2020 | Team Coaching

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

Jul 9, 2020 | Workplace Culture

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

May 14, 2020 | Wellbeing

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

Mar 24, 2020 | Team Coaching

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

Mar 20, 2020 | Wellbeing

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

Mar 12, 2020 | Virtual Teams

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

Feb 12, 2018 | Leadership Tips

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...

Leaders Intentionally Shape Organizational Culture to Succeed at Strategic Change

Jan 24, 2018 | Leadership Tips, Workplace Culture Tips

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...