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JULY 1, 2012

Managers often end up in a situation when they are hired to take charge of a team/department that already exists and performs to a certain level. New leaders often find it difficult to generate acceptance because a team/organization is a complex network of emotions, relationships and issues. Worst, they criticize and/or threaten.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 10 Pointers to Build Comfort Within The Team It pains to see teams where people work on a common goal but don’t get along well with each other. We work in teams and knowing how to get along well with others is extremely crucial. Here are 10 broad pointers that may help.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Narrowly defined targets can become proxy of the goal while ignoring several other factors that contribute to accomplishing the real and meaningful outcome. Reframe metrics as a tool to learn and adapt: Build team rituals to have a dialogue on leading indicators to learn, adapt and course correct.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Appreciation is a fuel that helps others move forward in direction of their goals, yet we often see that managers take others/their work for granted thinking, “So what if they’re doing it – they’re paid to do just that.” Simple things like thank you notes/cards can go a long way in keeping the team energized.

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MARCH 9, 2011

We live in times where more and more work is executed by teams that are geographically distributed. Leading a virtual team, fostering collaboration and binding them to common set of objectives is one of the key challenges for business leaders. When team is distributed, leadership responsibilities should also be distributed.

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APRIL 6, 2015

If you are aiming to build teams that are self-organizing, this is even more crucial. To be a part of a self-organizing team, people require maturity, skills and expertise to deal with technical challenges and manage conflicts constructively. Narrowly focused reward programs kill self-organization within teams.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Essentialism by George McKeown When facilitating strategy discussions with customers, I often came across situations when teams commit to work on multiple critical priorities at a time. The pilot was then asked to circle five most important goals. This has tangible negative impact on an organizational performance and outcomes.

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OCTOBER 13, 2014

Specific, measurable and time bound goals are important to set expectations on results and drive performance in short term. Goals is like math; they address the head. Goals have an end date. Goals however, are not sufficient. A disengaged workforce that just complies to goals, and that too – dispassionately.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Your position is an opportunity; an obligation to make a difference in how your team performs. Disengaged team will, at the best, comply to your directives but will never be able to bring their complete creative potential on board. Simply staying on top of information: Yes, you definitely need to know what is happening in your team.

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MAY 24, 2022

To validate my thinking, challenge it at times and stay on the leading edge of contemporary/changing ideas about how organizations and teams can improve work and workplace To build relationships and connections with people whose ideas resonate strongly with me. After all, influence is never a goal in itself.

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MAY 7, 2017

This is conversation that goes way beyond HR teams focusing narrowly on “employee engagement programs”. Organizations have to relentlessly clarify purpose, how an individual’s work enables achievement of purpose and provide autonomy to team members to execute their ideas. Social mindset plays a huge role in enabling people to perform.

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AUGUST 19, 2012

Jay was expected to reach his goal while following the exact process and still doing twelve other things that were unstructured. In this case, to keep Jay focused on one important goal is the accountability of his boss – and if the boss failed on this one, Jay would definitely fail. Resentment in the team.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

When there’s unlimited shelf space allowing unlimited podcasts, which can be of unlimited length, the goal isn’t to get the show on the air faster or to make it noisier. Instead, the goal, like the goal of a good book, is to say something worth saying, and to do it in a way that’s worth waiting for.

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JULY 31, 2013

Adaptable teams help in organizational adaptability. - – - – -. Better coaching = Better team/business results = Satisfied Customers = Better Bottom lines. - – - – -. Coaching is the subset of mentoring and focuses on specific goal or task at hand. - – - – -. start getting ready. (RT

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

She has spent her career leading teams in Fortune 500 Human Resources organizations. Your company, your favorite sports team, a college or university, even a church, mosque or synagogue has its own culture. In turn, team members, along with their companies, achieve excellence personally and professionally. Adams] Thanks Tanmay.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Being able to effectively choose the response to the triggers in a way that brings you closer to your intent and goals. Leading organizations, teams and initiatives is all about producing tangible outcomes. Being fully available, present, attentive and engaged in present moment, conversations, tasks and challenges.

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APRIL 13, 2014

One of the key challenges for a collaborative leader is to align the team, cross functional groups and customers to a common purpose and the best ways to address this challenge is to meaningfully connect with others. This is especially vital for teams that are distributed. They use technology and tools for effective collaboration.

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MAY 8, 2012

Set improvement goals: Once a reasonable buy-in for improvement exists, set goals on what needs to be achieved. Involve them and set them free: Once broad goals are established, set people free. Eliminate barriers and ensure that team stays focused. Review and revise these targets as you go.

