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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Fear of Loss of Group Membership is More Powerful Than Management

Mike Cardus

People and teams test the change on their own and find what works. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. In management meetings we asked for what worked and what needed to be changed. Sharing Progress and Reinforcing Small Steps.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

What’s in short supply is great teams.” ” Good managers foster teamwork. Highly effective leaders build outstanding teams that multiply their effectiveness well beyond the sum of their members. What’s in a Name: Team Labels Don’t Create Teamwork Many so-called teams aren’t.

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Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. A teambuilding program that is fun, and teams leave better than when they arrived?” All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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How Leaders Make or Break Team Effectiveness

The Practical Leader

There’s a strong correlation between your skills at facilitating a team discussion, handling conflict, leveraging diversity, keeping a meeting on track, building a team’s effectiveness, etc., and how you leverage the power of teams. An effective senior management team. Be a leader.

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Instead of looking for the Problems. Start looking for the Exceptions

Mike Cardus

Someone at work ( your manager, coworker, subordinate, peer, vendor, customer, etc…) pisses you off and you go off on an angry tirade about “What a jerk they are – they always do this. When coaching teams and individuals , many complaints come to the surface. Pattern of Cooperation. It has happened to all of us.

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Unleashing the Power of Small Teams

HR Digest

But when you have smaller teams that are responsible for their own work, you get all the benefits of cooperation while still creating an environment where people are motivated to do their best work because they know their efforts will be recognized and rewarded. In this article, we look at how a small team operates.

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