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Three Ways Behavioral Science Will Shape the Future of Leadership Development from 2022-03-22T19:01
Summary A combination of global pandemic and a new generation of employees are driving a realignment of the employee-employer dynamic. As people re-examine their work priorities, enlightened CEO...
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Brain Science is Turning Feedback Inside-Out Brain Science is Turning Feedback Inside-out from 2021-05-09T19:50:23
In his article, Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement, Scott Judd, the head of People Analytics at Facebook, observes that “…surveys are starting to look like die...
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The Cost of Silence from 2018-11-11T15:09:06
The role of employee voice in organizations – whether in the form of work-related complaints, participating in decision making, contributing new ideas, or providing feedback – has been topic of ...
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Purpose by Design from 2018-10-28T15:25:05
I enjoy the privilege of mentoring a broad cross-section of people who are at different stages of their careers. One of the most notable trends in those conversations over the past ten years has...
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Predicting Team Performance: Stop Flying Blind from 2018-10-14T08:32:41
Among the many leadership styles researched and written about in the milieu of articles and books every year, one that receives little attention is “high-say-low-do” leadership. While not a styl...
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Aristotle’s Mirror: Reality Undistorted from 2018-09-30T09:31:45
It would be the unusual leader who would admit that they don’t aspire to build energized engaged teams that deliver exceptional performance. Yet, across the leadership literature, research shows...
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What Turns Your People On? from 2018-09-09T14:43:05
Why we do what we do is one of the most interesting, and at times perplexing, questions for behavioral scientists, leaders, parents, and anyone else that deals with the mysteries of motivation. ...
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Sales Team Performance – The Game is Changing from 2018-08-12T14:08:59
How do you continuously improve your sales team’s performance? The traditional answer was to put in place a tough, heroic sales leader who embraced an aggressive sales culture, high-pressure pay...
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Got Purpose? from 2018-08-05T15:16:32
Strengths-based leadership, employee engagement, and growth mindset. Recent years have been fruitful for management guru’s and the consulting firms that promote their ideas. As a team leader par...
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Are You Measuring what Really Matters? from 2018-07-21T17:35:34
When Peter Drucker said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” he was advocating that organizations could improve their performance through better metrics. I would argue that Drucker ...
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Choosing the Dark Side – Why Team Leaders Avoid Feedback from 2018-07-09T03:13:29
“The only way to discover your strengths is through feedback…” —Peter Drucker During my first experience as a team leader, I had a great manager who was way ahead of his time in his leadership d...
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Brain Science is Turning Team Feedback Inside-Out Brain Science is Turning Team Feedback Inside-out from 2018-06-17T07:51:23
Developed and used properly, employee surveys can provide a powerful tool for both predicting behaviors and creating rich, transformational coaching conversations. Unfortunately, most surveys fall ...
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Improve Your Coaching Conversation Game from 2018-06-03T08:17:29
If you’ve ever played the game of golf you quickly realized that there are countless ways to hit the ball wrong, and far fewer ways to achieve a consistently good result. Coaching conversations ...
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Want Performance? Get Feedback. from 2018-05-06T07:38:16
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. Top organizations don’t treat it as an activity to be added to already busy workdays – seeking feedback and proactively responding to it is a habit that f...
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Are You Choosing Mediocrity? from 2018-04-22T10:00:52
In his April 2017 HBR article What to Do About Mediocrity on Your Team [icon name=”external-link” class=”” unprefixed_class=””], Joseph Grenny observed that, “The toughest test of a manager is n...
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Coaching Strategies to Improve Team Effectiveness from 2018-04-15T11:57:22
In increasingly dynamic, complex business environments, helping people develop their strengths, build new competencies, and work collaboratively to deliver results has become a business imperati...
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Article Review: Reducing Team Burnout from 2018-04-01T05:32:37
In his March 2018 HBR article, “To Reduce Burnout on Your Team, Give People a Sense of Control“, the author, Andrew Wittman, observes that team dynamics play a key role in workplace stress. He a...
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Quality Communications Are Key to Your Team’s Success from 2018-03-25T09:43:01
Complex global business environments, and the need for agility in both decision making and execution, is driving organizations towards ever greater collaboration and teamwork as the means of res...
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Why Your Team Needs to be Agile from 2018-03-11T15:01:59
Many teams struggle with a fundamental conundrum: how do you get disciplined execution along with innovative, creative solutions? It often seems that any efforts to improve one-dimension causes ...
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How to Increase Team Performance: Focus on Wellbeing from 2018-02-25T06:25:39
Many factors influence performance and well-being at work, including: professional and personal goals, job design and flexibility, skills and competencies, and perceptions of the fairness and tr...
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4 Steps to Motivating Millennial Teams from 2018-02-18T07:16:59
For organizations in search of talent, people born between 1977 and 1994 matter because a) there are a lot of them; and b) by 2020, their generation will make up 50% of the global workforce. Thi...
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Too Many Cooks In Your Virtual Team’s Kitchen? from 2018-02-04T06:57:09
As organizations become more team-centric, and as globalization drives interaction across regions and time-zones, the use of virtual teams has grown rapidly (SHRM, 2012). For organizations, the ...
