Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The best leaders and managers understand that investing in a leadership coach is essential for achieving clarity and improved performance. As a manager or leader, your ultimate goal is to drive your team towards success. But the path to excellence is often blocked by challenges that can be difficult to navigate alone. Just as elite athletes rely on quality coaches to refine their skills, maximize their potential, and achieve peak performance, leaders can benefit immensely from a skilled mentor.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Psychological Safety is the Key to a Thriving Team Culture It is not just a buzzword… It’s a crucial factor in team success and a cornerstone of a healthy organizational culture. And it is the feeling the individuals on your team have that they won’t be punished or humiliated for sharing their ideas, concerns, or mistakes. A lack of psychological safety = crickets in your meetings… As a leader, if there is an elephant in the room, you want your people to name it so together you can tame it

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 25, 2024

Micromanaging is the fastest way to demoralize your team and stifle productivity. Effective leaders know that teamwork is the backbone of any successful organization. Teams that function cohesively and autonomously are more likely to innovate, solve problems efficiently, and maintain high levels of morale. However, one common obstacle severely undermines this synergy… Micromanagement kills team morale.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2024

Before you became a manager or team leader, success was about solving problems for people. As an effective leader, though, you solve problems through people. Delegation is a critical skill for managers that maximizes their effectiveness and empowers their teams. Properly delegating tasks not only frees up a manager’s time for higher-level strategic work but also empowers team members, boosts morale, and fosters professional growth.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 28, 2024

Burnout Is a word tossed around casually, often dismissed as simple fatigue. But for the World Health Organization (WHO), it’s a serious issue with a clear definition: burnout is a state of “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.” Alarmingly, FlexJobs reports that 75% of workers have experienced burnout… And the consequences?

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2024

Leadership development training days aren’t optional; They are essential for great teams. Engaging and effective leadership development days are a critical necessity for sustaining your organizational success and growing your people. Staff training programs play a pivotal role in nurturing the next crop of leaders, equipping them with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate challenges and drive growth.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

The most effective leaders understand that clear communication isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. Different people have different communication styles, shaped by their personality tendencies. Just like a key needs the right grooves to unlock a door, your leadership approach needs to adapt to different personalities to achieve truly productive communication.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions, while promising exciting ventures, can often become battlegrounds of clashing cultures, leaving you with a demoralized workforce and a struggling combined entity. And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions, while promising exciting ventures, can often become battlegrounds of clashing cultures, leaving you with a demoralized workforce and a struggling combined entity. And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 5, 2024

Imagine a workplace where everyone wakes up energized, knowing their actions contribute to a bigger, shared vision. Imagine collaboration erupting, not from forced mandates, but from a deep understanding of “why” and “how” each role connects to the team’s success. This isn’t a dream; it’s the reality unlocked by harnessing the power of the team alignment cascade - mission, values, goals, and roles.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the most difficult parts of any team leader’s job is to have positive and effective feedback conversations. If you want to improve your retention or results as a leader, you understand that part of your job is to address behaviors that affect your team performance… “ THE SUREST WAY TO LOSE GREAT EMPLOYEES IS TO CONSISTENTLY TOLERATE BAD ONES” And those important conversation are far more effective when you have a 5-part feedback model to use as a structure for your comments… Whether you

