Faster Horses
If Henry Ford held focus groups, people would have asked for faster horses.
Team Building
What is your Team's Stance?
In my work with Senior Leadership Teams, I've noticed that teams respond to their environment in a natural way. Sometimes their responses produce effective, long-term results. Other times, their responses are short-term and reactive.
Compare the following.
Problem-reacting Stance
Tips for Onboarding Seasonal Employees
Today's post is from a guest blogger Kyle Lagunas. Whether you have seasonal employees or not, I think you will find this valuable.
Kyle Lagunas is the HR Analyst at Software Advice. On the surface, it's his job to contribute to the ongoing conversation on all things HR. Beyond that, he makes sure his audience is keeping up with important trends and hot topics in the industry. Focused on offering a fresh take on points of interest in his market, he's not your typical HR guy.
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How to Show Gratitude
There couldn't be a better week to talk about gratitude. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, here are some ideas to show gratitude toward your people.
How Effective Are Your Meetings?
The challenge in many organizations is not just that there are too many meetings, but that there are too many poorly run meetings. As a result people waste time and energy instead of getting "real work" done.
Here is a checklist I use in my strategic team building and team development programs as I observe and provide real time coaching.
Check it out and see how your team is doing.
Structure
3 Ways to Generate Dialogue in Meetings
I often hear leaders say "I want my people to contribute more in our team meetings."
What most leaders don't realize is that limited conversation is often the result of their individual behaviors. For example, I recently attended a client's team meeting and noticed that he would ramble on for several minutes at a time and then ask "any questions?" and without hesitation begin talking again.
And, he didn't even know he was doing it.
Want to generate more conversation in your meetings?
Try these three ideas.
8 Questions
Is your team functioning at its highest level of potential?
Here are 8 questions to help you decide:
Three Challenges New Teams Face
The first challenge that new teams often face is a lack of alignment. Usually happens when goals aren’t clear and common, and when there is ambiguity of roles and responsibilities. As a result team members quickly get siloed in their own agendas and egos instead of being focused on overall team results.
Collaboration Trumps Time Management: Part 2
In Part 1 of this post I mentioned that collaboration trumps time management...every time.
In others words, if you want to do things faster and better, instead of looking toward time management techniques to make 5% or 10% improvements, figure out how to work more effectively with others - on your team, across departments, and within the broader organization.
For collaboration to work, relationships must be focused on open communication. How do you create open communication?
Collaboration Trumps Time Management
Collaboration trumps time management...every time.
We often seek to do things faster and better and as a result look for "time management" techniques for the answer.
The problem is that time management often results in us asking the wrong question - "How do we do what we are currently doing more efficiently?"
Instead...focus on working more effectively with others and you'll find yourself answering these types of questions:
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