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What Team Members Can (and should) Do to Help Their Team Become High Performing

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Team members make two common mistakes: Mistake #1: Thinking it’s the team leader’s responsibility to pull the team together and waiting passively for that to happen. Ultimately a team’s success depends on the team members, not the team leader. And sometimes teams can get stuck. What you can do: .

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How to Surface and Align Team Values

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These questions and guidelines will help you surface the right values for your team. Team values don’t need to be exactly the same as your company values, as long as they are aligned and don’t conflict. What values are needed to fulfill your team’s purpose? First identify your team’s purpose. No one is exempt.

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Without Clear Values, You Are Probably Losing Business

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If your team is responsible for financial reporting, accuracy needs to be a core value. If your team is responsible for product development, innovation and creativity need to be core values. If your team operates a cruise ship, safety needs to be a core value. Don’t wait for senior leadership.

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The Value of Vision Series – An Interview With Doug Conant

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Under his leadership, the company generated quality sales growth and some of the best employee engagement rankings in the industry for ten consecutive years. This is one of the challenges of 21st century leadership. The environment is changing, and it’s demanding that we rethink the leadership model in today’s frenetic environment.

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The Value of Vision Series – Shilpa Jain

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What’s vision got to do with leadership?” co-creates JAMs with diverse teams of social change leaders. Jams operate in the spirit of co-creation and improvisation. The Jams operate on this next level—by bringing together diverse people and three interdependent layers of change: individual, communal and systemic.

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Lessons from the Costa Concordia: A Case For Company Values

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The events before, during and after the January 13 tragedy aboard the Costa Concordia point to a true failure of leadership at every level, from the captain who ran the luxury liner aground during a drive by “salute” off the island of Isola del Giglio to the chief executive Pier Luigi Foschi who is denying any responsibility. Where is safety?

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