Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Y OU’VE CAREFULLY put your team of people together, spent a lot of time getting the right people on the bus, your best and brightest, and yet you’re underperforming? Your team isn’t giving you everything they’ve got. It’s not about creating an environment where people are talking all the time. We all—most of us—manage our image.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 24, 2022

I think healthy teams are intentionally created, so wherever I serve I’m consistently trying to make our environment better. There are some things healthy teams never allow. The team I now serve with works well together – most of the time. Healthy teams never allow these 7 things: Egos. Closed minds.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 6, 2023

What makes teams healthy and effective? Obviously this is our goal if we lead or even serve on a team. Who would want to serve on an unhealthy team? It may be a permanent team or a temporary team, but we’ve all served on teams, which simply weren’t productive. The team didn’t gel as a group.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2023

I don’t have many specialities, but if I have any hiring great team members is one of them. 7 unique tips for hiring a great team: Hire based on culture. Of course, there are some who can work in both environments, but some simply can’t. You can teach content, but the lack of character will disrupt a team every time.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. Signs of a High-Trust Environment. Related Reading and Sketchnotes at QAspire: Building a Culture of Adaptability.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 10, 2023

It seemed things were healthy on the team. We had the right players and clarity of vision, however, team friction developed. This isn’t unusual on teams. Even the best teams are made of imperfect people with differing views and opinions of how things should be done. So, the best teams will have friction at times.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I am not sure why you would want to, but just in case you ever did… Perhaps understanding how helps you not to, because, just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy team environment doesn’t happen without intentionality. Have no clear purpose for the team. Team Idleness.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 6, 2020

About once a week I talk with a minister – usually a younger minister – who is miserable work environment in their current context. I would never advise spending 40 years in a miserable environment. 5 suggestions when a work environment is difficult: Soak up all you can. Life is short. How should you respond?

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Growth in today’s world is driven by how talented people bring their best ideas on the table, work with each other in a conducive environment and choose to deliver their best effort in order to achieve the desired outcome. Conversations that leaders have with their people are the drivers of psychological safety.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are some unrealistic expectations of serving on a healthy team. I believe some people have an almost “utopian”, but certainly unrealistic view of what it means to be a “healthy team”. I write a lot about healthy teams and I’ve even had the occasion a couple of times throughout my career to say I served and led one.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 28, 2017

I am not sure why you would want to, but just in case you ever did, I know some keys to creating an unhealthy team. There are things which injure the health of a team. Here are 10 ways to create an unhealthy team environment: Make people question their role or performance on the team. We have to work at it.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The way a leader handles correction of someone on the team is important if the desire is to keep quality people on the team – and a healthy team dynamic. Using authority without an established relationship may work in a bureaucratic organization, but not in a team environment.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leaders are too hard to find, we certainly want to keep leaders on our teams when we have them. The goal then is to find ways to keep a leader energized to stay with the team – so I thought a companion post was appropriate. Here are a few suggestions to keep leaders on your team: Give them an unsolved challenge.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 27, 2022

This is dangerous for a team, which wishes to continue growing. If a team is not learning and improving, it will soon struggle to maintain any level of success. Here are 10 inexpensive development options for a team: Bring in a leader – It may be cheaper to bring the expert to you than it is to attend a conference.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 30, 2018

A decade ago, Marcial Losada’s research promoted a meta-model of learning for teams that involved three variables at a ratio of at least three to one. Edmondson coined the term psychological safety to capture the degree to which people believe their environment is conducive to taking these risks. What is important to you?

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 4, 2012

Teaming has a positive effect on people's experience at work. In organizations where teaming is common, employees learn from each other, enjoy a broader understanding of the work and how it gets done from start to finish, and can better see and act on opportunities for improvement. Leadership Actions Can Promote Teaming.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 31, 2021

I have some suggestions for pastors (or leaders) when they lose a good team member. When you have great staff people, the team is set and everything is going well, it’s hard when someone leaves. How should you handle things when a team member leaves for other opportunities? This post came to me the hard way.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Words do matter and clear communication is vital for healthy teams. At the same time, there will be a certain fuzziness on a healthy team. . Some things are actually what I refer to as “ fuzzy ” on a healthy team. 3 areas of fuzziness on a healthy team: The lines of authority are often blurred. Indistinct.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 30, 2020