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 5, 2024

IF YOU WANT TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN WINNING TEAMMATES IN YOUR ORGANIZATION, YOU NEED TO CELEBRATE THEIR POSITIVE IMPACT… I’m always honored and excited when I get invited to conferences to share a message to develop Effective Leaders and help companies build an exceptional workplace culture. But one of the most important keynotes I share is What Winning Teammates DO Differently.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Your successful 2024 is about windows and mirrors. Windows are what you are likelyto be concerned with the next month or two. And that isn’t a bad thing. It is only natural to begin to look forward and to direct your focus to the things you anticipate and things you want to accomplish in 2024. We look out windows every day as we consider what might be possible… And as the new year approaches, the tendency is to look ahead.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Accelerating your growth as an team leader or teammate is about mastering the art of effective communication. As I share in many keynotes and training programs, “ being effective is not about experience… it’s about awareness.” And in teaching audiences how to become more aware of themselves and their team members tendencies and needs, I have often emphasized the importance of curiosity and how that leads to having more positive and intentional interactions.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Embarking on the path of personal and professional development is a journey marked by challenges, triumphs, and the continuous pursuit of excellence. In this worthwhile pursuit, the role of an accountability partner emerges as a pivotal force, offering a transformative experience beyond the conventional realms of progress tracking. Imagine having a peer ally deeply invested in your success, providing unwavering support, valuable feedback, and genuine encouragement.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Looking over my calendar recently, I realized that nearly half of my events this past year have either been from repeat clients or from referrals. It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement. Working with event professionals to deliver an entertaining event experience that provides useful content attendees can take back to their team to improve results and retention is something I am passionate about and enjoy tremendously!

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to cultivate awareness stands out as the most crucial trait for leaders to develop. Awareness accelerates leadership growth and improves your team culture. It encompasses self-awareness, social awareness, and situational awareness, enabling leaders to make informed decisions, build strong relationships, and foster a high-performing culture.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 21, 2023

The ability to foster collaboration among and across departments can significantly enhance productivity, innovation, and overall organizational performance. As leaders and team managers, understanding the value of collaboration and employing the right strategies can be the key to unlocking your team’s full potential. For your team to be truly productive, collaboration is crucial.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

Effective problem-solving is a critical skill for any successful leader. However, all too often, teams rush to find solutions without taking the necessary time to define the problem clearly. By overlooking this crucial step, teams may only address the symptoms of the problem, leading to ineffective or short-term solutions Successful team leaders look beyond symptoms and define problems clearly before seeking solutions.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 2, 2023

As someone who works in a team or leads a team, you have probably heard that gossip is always negative. It should be avoided at all costs… Gossip is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “ Casual or unconstrained conversation about other people.” And Dave Ramsey, a welll-known financial expert, has been outspoken about the “No-Gossip” policy for his people at Entreleadership – for them it has been a significant part of defining their culture.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Great Results Teambuilding is the home of the April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival… And it is an honor to host this impressive version of monthly curated articles with insights that will equip you to become a more effective leader! I’m excited to share this collection of 27 posts submitted by world-class authors and leadership experts on the topics of communication , inspriation , development , and engagement.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2023

With many businesses moving toward online office spaces and remote teams, connecting with your remote employees can seem complicated. Thankfully, there are easy, reliable ways to ensure your remote team feels like part of the office. From prioritizing employee engagement to taking advantage of programs like Slack and the various apps that make Slack a powerful tool for communication, connecting with remote teams doesn’t have to be a hassle.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 1, 2023

As a team leader or employee, the quality of your days and the quality of your results is likely impacted significatnly by the quality of your teammates. In my book, The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates , the main character has lost his job and is traveling to take on a new position in a nother town - and during the journey, he asks each of the people he talks with one very interesting question: “Who is the best teammate you ever had?

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The longer I work with teams and help organizations with events and experiences to improve their culture and productivity, the more clear it has become to me that TEAMWORK, TEAM BUILDING, MORALE, and WORKPLACE CULTURE are all symptoms of leadership. It is the quality of your leadership that will determine the quality of results in any organization. And effective leaders not only inspire their team to be productive and efficient but also create an environment of collaboration and teamwork.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the challenges of moving to a remote or hybrid working situation is finding a way to encourage and improve collaboration when people are not in the same physical space. GM famously defined their expectations during covid were for their people to “work appropriately.” That meant that many new team members joined the company in remote roles, and many long-time employees found that they could do their jobs from home.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Way back in January 2014, in an issue of McKinsey Quarterly , a group of researchers attempted to answer this question: “Why do so many leadership development programs fail?” They summarized their finding into the four main issues that led to a lack of results in most leadership development programs. Here is a short synopsis of those four reasons they identified: 1.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 10, 2022

