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How to Get The Best Ideas From Your Team AND Your Expanded Team Part I

People with different experiences and backgrounds see things differently. These include differences in age, gender, race, occupation, and anything else that makes us different from one another. Ben Franklin’s junto was made up of twelve individuals, and included three from the field of printing, a scrivener who loved poetry and natural history, a glazier who […]

How Good Are You at Building a Team?

Are you giving them the start they need?

Too often we don’t take the time to really build a strong project team. That’s a real shame because in order for a team to be effective and successful at what they are tasked to do, they must have a good start. A good start means that […]

Yet Another Project Team Meeting

Is anything going to get done!

A friend of mine is involved in a large project for her company. She called me the other night exasperated about a recent team meeting (“Yet another one!” she shouted). The project she was involved in was started three months ago. Since then she has been in meetings three […]

Factors that Create Effective and Successful Project Teams

Creating an effective and successful project team – one that works well together to meet the project objectives – is a combination of a number of factors. Certainly, as a team leader, understanding the five stages of team development and how those stages impact the team is essential to you developing a high performing team. […]

5 Things to do Today to Build a Better Relationship with Your Team

By building a better relationship with your team you’ll find that:

You can accomplish more in shorter periods of time The team functions as a true team rather than a group of individuals Conflicts are managed better among team members The team works together more effectively and efficiently The team gets “up to speed” on […]