Asking Powerful Questions

A major paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside the current paradigm that can only be answered from outside of it.

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Forget About It

Learn the most powerful way to solve the most complex problems.

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Building Effective Teams with Belbin Profile

Individual Belbin profiles can offer tremendous insight into individual and team operating methods. An inventory of Team Role skills, strengths and allowable weaknesses can be used to add value to everything from a stand-alone experiential simulation to the composition of management and project teams. .... more

Building An Effective Team

Before you embark on any kind of team development, it is critical that we understand the implications of the differences between teams and work groups. .... more

Building Teams and Teamwork

Team spirit is the catalyst every organization needs to achieve outstanding performance. Strategic plans, marketing, technology and capital investment are clearly important, but emotional commitment of the people using the tools and executing the plans is what determines whether companies sink or soar. .... more

Building the Culture at Work

Companies, like people, have unique personalities that include: integrity (or a lack thereof), an individual way of doing things, and a particular way of responding to competition and to customers. In other words, companies have a culture. .... more

Characteristics of a good Team/Member

Everyone participates actively and positively in meetings and projects. Team goals are understood by everyone. Individual members have thought hard about creative solutions to the problem. Members are carefully listened to and receive thoughtful feedback. .... more

Processes for Decision Making

Brainstorming is a freewheeling exchange of ideas without judgment or discussion, where team members build on each other's ideas. Done right, five to ten heads are better than one. .... more

High Performance Teams and Teamwork

For the team to reach its full potential it may be necessary to develop the team by helping them acquire some of the high-performing characteristics. .... more

Flying Geese and Teamwork in Action

Observations of geese in passage, show that they invariably adopt a “vee” formation, flying on the same level, equally spaced out but not necessarily along arms of equal length. The important thing seems to be the vee must have an apex – that the leading bird should always have others on either side..... more

High Performance Team Characteristics

Authors Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith have an interesting perspective on high performance teams. The authors studied team work across several companies and base their findings on case studies spanning tough business environments and work challenges. Their findings expose the factors that stimulate high performance in teams. .... more

Motivating Teams

We hear the term often. Generally we associate the word with human behavior, meaning, a state of mind that moves us to action. And even though few of us have had formal training in it, it’s one of those characteristics of life that seems to fit the old adage, “I know it when I see it.” .... more

Power of Teambuilding

The term "team building" has become a buzzword in recent years, and has many connotations. In terms of corporate development, team-building exercises are important not for the immediate experience of the activities performed by the team. .... more

Team Characteristics

A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. .... more

Team Meetings and Effective Facilitation

If you are a manager, leader, consultant or trainer, chances are that you will need to facilitate meetings, events or workshops from time to time.  So what are eight tips for effective facilitation? .... more

Team Performance and Teamwork

When managers or team leaders talk about team performance, one process that is considered synonymous is team building. Team building is often seen as the solution to everything that affects a team. .... more

Teambuilding and Collaboration

Think back over all the team building sessions that you have attended over the years. There is a very good chance that at each and every one of them the facilitators organised your group into teams. .... more

Teams that play together work together

What becomes clear if you look at these characteristics is that most of them are not the hard skills of industry or management expertise: most are attitudes rather than skills. .... more

Working Together as a Team

What would you put at the top of a list of characteristics that make a good team? Perhaps initiative?, trust?, flexibility?, empathy?, leadership?, or effectiveness? .... more

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