During tough economic times, retaining average talent presents no problem. People want a paycheck. But in good times and bad, keeping truly gifted talent remains an ongoing challenge. Finding the specialists that offer what you need poses the first problem; keeping them in your doors the second. Helping organizations and individuals achieve a more powerfulRead more
Ordinary just won’t succeed anymore. Organizations will increasingly depend on cutting-edge solutions to never-before-seen problems and clever ideas for those recurring headaches that have always plagued us. Research indicates that a handful of star performers create the vast majority of valuable ideas for their organizations. These top thinkers, who also deliver stellar results, define theRead more
People use the word “team” to mean any group of people that works for the same company, shares a common purpose, or has any degree of interdependency. Most companies don’t have teams; they have committees. Beautiful music requires more than a collection of people, however; it demands the collective efforts of professionals who devote themselves to creatingRead more
You’ll be most motivated to spend time on team analysis when your team faces a roadblock, but often that will be too late. A more proactive approach would be to do some teambuilding when things are going well. To do that, you simply ask the members of the team to examine the eight critical functionsRead more
Many theorists have tried to explain how and why teams develop. Each theorist offers a different perspective of leadership, but most agree that leaders need to be concerned with the group’s content, process, and output. Advice differs about how the leader should address each of these, however. One of the most popular theorists, B.W. Tuckman,Read more