In my world, the word team is used almost on a daily basis. Most of us want to be in a team environment. However, in my experience working with churches – and it was true when I was in business also – more people claim to have a team than actually do. On a team everyone sits in a seat of authority.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 22, 2022

There are things which injure the health of any team. Just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy culture doesn’t happen without intentionality. 10 ways to create an unhealthy culture: Make people question their role or performance on the team. Have no clear purpose for the team.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 19, 2020

There are things leaders can do to encourage team members to be more innovative. Here are a 7 easy ways to encourage innovation: Get away from the office as a team. Creative thoughts are often fueled better outside your normal environment. Create an environment where innovation and outside-the-box thinking is acceptable.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Why spend 40 years in a miserable environment? Here are 5 suggestions when a work environment is miserable: Soak up all you can. You may be the one positive voice encouraging others on your team. The post 5 Suggestions When You Find Yourself in a Miserable Work Environment appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I’m just being candid here, but frankly, I’d be comfortable leading by email, but how healthy would such an environment be? You get poor performance from the best leaders on your team and, worst of all, your team fails to live up to its potential. Knowing what my team really thinks empowers me to lead them better.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 15, 2020

Words do matter and clear communication is vital for healthy teams. In fact, in my experience, some things are even “ fuzzy ” on a healthy team. Here are 3 areas of fuzziness on a healthy team: The lines of authority are often blurred. But on healthy teams, rules are designed to enhance, not limit growth. Indistinct.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When the leader is the final step of every decision it creates a culture where team members feel devalued – like their individual abilities are in question. In fact, it becomes less of a team and more of a group of employees. They create a “go for it” environment. Other people’s ideas or opinions are ignored.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s that if we had a preference of how to use our free time, many times we would spend it in quieter or more controllable environments. Chances are you have lots of introverts on your team, in your church, your workplace, as your customers, even in your family. It’s not that we don’t like people.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast , Ron and Nate discuss attracting first chair leaders. My goal was always to try to find the very best leaders I could find to add to our team. Nate and I talk about some of those in this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast. Would you do me a favor?

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Leader, let me share one easy, but huge thing you can do to better empower people on your team. You want to fully empower your team? Sometimes we do that with our team. If we are growing and learning personally, the team is often where we process our thoughts as we have them. Often we dispense a lot of new ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One of the goals of a leader should be to encourage, strengthen and challenge a team to continually improve. The vocabulary of a leader helps shape the culture and atmosphere of the team. Everyone needs to know this, but in my experience, this is even more important the newer the person is on the team. I’ve got your back.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Do you want to attract a leader to your team? Challenge, opportunity, problems, something everyone says can’t be done — Those type environments fuel a leader’s energy. It’s what can attract a leader to your team. The post The Absolute Best Way to Attract a Leader appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 19, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Leadership » 3 Ways to Respond to a Controlling Leader 3 Ways to Respond to a Controlling Leader January 19, 2011 in Leadership , Organizational Leadership , Team Leadership with 11 Comments I have written a good deal recently about controlling leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 4, 2021

This means I try to cast the vision for a team and get out of the way, releasing each team member to do his or her work in their own individual way. 5 times I tend to micromanage: When a team member is new to the organization. When a team or team leader has been severely crippled by injury or stress.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Linchpin by Seth Godin – This is a simple book, but it is oh so profound at looking at how our work environments, careers, and the way we accomplish things is done these days. This book is full of nuggets of how to make teams work well. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell – This is not a new book, but I had put off reading it.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 6, 2013

So…if you want to be a lifetime learner… Here 3 learning environments: Learning by experience – This is where you learn by doing. Are there other learning environments I failed to mention? Related posts: Iron Sharpens Iron – Learn From Your Team. Some would say over-simplification.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 20, 2017

There are things leaders can do, however, to encourage team members to be more innovative. Here are a 7 easy ideas to encourage innovation: Get away from the office as a team. Creative thoughts are fueled better outside your normal routine and environment. Have times together as a team that are simply fun.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 5, 2023

And I really don’t have to say apparently, because she made that quite clear as she complained rather loudly about her absent team members throughout our visit.) The way a leader reacts under pressure determines how a team reacts under pressure. Pushes forward the best he or she can – the team will more likely remain calm.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 2, 2022

There is so much stress in hiring the right person for a team. Who joins our team is vital to our culture. Over the years, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, but I’ve also managed – in the business world and the church world – to develop some pretty healthy teams. Add people to the team you trust.

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