Team Ingredient #6 Appreciation of Differences: What is natural is to value team members with similar backgrounds and opinions. What is unnatural yet necessary is to embrace differences and creative tensions to generate better solutions and raise the “Team IQ.” Actions: The leader is a powerful role model to the team for how to deal […]
Team Ingredient #7 Accountability & Consequences – What is natural is to be disappointed with the efforts of others on your team, but never hold anyone accountable for the missed “deliverables.” What is unnatural yet necessary is to discuss accountabilities and consequences up front, before a project gets underway and review them throughout the project. […]
Team Ingredient #8 Mentoring Others – What is natural is to get caught up with urgent crises of the day and do little mentoring or training of key employees or colleagues. What is unnatural yet necessary is to take time to train and mentor others to be better performers. Career development, learning and succession planning […]
Let’s talk about cheating AND where that falls on the Derailer Detector and the latest victim. Lance Armstrong, like Marion Jones and now Alex Rodriguez, is back in the news all for performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Different than cheating on your wife; having an affair, this doping is illegal and gives unfair advantages. Armstrong lied […]
Problem: A manager is new to supervising others and describes himself as having a “hard shell” and that he doesn’t need praise for doing his job. During the coaching session he says, “I don’t want to have to pat my people on the back for just showing up and doing their job.” Solution:We talked about […]
Problem: The stress of the holidays and high expectations for how it will go. The result often is feeling resentful, frustrated, let down, ignored, not appreciated or valued. Many people feel depressed as a consequence at this time with unmet expectation. Solutions: We know that when your internal expectations and external reality are different it […]
Problem: I was working with a team on their decision making and teamwork using the MBTI. It came up how the leader was very emergent or spontaneous and scheduled at the same time. When he would have an idea or action he’d immediately get up and tell his respective team members. Often for them though, […]
I was coaching an executive today and we were focusing on the ei Competency Adaptability. Some of the behavioral actions that top performers in Adaptability do consistently are having tolerance for ambiguity and changing your strategies when necessary. As a best practice we talked about: Managing your expectations – if internal expectations and external reality […]