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Getting Your Remote Team Together

to start the New Year off right!

What better way to kick off the team in the New Year then to bring the entire group together to reset priorities for the year and evaluate processes and procedures for working as a team.

Before we get into the “what to do” when bringing the team together, […]

An Introduction to the Value of High Levels of Emotional Intelligence

“Emotional Intelligence is the ability to monitor one’s own emotions and the emotions of others, to discriminate between different emotions and use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior.”

(Wikipedia.org, referencing: Coleman, Andrew (2008), A Dictionary of Psychology, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press.)

Individuals with high levels of emotional intelligence (EI) are better able to […]

A Mini Case Study: What’s Wrong With This Team – Part II

Read Part I of the mini case study.

What may be some of the primary reasons for the team feeling as they are?

There are any number of issues that could be happening. The members may not understand what it means to be part of a team, may have had poor experiences on past […]

A Mini Case Study: What’s Wrong With This Team – Part I

From the minute the project was announced and the team members assigned, several of the members were overheard telling their colleagues that they didn’t understand why they needed to be involved in this initiative. They wanted to continue to work alone, as they have been doing for many years. One member was quoted with the […]

Helping Too Quiet Employees: A Case Study

Jack was concerned about Mary, one of his employees. He knew she had much to share and was very knowledgeable; but she was always quiet in team meetings. In fact, during the last team meeting when a problem was being discussed, and Jack knew that Mary had a few great ideas to solve it, she […]