We’ve all encountered situations where executive decisions become a recipe for disaster due to an overflow of opinions. Join the podcasters as they discuss how to navigate this situation as a consultant.
Leadership
The right champion pays dividends
Over the last few years, I have witnessed many organizations invest in understanding their business, users, and customers prior to building their digital products. They start at the highest level, in what we call the innovation phase, drafting a concept from...
Building a Great Team Part 3: Norming & Performing
In the third and final part of our series on building a great team, Nick Bruecken joins us to talk about coming together as a well oiled machine that gets it done and how to keep it that way.
Building a Team Part Two: Storming & Norming
Part 2 of a 3 part series on building a great team with Nick Bruecken.
Storming: Now that you have formed, how do you finish “Storming” to get everyone settled into their roles and how the team will operate, and then move on to “Norming” where the team is operating as well oiled machine?
Building a Team Part 1: Forming & Storming
Part 1 of a 3 part series on building a great team with Nick Bruecken.
Forming and Storming: How do you field and form a team to get everyone on board and heading in the right direction and ready to work on your project or initiative? As a team member, what can you do to help the process along?
Organizational Change Management
We are joined by one of our seasoned project and program expert Jim Rathe to talk about how to make change happen in an organization.
Creating Special Moments
Creating special moments for your team to brighten the day and help each other connect. Or just because it is fun.
How to Get a Team Back on Track
Elle, Chad, Peter, and Kyle talk about turning around a team that is not doing so great. Maybe stuck in the mud, maybe drama, maybe some other dysfunction. How do you recognize it, and how can you fix it.
Teamwork: A Partnership Between Teammates and Leaders
INSERT teamwork cliche hereWe’ve all heard the clichés such as, “There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM,” or “We’re all stronger than the sum of our parts.” Some leaders will throw around trite expressions, while others will simply throw a bunch of people in a room and tell them to...
Motivation: The Key to a Successful Team
Editor's note: If you are a new manager motivating your team can be a hard task that everyone has an opinion on. This is my point of view on how to motivate your team.There's always tomorrow“Tomorrow I’m going to start eating better.” “Tomorrow I’m going to start...
Stages of Building a Team
This post will explain the different stages of building a team to illustrate what I meant by it taking time and being fragile. This will be a bit brief as I have opted not to spend one post per stage and drag this out. At each given stage, I will give a summary...