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Our values act as guideposts as we navigate our days, weeks, years. We cling to them when we have a decision to make, we bump into them when confronted with something that just doesn’t feel right. Values are not rules in which we abide by, but rather compasses that help us find our way.
Resilience - the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties - is a learned behavior. We learn ways to work through our disappointments and setbacks. This framework affords us an immediate, mid, and long-term view of the impact of our decision.
Next time the rounds of recognitions happen, make sure to recognize at least one employee who has consistently brought these skills to the table.
...However, there are a few I have carried with me and listened to - and re-listened to - whenever I feel a little unfocused. The lessons, anecdotes, and tips are invaluable...
In early stage idea generation or prototyping, it's important to balance your team's brick and balloon tendencies. Make sure you get "out of the weeds", but don’t get "in the clouds" either. This balance is especially important when....
We've all been there: the project retrospective that is either tense and full of blame, or the one that is sugar-coated and not grounded in reality. They are equally painful and equally ineffective. After facilitating at least 50 or so retrospectives, I've found a method that....
How to overcome the groupthink phenomenon? Try some of these simple strategies:
1. Keep team size manageable. No more than 10 people, 8 or less is even better. If you need to do more than one "shift", so be.....
Driving team performance is all about increasing engagement, building cohesion, and developing trusted working relationships. So why do drama, politics, tension, and conflict get in the way of real progress?
Clean up: 15 mins. Reflect: 4 minutes every other day (or daily if you’d like). Send a quick note of thanks: 9 mins. Reassess...
Next time you’re faced with an option - think carefully about whether the scenario calls for communication instead of collaboration (and vice versa). Here are....
Perhaps what I learned the most, unintentionally, was about learning itself, and the importance of a specific kind of continuing education. Here are the top 5 learnings about...
Since there is never really a single moment in time that can display the “full truth” of the organizational network, how might organizations leverage SNA to track the evolutions in an economical way?
Whereas culture guides and constrains our work and integration in an organization, engagement is how we interact with the culture: how we feel about the work...
