TEAMS ROCK: What does it mean?
Have you wondered why I named my website TeamsRock.com? To be honest, probably not, because we’re all pretty busy with our own lives. Still, it has a significant meaning to me, and to anyone [...]
Want to Build A More Efficient Team? Try KBS
Every team experiences efficiency issues that cause bottlenecks in their process. These issues can occur frequently – daily, even – creating hiccups on the road to team building success. Luckily, there is a remedy. [...]
Teamwork in the Workplace – Know How to Communicate With Your Team
One of the big teamwork challenges for a team leader is communicating effectively with team members. Every team member is an individual with their own personality. Each person perceives, hears and responds to conversations differently. [...]
The Key to Building a Virtual Team: Consistency
Just because some team members aren’t in the office doesn’t mean it’s impossible to create a strong team. There are many methods a team leader can use to create team cohesiveness and ensure peak performance [...]
Team Development: Conflict Around Ideas is Critical to Team Cohesion
One of the most terrifying words in the team development dictionary is “conflict.” Believe me when I say that conflict can be a good thing.
Best Boss Ever: How to Discover and Use the Traits of Great Bosses
How do you want to be remembered as a team leader? That seems like an odd question, yet the truth is that we carry memories of the people we work with throughout our lives. What do we remember them for? Do we remember them for their ability to turn in reports on time? Or for something more? How many of them could have been the best boss ever?
Team Development – Building Trust and Respect With Team Members
For a team leader, feedback is an essential team development skill and key to understanding what’s really going on with the team. It’s important to build trust and vulnerability between all members of the team, including yourself.
Teamwork Skills & The FUD Factor: Guiding Your Team Through the Rapids of Change
Change can be very stressful for a team. It creates what I call the FUD Factor: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Leading your team through these stressful times, with as little upset as possible, is a critical teamwork skill.
Leadership Development: Finding Your Team’s True North
In business, True North means Mission, Vision and Values. It’s the point on the map that your team is moving toward, with you at the helm. You determine the principles they’ll follow and understanding your team's True North is a key leadership development skill.
Weathering the storm: Moving positively through disruptions in organizational development
Management decided to shift some of John’s team to other teams to increase performance of the other teams. This wasn’t an unusual move, however, it meant disrupting the established structure and level of organizational development for the team John was part of.