What’s Your Team’s Purpose

What’s Your Team’s Purpose

In my work with leaders and teams, I often find that there is a lack of clarity around purpose.  This can be overall purpose of the team, or more specifically around purpose of an individual’s contribution to the team or a lack of connection between a team’s purpose...
3 Skills Teams Need Most Now and in 2021

3 Skills Teams Need Most Now and in 2021

As I reflect on this year and the challenge it has brought for us in so many ways, I see that there are three skills of leaders that have continued to bubble up as crucial for promoting success on teams.  They have always been crucial skills but in easier times,...
7 Surprising Ways You Could Be Alienating Your Team

7 Surprising Ways You Could Be Alienating Your Team

      Do you want better engagement and productivity from your team?  Perhaps you are doing one (or more) of these things that alienate team members, zap engagement and don’t get you the results you desire. 1. You don’t share information Teams expect...

Are You A Team Player?

Blog Image: By lumaxart (Working Together Teamwork Puzzle Concept) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Merriam-Webster defines team as “a number of persons associated together in work or activity:”. This definition...