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Building a Team Connection the U2 Way
Michael Stallard tells how members of the rock band U2 have demonstrated their commitment to each other over 30 years.
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Use Collaboration to Motivate Teams
Leaders have an array of tools that can foster collaboration.
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Keys to High-Performing Teams
Swift-forming expert teams have the characteristics to be high-performing.
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Two Techniques for Enabling Breakthrough Thinking (on a Team)
To every idea presented in a team, someone will respond, “Yes, but.” To keep divergent thinking alive, require that people say, “Yes, and” instead. Objections stated as facts, such as lack of time or money, are recast as challenges. How can we create time or do it faster?
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The "Values" Value Proposition
We can’t reinvent ourselves, but we can get closer to our core values and attract people who share those values.
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Building a Shared Vocabulary
To build trust among team members quickly, the person who signs the paychecks is not allowed in the room when team members present their values to the group. The person who signs the paychecks returns at the end when the team decides on its core values.
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Leading from the Balcony
A leader should have an eagle-eye view of a team that encompasses more than what each individual sees.
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Horizontal Teams
Most organizations are hierarchical. By contrast, workers in horizontal teams are empowered and mutually accountable.
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Characteristics of Effective Teams
Jan leads wilderness expeditions that include Green Berets transitioning to civilian life and business executives seeking clarity in their lives. Effective teams incorporate three S’s: Selflessness, Simplicity, and a willingness to Slow down to speed up.
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Success Requires Trust
Individual talent can take you only so far. Great things are done with a great team.
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Teams That Are Linked Together Are Unstoppable
People doing similar things at similar times aren’t a team. Climbing teams, on the other hand, are roped together. They link their fates.
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
The best leaders work with people, not over them or around them.
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Characteristics of Growth-Mindset Leaders
Growth mindset leaders love learning. They don’t pretend they know everything. They are committed to helping their people develop. They want to deal with reality, good or bad, because that’s how you learn. They think about long-term growth, not short-term results.
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Reframing Work for Success
Reframing can shift the way people perceive situations and experiences at work—and can mean the difference between success and failure.
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Achieving Smart Goals
Smart goals—specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound—are dumb when “achievable” and “relevant” are overlooked. The individual must see the final result and feel it’s good for him or her.
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Team Routines Are a Double-Edged Sword
Routines help teams to be efficient, but most teams work in dynamic environments. Teams need to abandon their routines when things aren’t normal.
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Set the Mood for Your Team
Leaders set the mood and atmosphere that either helps or hinders team members in achieving their goals.
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Priming for Meetings
It’s prime time! Elena Asterillos explains how priming builds top-notch, problem-solving teams.
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When You Have a Difficult Team Member
When there is a difficult team member the leader usually blames the person. Don’t jump to conclusions. Dig deep for the barrier that is in the way of change for that person. Is it fear? Capability? Seek to understand. It’s your job. You may need to go slow in order to go fast.
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Remote Teams
The digital age is transforming the way you work. Use these helpful tips to determine which team approach best suits the needs of the team and the organization.
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Create an Agile Culture
The iterative process of the agile platform is no longer unique to software teams. Transform your team by using these agile characteristics.
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Connect to Build Trust
Building a team requires trust, and trust is possible only when people genuinely connect with each other.
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The Four A's of Achieve
Actually achieving a plan as outlined can be a challenge, but by practicing the "four As of achieve," your team can reach its destination on time.
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Team Up
A group of individuals assigned to work together does not a team make. Here's what you need to build a cohesive, functioning team.
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Build Your Team with CARE
Building teams takes great CARE, and teams that care are unstoppable.
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Live Event: The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Culture is not something you are—it’s something you do. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? In this session, Coyle unearths helpful stories of failure that illustrate what not to do, troubleshoots common pitfalls, and shares advice about reforming a toxic culture.
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Nail the Where and the Why
With the right essentials and vision, leaders can inspire their teams to accomplish tasks they never dreamed possible.
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Behaviors of Effective Team Leaders
Team leaders that build high-performing teams are both candid and receptive. They tell others what they need to hear, and they want to know the truth about themselves.
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Enabling your Team to be More Externally Focused
More effective teams will focus internally as well as externally, to learn expectations, align their work vertically with the hierarchy, and coordinate their work with other teams and groups.
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What Makes an Effective Team?
To Deborah Ancona, effective teams are more than clear goals, clear roles, good internal processes, etc. which are more internally focused activities. It's also comprised of external activity--what team members do across their boundaries within the team.
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Five Steps to Accountability
To ensure accountability, be clear: about expectations, capabilities, measurements, feedback, and consequences.
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Hot Spots Bring Energy and Innovation to Organizations
Hot spots of energy and innovation are built from cooperation, networking, and an igniting purpose.
