Team-Building
Making "Teamwork" Work
Tips on How to Work as a Team When Faced With a Large ProjectWhen a big project arises, the first task is preparing your department for the task at hand. Read more →Making it Up
I Make Stuff Up.I read this on my son?s T-shirt as if I?d never seen it before, yet on this particular morning, it looked much different and even made me laugh at the simplicity of it. Read more →Making Time for Team Building Relationships
If you have ever been in conversation with someone who was being continually interrupted, how did you feel? I guess you felt pretty devalued by their lack of focus on you, what you were saying and the issues you were discussing. Read more →Manage Expectations to Reduce Everyday Frustrations
Just today my partner Russ and I sat down to hash out a nagging frustration. It took a little bantering back and forth [not without some rise in emotional tension I? Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 1) - Is It Struggling?
I've lost count of the workshops in which Communication (internal or external) is the number one issue that groups and teams highlight.The singular most effective way to deal with team problems is to talk about them. Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 10) - Why Assumptions Are Dangerous
From the day we are born, we begin our own unique development process which can be influenced by our parents, our siblings, our teachers, our friends, our church, our faith, our readings, society and so on. Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 2) - Encouraging Reluctant Team Members
The next few articles will look at different traits and characteristics that individuals bring into the team environment. For those that are less than productive, they must be dealt with as soon as possible. Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 3) - Who's Dominating Your Team
It's not the first time I have been facilitating a workshop or group session and as early as the first break, other members of the group have asked me to deal with someone who is dominating the session. Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 4) - Who's Exerting a Disproportionate Amount of Influence?
Why is it that, in a team setting, some participants seem to hold more influence than others even though they may not be team leader?Where does this influence or power come from? Read more →Managing Your Team (Part 5) - Who's Guilty of Plopping?
In some ways this article is a continuation of Managaging Your Team (Part 4) in that 'influencers from a position of authority or expertise may be guilty (consciously or unconsciously) of ignoring inputs from team members or, just as damaging, putting down / under-valuing the contribution made and the contributor who made it. Read more →← Previous Next →
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Aphorism
Charlie [Munger] and I would be glad to take any money management organization in the world managing more than $US10 billion and we would be willing to bet that their aggregate investment (performance) will be poorer than a no-load, very low cost index fu
Warren Buffett