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Team Leadership Tips: 7 Top Tips for Leading Teams
A team as a collective can deliver much greater results than any one individual could. A key component in any team is the leadership of the team. So what are my 7 key tips when it comes to leading teams? Tip 1: Have a clear vision If you don’t know where you are heading, how […]
Continue readingTeam Working: The Power of A Common Goal
When leading workshops, training or speaking about teams, I often get people to think about what the key characteristics are of the best teams. Without exception, having a common goal is one of the first things that people tend to highlight. So why are goals seen as so powerful when it comes to team working? […]
Continue readingTeams: 5 Barriers to Team Success
Highly effective teams can achieve extraordinary results for the organisations that they serve. Achieving success for the organisation leads to greater personal success, and achievement. Yet in truth, team success is not guaranteed. So what are 5 common barriers to team success and what can you do to avoid them? Barrier 1: Fuzzy outcomes If […]
Continue readingTeam Success: How To Get The Right People On The Team
It is often said that you have to get the right people on a team with the right blend of skills, experience, knowledge and personal attributes to deliver success> So how can you get the right people on the team? Determine what you are trying to achieve A big influencer on who you […]
Continue readingDeveloping Highly Productive and Highly Positive Teams
In all walks of life teams exist to get results. Getting results depends on teams being both productive and positive. Teams can be highly productive running at 100 miles an hour but have low levels of morale. On the flip side they might be highly optimistic but never get anything done. So what are essential […]
Continue readingCreating the Conditions for Effective Teamwork
Teams are a collection of individuals with complimentary skills who are seeking to achieve a specific result or results. It might be to reduce wastage, improve throughput, increase sales or better determine project costs to name just a few. Effective teamwork relies in the conditions being created that facilitate effective teamwork. So what areas require […]
Continue reading5 Tips For Making Teams More Effective
Effective teams are capable of delivering exceptional results. So what are my 6 top tips for making teams more effective? Tip 1: Focus on performance Give the team a real performance challenge to address rather than setting up a committee to talk about an issue. Tip 2: Give them a clear purpose Avoid […]
Continue readingTeam Working: The Power of Using Real Life Comparisons
Delivering a training course recently, I was really impressed how one group used real life comparisons to illustrate some of the characteristics of the best teams. As an example, one pointed to one of the reasons a choir works so well is that everyone has a very clearly defined role. Team members in business teams […]
Continue readingThe pillars of team success
Teams exist to deliver results and when they do it well they deliver much more than any one of us could do individually. Pillars are the foundations that contribute to success and include: Having a common purpose or goal High levels of trust Good communication Positiveness Proactiveness Strong results focus To learn more about leading […]
Continue reading6 Benefits of Team Working
We all have experienced times when we were part of a great team and there are other times when we struggle along in isolation. You might even have heard the phrase Together Everyone Achieves More Of course talking in abstract about teams and actually leveraging the potential of teams is often a whole lot different. Perhaps when you think about it that […]
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