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OCTOBER 28, 2012

[Note: This post is a continuation of thoughts from my earlier post “ Building Engaged Teams with Power of Appreciation ”]. The work you are appreciated for should meet the goal. What if you shined but the team lost? Focus on inner satisfaction of doing your work in the best possible way and let appreciation be a by-product.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

Leaders have to maintain constant positive momentum towards achieving the vision and goals of the team. 60 pointers for building a great team and culture (PDF). As a leader, if you are not making forward progress, you are already moving backwards. They have to respect people, their time and their strengths.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

In an organizational context, ability to influence is at the heart of a leader’s success in driving changes, building great teams, delivering results and implementing the strategic vision. At an individual level, your ability to influence others is at the core of building relationships, creating a network and achieving your goals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Improvement & Development Leadership Leading People Team Building HR Leadership Development Training Training and Development'

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

Understanding nuances of your work, its implications and clarity on overall context is as crucial in knowledge world as understanding others on the team. May 2012: Team Performance: Keeping Ego at Bay. When you encounter an ego situation, quiz your goals. Comprehension is important. September 2012: Comfortable With Chaos 15.

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MAY 14, 2012

I have always believed that meetings (specially with the team) are a great forum to inspire action, instill a sense of urgency and get things done. Some great tips, including this one: The goals of the daily stand-up are GIFTS. A quick stand-up meeting everyday to track progress.

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JUNE 1, 2014

Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center emphasizes on the importance of creating a team charter through her post “ Create a Team Charter to Go Faster and Smarter ”. She says, “Taking the time to get clear agreements among team members can slow things down in the beginning, but will help you go faster in the long run.

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MARCH 8, 2015

But when you look at the whole system, you might figure out that the real root cause is in something which is immeasurable yet important – may be, collaboration with other teams or how you sell. You deploy tools, introduce new processes, measure constantly and yet – a few months later, you encounter a similar problem.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

The goal was to identify the opportunities for improvement in processes. Here are a few questions every leader should ask themselves when in a conversation: How is this conversation helping me drive the desired performance/results from people in my team? A few years back, I was facilitating a discussion between the project leaders.

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APRIL 17, 2016

In an organizational and team context, being able to coach people means helping them overcome their own resistance, get unstuck and move forward in the direction of their goals. Great coaching is at the heart of meaningful accomplishments. Great coaching catalyzes great results.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

When leaders leverage this affinity, they create aligned teams. As leaders it’s important to “trigger&# the thoughts/actions of our team members by linking vision and goals to their previous life experiences - stories do that! Be creative, leaders, it’s time to “suck our teams into the vortex”!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Response is nothing but a time delayed, thoughtful and goal-oriented form of reaction. Here’s my one big lesson about managing conflicts – whenever I tried to “react” in the face of conflict, the situation mostly worsened. But when I chose to “respond”, conflict became a constructive learning experience.

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MARCH 6, 2016

The article also provides an excellent context of leadership storytelling and offers practical ways to frame your narrative depending on your goals. In his classic HBR article titled “ Telling Tales ”, Steve Denning outlines seven aims of a good narrative. I recommend that you read the original article.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

When leaders are absolutely clear of their vision, goals and the means to attain those, they can simplify things a great deal. Leaders have to nurture simplicity in their teams by challenging them often to think laterally and come up with simple solutions. Simplicity within a team is a product of leading them well.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer ‘Their Work’ Versus ‘My Work’ When you work in an organization or within a team, you can think of it as ‘doing the work for someone’. What i believe and also suggest my team / peer is stop thinking that you have to work for your boss or for a company. For the client.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

The goal of these learning experiments is simple: to experience deeply, learn immersively and share generously. I created handmade “thank you” cards to appreciate people in my team. A few people in my teams attempted to represent their project related ideas in form of basic sketch notes.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Well regarding, Servant Leadership, can you please explain where can this kind of ideology fit in a leadership activity or what a leader can benifit and when, by following this attitude of being just a server or a purpose to attain a end goal for organization.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The cause of building a great team. Alignment of each team member to goal/results leads to a flat structure where role of a leader is that of an enabler. When a leader consistently enables, empowers, motivates and serves his people, he truly subordinates the cause of building a great team that delivers great results.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Seven Key Thoughts About Managing Human Resources was the post I wrote for business owners, team leaders and human resources teams. In a high performance team, No one is anyone’s subordinate, but everyone is a subordinate to a cause. I almost hate when human beings are referred to as resources. I enjoyed writing this the most.

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