About team dysfunction

Is your team dysfunctional? 5 ways to tell – and what to do about it If you are the manager of a dysfunctional team, There is constant interpersonal drama instead of strategic work. Your team simply cannot deliver Your projects are delayed if not altogether failing. Paradoxically, your team members are individually gifted but their […]

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About underperformance

Why feedback conversations feel like Groundhog Day. How many times has this happened to you? You sit down with a team member whose work just isn’t meeting the mark. You want them to succeed. You might even really like them. But no matter how many times you talk… nothing changes. Now you’re living your Groundhog Day: the […]

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Top 5 Tips to Motivate and Retain Talent

A Template for a Constructive Performance Assessment (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) In this last offering of 2013, I am returning to the topic of performance assessment as many of you will be presently engaged in performance appraisals, whether as recipients or as managers. Frequently in the two capacities. Let […]

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5 Steps to Leading Others through Change

Help Them to SHIFT™ (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) Welcome to chapter two of my two-part series on change! Last month, the onset of autumn provided the inspiration to look at how we cope with change, that challenging constant at home and at work. I shared with you the […]

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3 Simple Ways to Motivate your Team

Secrets of Team Effectiveness (click below to view the video or read on if you’d prefer!) I am publishing this article just as the Olympics conclude here in London. Did you watch the Games? Or better yet, did you have a chance to go to any of the Olympic venues and be part of that […]

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