Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 19, 2024

Remote Team Building Insights from the Muppets Are you struggling with remote team building? He’s #AskingforaFriend , but we know it’s a common query: How do you foster remote team building and bonding? What remote team-building ideas do you have for a better connection? You’re not alone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2024

Help your remote team do conflict better with a few Powerful Phrases Navigating conflict at work is hard. Splash the team across time zones and geographies 3. An engaging and light-hearted way to do this is to have your team describe the “conflict cocktails” they’re experiencing now.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

Practical strategies to encourage enthusiastic team members from talking too much and empower collaborative conversation So what do you do when your well-meaning, enthusiastic team-member is just talking too much in meetings? It’s tricky, particularly in virtual meetings. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

12 Habits Great Teams Consistently Do to Create Commitment and Build Collaboration 1. You can help your team avoid endless discussions, analysis paralysis, and chokepoints by moving conversations to intentions to specific actions. Related Article: Help Your Team Do More-Stop (over) Talking and Start Doing 2.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Taking a moment for a team year-in-review fosters curiosity and connection I don’t know about you, but we love a good “year-in-review” list. How would your highlight reel compare to the year-in-review highlights from your team? There’s something about looking back over the entire year and seeing what stands out.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2024

If you want better collaboration, eliminate these phrases from your team communication. You know collaboration matters and you want to be a team player. For example: “I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” So what went wrong?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2021

Too many meetings can frustrate productivity and morale. Reduce them to free your team. When your calendar staggers under the weight of too many meetings, start with design thinking, involve your team, and improve your use of asynchronous tools. It’s a refrain […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2024

The Communication Channel You Choose Matters: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It If you’re managing a team, you know how crucial your choice of communication can be. It means that how you communicate with your team can be just as important, if not more so, than what you are communicating. The medium really is the message.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. You can achieve these outcomes when you recognize the challenges and focus on four dimensions of team collaboration.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Of bustling end-of-year stress to meet business goals? When you’re navigating change, traditions can help your team maintain their connection with one another and their values. My (David’s) team would celebrate the start of a new year with a small gift of a nice pen that was a symbol of what we would create together.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I sat in a committee meeting drawing up a job description for a new senior management role. I sat in a committee meeting drawing up a job description for a new senior management role. I sat there frustrated as the meeting concluded. Sitting in that committee meeting feeling overlooked, the rhyme came lilting back to mind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Help Your Team Get Unstuck. Despite all the change going on, have you noticed your team sometimes gets stuck in a rut of uninspiring routines? But, is it giving your team what they need most, now? It’s easier for your team to keep thinking and doing things the way that’s worked before.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Rubin likes to say that if we treated relay races the way we treat our team members, we’d tell them, “I’m not paying you to stand here. However, the team that wins the relay race is the team that gets the baton across the finish line first, not the team that had runners running the most. I’m paying you to run.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 12, 2024

Don't squander opportunities when remote teams meet in person. Energizing meetings are rare and hard to pull off. How can you create vibrant environments and get work done? Don't bother traveling if face-to-face is the same as remote - except you're in the same room.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. “I’m finding that my part of the company (team and peers) isn’t getting enough executive-level attention. The team has been working so hard, can you please come and thank them and tell them the impact their hard work has made?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 15, 2022

Karin, with our new work-from-home policy, and flexible work arrangements, I have some of my team working from home most of the time. And, other team members are choosing to come into the office (as am I). Talk about proximity bias WITH your team. Lead your meetings from both sides of the hybrid table to avoid proximity bias.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 3, 2023

How to Increase Trust in Your Remote Team When You’re Rarely in the Same Room “Hey Karin, I have a great team, but they’re spread out ALL OVER THE WORLD. These questions apply to leadership, but they also can apply to teams. Does your team understand and value the expertise of each person?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2023

I keep hearing from employees who joined their company or started with a new team during the pandemic. Many of these workers remain part of a remote team and have NEVER been in the SAME ROOM with their manager or co-workers. Quick Tips to Jumpstart Conversation in a Remote Team. for better communication and better results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 2, 2021

When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. In this episode, you’ll get the tools to overcome both of these problems before they derail your team. Help Your Team Make Better Decisions. Help Your Team Make Better Decisions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

We don’t hate online meetings – we hate soul-sucking wastes of time After months of online meetings, video conferences, Zoom, and Teams meetings, you’ve mastered the basics: You’ve got light in front of you (not behind you) so we can see you […].

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 5, 2013

The team building I offer focuses on the team completing their work on time, within budget and quality specifications. Everything returns to the work and developing a team that wants to stay together and continue to work together. Team projects succeed of purpose. Project Manager / Team Leader – What to do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

Imagine they were to kick off the training with a powerful story, then stay and engage with the team? After the training, what if they check for understanding to ensure their team understands the new techniques and why they matter? Now, imagine if you had leaders at every level doing that with their teams. Wait, What?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

And, if you’re like Declan, when you delegate, you probably think through the success criteria and give someone clear outcomes to meet. To see something before she can respond to it and know if it’s going to work, make sense, or meet the needs. You can lessen your frustration and help solve bad delegation by aligning expectations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

You care about your team and the work they’re doing. And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? For Better Recognition: Start By Differentiating Your Team’s Performance and then Bring on the Spotlight.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. hybrid and virtual teams. If you haven’t seen our FREE virtual and hypbrid team assessment you can download that for FREE here. How to Take Charge of your VIrtual Meetings.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

So make sure that if you’re encouraging your team to model certain behaviors you are also demonstrating those behaviors. And if you want your team to lead in a human-centered way, you should show up that way too. AskingForaFriend This fantastic question came in during one of our recent leadership development programs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Empowered teams will transform results, solve problems you didn’t know exist, and rapidly respond to change. Most managers will say they want those outcomes and that they believe in an empowered team, but unintentionally prevent their teams from doing their best. What is an Empowered Team? Misguided support.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 13, 2021

Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. Looking For More Team Building Resources?

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Meetings suck. I know — we've all attended those 2-3 hour status meetings that drone on forever, stray WAY off course, and never get anything accomplished. How do we make our meetings better? I have three actions that make my meetings fun, collaborative, and powerful: ACTION 1: Flip it up. The shorter, the better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Make a Great First Impression with a Stellar Team Meeting Hi Karin, I have a new team at work, and I want to make our first meeting fantastic. What recommendations do you have to form a great first impression with my new team? Be Genuinely Interested Ask your new team “What do you want me to know?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. Speak the Common Language of “Why” Ensure your senior team can articulate the “why” of your projects and the big-picture vision of your organization. Be sure they get a chance to think and talk about how the strategy is going to work for their team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

I know my team is not a fan (and quite frankly, neither am I). It’s time to communicate this to my team. ” What’s the best way to communicate this to my team # AskingforaFriend 4 Approaches to Get Your Team Past the Disapointment and Moving Forward Productively As a leader, not every decision you make will be popular.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Therefore, our tailored approach is designed to customize the evaluation process to meet these specific requirements. The expertise of our evaluation team is a vital component of our process. We assemble a team of experienced consulting professionals with deep insights into executive leadership and organizational dynamics.

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