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17 Quotes on Virtual Teamwork and Remote Teams to Inspire You

Great Results Team Building

Working on remote teams and trying to successfully navigate the challenges of remote teamwork can sometimes be frustrating. QUOTES FOR REMOTE TEAMS: 1. “In Blanchard. Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” – Stephen Covey. ” — Jason Fried.

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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Don’t Tolerate Dysfunctional Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. every day.

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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

When Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller collaborated on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do , they created a story line based on simple insights that had the potential to make a major impact on those who read—and applied—the principles.

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6 Ways to Build Trust During Organizational Change

Lead Change Blog

The one must-have ingredient of successful change efforts is trust. It’s critical that leaders foster a culture of trust before, during, and after a change effort if they want to have any chance of success. Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change.

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5 Commonsense but Uncommon Practices of Successful Leaders

Leading with Trust

In our new book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , Ken Blanchard and I share fifty-two Simple Truths about leadership that will help leaders everywhere make commonsense leadership common practice. Let your team know what you’ve learned and what you’ll do differently next time. Extend Trust.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

Great Leadership By Dan

Or, they may be forced out, often because their department or division culture (despite its successes) is very different from the parent organization’s culture. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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