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How to Optimize Team Communications – Part I

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”- Peter Drucker

Face-to-face communication is usually the most complete form of communication. When communicating face-to-face, you can read facial expressions and other body language. Video conferencing has improved substantially, and now also enables participants to see one another, though you usually cannot […]

How to Help Unify Your Team, And Align Yourself with Your Team’s Purpose

The mission to eliminate Osama Bin Laden had a clearly focused end point, but did not have a target goal date until the spring of 2011. A team with unity of purpose has everyone aligned—like a pack of wolves pursuing their prey. They are focused. Whether your team is a business project team or a […]

How to Promote Perseverance in Yourself and Your Team

“You Can Get It If You Really Want.” Jimmy Cliff

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the best model of perseverance ever known. He started two businesses that failed. His fiancée died; during the next year he suffered a nervous breakdown. He ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature; he was defeated in two runs for […]

3 Ways to Manage a Problem Team Member

We have all either managed a team or been involved with a team where there was one person that was just a thorn in your side; that one person who did not play well with others and frankly caused significant frustration and stress amongst the rest of the team members.

Too often we let it […]

Brainstorming and Crowdsourcing – Part II

Read Part I of this post, How to Get the Best Ideas from Your Team and Your Expanded Team.

Can you expect pattern-busting breakthroughs if your team is only three or four people? Probably not. You are very unlikely to have significant diversity with such a small number of people Brainstorming with a larger group, […]