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Developing an Inclusive Environment
Developing an inclusive environment requires purposeful action and attitude.
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Taking Your Team to the Next Level
Taking your team to the next level begins with viewing employees as a cohesive, integrated group.
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Team Building
Marshall Goldsmith describes a simple, fast, effective method for building teams.
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Building Peak Performance Winning Teams
Brian Tracy describes the one trait that is highly determinant of one's success in business - the ability to build teams.
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Succeeding as a Team Leader
Successful team leaders demonstrate vulnerability, encourage conflict, love clarity, hold people accountable, and focus on results, not their ego or status.
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The Five Root Causes of Team Dysfunction
Team dysfunction starts with a lack of trust. The absence of trust leads to fear of conflict, which leads to lack of commitment, which leads to lack of accountability, which leads to lack of attention to results.
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Creating High Performance Teams
High performing teams need a well defined, shared goal and feedback with respect to that goal. Teams also need people with the right skills, who are challenged at the right level to produce flow. Culturally diverse teams are especially critical to creative thinking.
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The Secrets of Teams that Deliver
Breakthrough teams have a personal commitment to excellence: they are superior goal setters, good communicators, have high levels of trust, hold themselves accountable, and celebrate achievements.
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The Advantages of Cultural Diversity
Differences in how cultures see things, as alone or interconnected, brings the advantages of diversity to innovation and risk assessment.
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Confrontation On Global Teams
Different cultures express themselves differently, so leaders of culturally diverse teams need to depersonalize debates.
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Practice Perspective Transference
The leader has access to conversations and information that members of the team don’t have. The leader’s perspective is valuable only if it is shared with the team.
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Applying Essentialism to a Team
Ask the team, what is the most important thing we should be working on now? The head of a highly successful high school rugby team uses the acronym WIN: What’s Important Now? Focus on doing the right things at the right time for the right reasons.
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Team Building Without Time Wasting
Marshall Goldsmith describes a seven-step process.
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Building a Great Team: Start with Cohesion and Trust
Teams that have cohesion and trust can solve almost any task.
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What Teams Need to Work On To Be Great
The most important team ingredient is a shared sense that the team is up to something together—that team members are committed not only to the success of the team, but also to the success of each other.
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Two Magic Ingredients for Engaging People
Change communication from one-way—telling people what to do—to two-way engagement. Second, to engage people they must feel valued and included.
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Executives Must Understand Their #1 Team
As a leader you are on a leadership team, as well as the leader of your own team.
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Optimizing Team Performance
Team performance comes from a small focused group that has a clear and compelling purpose, complementary skills, a common work approach, and mutual accountability. Real teams have a shifting leader role.
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Excelling at Team Leadership
When the team members have skills that apply at different stages in the task, a shifting leadership team may emerge, where it’s hard to see which member is the formal team leader.
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Building A Team Through Trust
Peter Leahy believes that teamwork is built on a common commitment towards a particular aim.
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How to Identify and Apply Strengths
Ask team members to identify characteristics they value most in themselves. Those are their strengths. Recognize and deepen those strengths. For example, in a “check-in,” team members announce their strengths and how they will apply them to the issue at hand.
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Shifting a Mindset: Example #1
Joanna Barsh gives the example of a meeting that is going nowhere. You can intervene, but what to do? One mindset is, I’m the leader; I will decide. Another is to ask each person what they think the group should do and why. You can ratify their view or decide yourself.
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Don't Be Frustrated; Be Curious
When the group is not going where you want it to go, don’t get frustrated. Be curious. Ask why. Sometimes you need to tell people what to do, but most of the time you will be more effective asking questions and learning. The group has more experience than you do.
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Building and Leading Effective Teams
Team leaders need to manage both the team and the context surrounding the team.
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The Importance of Trust and Teamwork
Members of a team must rely on, trust, and help each other.
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Managing Teams Means Managing Emotions and Expectations
Setting the right expectations enables leaders to manage the emotions that stop teams from moving forward.
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Characteristics of Successful Teams
The most admired companies and leaders have three characteristics. 1) They are clear about why the task in front of them matters, 2) everyone knows why they should show up for the task, and 3) everyone on the team feels like they belong to the team.
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Building a Great Team
The best leadership advice Nicole Piasecki ever received was to get the best talent in the right seat on the bus (“Good to Great,” by Jim Collins).
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Commitment to the Team is Critical to Success
The best way to show commitment to the team is through encouragement. When he was late for a briefing, his commander didn’t chew him out. Rather, he asked if everything was okay. His commander’s concern for him increased his commitment to the team.
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Visualize Success
Even during the worst of circumstances, taking time to visualize success can give you what you need to achieve success.