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How to Succeed as a 21st Century Team Leader from 2018-01-21T14:51:12
The nature of team work has rapidly evolved over the last 25 years. The decline of organizational hierarchy, and the rise of global, cross-cultural work, have multiplied the challenges of buildi...
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Three Actions to Increase Team Engagement from 2018-01-07T15:28:19
At the start of the new year, people who acknowledge the reality of their waistlines often start their list of New Year’s resolutions with a goal to exercise more. Similarly, many organizational...
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Team Leadership Trends 2018 from 2017-12-24T09:15:59
The reshaping of organizations that began at the turn of the century continued this year at an accelerated pace. How organizations respond and reshape themselves based on team leadership trends ...
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Getting the Right People on your Team Bus from 2017-11-26T02:48:27
I recently conducted a workshop on building highly-effective teams with a group of service leaders and their team members. During a coffee break, one of the leaders and I were chatting about the...
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Unhappiness at Work is Harmful to Your Health from 2017-11-19T07:01:50
About ten years ago I was appointed CEO of a mid-size software company – one that had been the leader in its field for nearly twenty years, but was now struggling. The Board’s assessment was tha...
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Current Research: Lean-Team Norms and Relationships from 2017-11-12T14:57:13
Lean teams are the benchmark for best practice in manufacturing and field service organizations. With their emphasis on autonomy, continuous process improvement, and value creation, the appeal o...
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Team Leadership: Taming the Lone Wolf from 2017-11-05T11:11:58
If you lead teams for a long enough time, you are likely to recruit or inherit a ‘lone wolf’ – a talented, capable individual who has a tough time fitting into your team. Smart, capable, and wil...
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Team Relationships Drive Team Performance from 2017-10-29T12:00:49
A good friend of mine is the CTO at Cloverpop, a Silicon Valley start-up that has developed a revolutionary on-line platform for measuring, accelerating, and improving decision making. Recently,...
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Shift Your Team’s Motivation into High Gear from 2017-10-21T16:12:06
How often have you heard observations like “my people don’t seem to be fully engaged” or, “my team needs more energy”? While the symptoms of a team lacking engagement and energy may be easy to i...
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The Paradox of Team Performance Pressure from 2017-10-15T15:37:55
The same pressures that motivate expert teams - high-stakes and elevated expectations - may also result in behaviors that undermine their performance.
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4 Steps to a Successful Virtual Team from 2017-10-01T15:13:26
All teams face challenges in their quest to be effective. The reality for virtual teams is that they face greater complexity and uncertainty as they strive to overcome the barriers of time, dist...
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Training vs. Coaching: Which Path to Developing Better Teams? from 2017-09-17T14:38:15
During my 25-plus years in large organizations I have participated in dozens of leadership training sessions, along with a handful of leadership coaching experiences. Reflecting on those many tr...
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Gender Equality and Team Performance from 2017-09-10T14:12:18
Aristotle astutely observed that, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Unfortunately, when it comes to diversity and gender equality in the workplace, to...
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Team Leadership Lessons from the Navy SEALs from 2017-09-06T13:28:54
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu observed that the challenge of leading a small army versus a large army is largely a matter of “dividing up their numbers” and “signs and signals”. In modern terms, th...
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Exceptional by Design: Teamwork @ IDEO from 2017-08-27T00:00:24
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of working alongside an IDEO team on a project for a consumer audio company. Two learnings stand out from that experience. The first was the way the IDEO team...
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The Discipline of a Team Turnaround from 2017-08-20T05:48:56
If you aspire to lead, then at some point in your career you will likely find yourself responsible for turning around a troubled team. The trouble may come from within the team, external forces,...
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Google’s Habits of Highly-Effective Teams from 2017-08-13T14:57:47
As one of the world’s most visible and valuable companies, with a corporate motto of “Don’t be evil”, the bar is high for Google in terms of expectations at all levels. The February 25, 2016 art...
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Leading a Cross-Cultural Team from 2017-08-06T04:01:03
Cross-cultural teams have become the norm in virtually every multi-national company and many smaller companies doing business globally. Building a highly-effective cross-cultural team can be one...
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My First Team Leader Role: How I Got it (Almost) All Wrong from 2017-07-30T05:47:08
Despite the number of years, and teams I have led, since my first team leader experience, there are a few memories that come back as though they happened yesterday. I recall the feeling of satis...
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Reflections on Exceptional Team Leaders from 2017-07-23T14:08:38
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” —Aristotle, 384–322 BCE Aristotle’s observation about human behavior and motivation speaks to the essence of leaders...
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Three Keys to Motivation at Work from 2017-07-16T12:26:19
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States Why do we do what we do? Insights f...
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Don’t gamble With Your Team Fundamentals from 2017-07-08T03:28:43
Too many team leaders gamble on the performance of their team without having put in place solid team fundamentals. During my research, I uncovered many reasons for team leaders taking shortcuts ...
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What Makes Exceptional Team Leaders Different? from 2017-07-01T03:08:08
About this blog This is the first of four posts which are excerpts taken from my recently published book, The ONE Habit: The Ultimate Guide to Increasing Engagement and Building Highly-Effective...
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