Successful organizational change can be a challenge for leaders. Even when leaders see the need and benefits of changing a process or a platform, the entire team must ultimately buy-in and make a commitment to adapt if the changes are to have a lasting and positive impact on productivity and results. According to Gartner , 46% of CIOs feel that culture is the most significant barrier to the success of their change plans… and it is the gap in understanding between C-suite and entry-level employee

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 1, 2022

Using ‘Would You Rather’ questions with your team is fun. They present two extreme situational options which requires the person to choose and explain their position… ‘Would You Rather’ questions help by inspiring laughter and conversation at work. The interesting discussions and debates between coworkers that result from introducing these “forced choice” options can increase employee morale and strengthen connections.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 15, 2022

Recent research has suggested that 80% of employees feel stressed due to ineffective communication in their organization ( GoRemotely 2020 ). But employees are not the only ones feeling overwhelmed or stressed by their jobs. Leaders and managers in every industry are struggling more with delegation. With the turnover that so many teams have experienced, new hires are more common – but the challenge of learning to delegate often exists in established workplace cultures.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 13, 2022

If you have attempted any workplace culture change initiative in the past, or plan on implementing a new program or protocol in the future, this article is for you. Because you will need to inspire your team buy-in to get the behaviors that will move the meter on the change you want to make. And the reality is that ALL organizational progress and growth depends on individuals making a commitment to progress and growth.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2022

Every year, for those who follow sports, there ae key dates on the calendar that fans of college football or basketball get excited about. Signing days! That is when coaches who have been enticing a young athlete and their family to commit to their school find out who is coming. Athletes across the country choose a school and are celebrated on sports talk radio… They are applauded on ESPN for their choice of a new place to work… It is very exciting.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Small links can sink great ships. That’s a saying you are probably familiar with. . And a leak of any kind can unexpectedly wreck your team culture. . In Rapid Teamwork I wrote about a management team learning how to build a more positive and profitable workplace culture from a wise river guide as they traveled down the Nantahala on a raft. If there had been a leak in that raft, it would have ruined their day ; ). .

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

When you explore other industries other than your initial focus, you can find new inspiration and in-depth areas behind concepts you otherwise would not have examined. Learning and applying these lessons can provide management insight and superior leadership qualities. Music plays a large part in many people’s lives, as a universal way of bringing people together with shared fondness.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 4, 2022

If you are introducing a new change initiative – or just looking for ways to develop the people on your team to improve their skills, it isn’t an easy job. Many people on your team will not immediately seem excited and enthusiastic about the change that you are about to introduce – or are already in the middle of implementing. In working with organizations for years as a workplace culture change speaker, I have observed four distinctly different mindsets that people display as the member of a te

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What does WINNING mean to you and your team? More sales and satisfied clients? More support from co-workers? More smiles and enjoyment each day? REGARDLESS of your industry, I guarantee that WINNING will require you to build a more positive and profitable team CULTURE – . And that requires you to value and encourage psychological team safety. Culture is the environment that your people live in – like water for fish….

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Why should you BE COACHABLE ? I spent two decades in locker rooms coaching basketball before transitioning to share those lessons with leaders in other industries as a conference speaker and author. And it was ALWAYS clear who the most talented athletes were at the beginning of our season. In a similar way, you probably know who your TOP TALENT is right now.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

If you are reading this article, then either you or someone on your team needs to develop a more coachable mindset. The issue, as many people have found, is that when you do not have a coachable mindset, you remain stuck and find excuses for the lack of results that stubbornness delivers. And for people that work with un-coachable coworkers, there is a constant struggle that comes with enduring the behaviors of someone who refuses to change.

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