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Fostering Leadership Excellence: How to Develop Your Team for Success

Lead from Within

There are several strategies that leaders can implement to fostering excellence with their team: Provide training and development opportunities: Providing training and development opportunities can help leaders improve their leadership skills and knowledge. This can include attending workshops or courses on leadership.

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Using Activities to Turn Serious Problems into Playful Activities–Workshop in Buffalo NY

Mike Cardus

I’ll be facilitating a workshop for the Organization Development Network of Western New York. There is no fee for this workshop … to learn more. The effort is finding exceptions to problems and determining how the team and person cooperate best – quickly finding what works and doing more of it. This is a free workshop.

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Favorites of 2013–Team Building and Leadership Images Used in Presentations & Workshops

Mike Cardus

12/27/13 – Images Used in Presentations & Workshops. Favorite Images Used in Workshops and Presentations 2013. Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops. You Can Not Train People to Think Bigger or With More Complexity Than They are Currently Capable. 12/30/13 – Team Building & Leadership Photos.

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Resistance to Change. Fear of Temporary Incompetence

Mike Cardus

Kathy “ Well they are saying that they did not know it would be this much of a commitment”, Me “Hmm… we covered all that in the 1st workshop…OK let’s set up a meeting.”. The same group of managers who were enthusiastic about management development and applied leadership to the organization, turned from cooperators to resistors in 3 days!

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Resistance and Inward Spiraling Doom Loops

Mike Cardus

Sitting with 20 managers in a Communication and Collaboration Workshop discussing Cooperation and Resistance Loops. As opposed to being the outcast who sees the supposed-enemy as a possible-cooperator. Cooperation loops. We find it easier to join the crowd and complain. Doom Loop illustrated. What do you think?

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9 Ways to Increase Recognition of Achievements

Mike Cardus

This is why people feel good in team building workshops. Be thoughtful or ask another person to keep track of the amount of words & language used when talking to employees about problems and bad things resistance vs. the time talking about successes and good things cooperation. Which items on the list make sense to you?

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It Takes a Team

The Recovering Engineer

We have the Kevin Eikenberry Group team that supports us as we travel for training and speaking engagements. He is an engineer by nature, by training, and experience. Writing the book was a collaborative effort involving Kevin and me, but it doesn’t stop there.

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