You know that your team is conflict avoidant. You know it’s preventing you from surfacing issues, thoroughly discussing them, and getting them resolved effectively. You really want to make it better, but how do you start? The people on your team (and maybe even your boss) are seriously unwilling to broach any subject that might […]
I’ve watched you do it. While you’re presenting your content at the meeting, you’re interested and engaged and you add so much value. I love your passion and your feisty defense of your plan. But then someone else takes the floor and in the blink of an eye you’re a different person. The presentation clearly […]
Trust is the basis of a healthy team dynamic. Too little trust and you won’t open up, won’t bother sharing your unique value, and won’t have the courage to broach difficult topics. Without trust, much of the value of the team is left unrealized. If you want to increase trust on your team, there are […]
Tomorrow is the end of another school year for my daughter Mac. She’s just finishing grade 3 and a year’s worth of schoolwork is coming home in her backpack. I always enjoy looking at my kids’ work, but this time there was something really cool…something that can teach us all an important lesson about teamwork. In […]
A while back, I wrote a post on LinkedIn asking whether the women on teams are leaning in. Read it here. I got one comment with a bit of a “blame the victim” message. I didn’t write to women to blame them, I wrote to women because I feel passionately about helping them add […]
I’ve been writing this blog for quite a while. I’ve shared the things I see as an executive team advisor, and I’ve exposed (and tried to be authentic about) the issues that I personally struggle with as a team member. But there’s one topic I haven’t touched with a 10 foot pole–crying. Crying is not […]
In my upcoming book, You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done, I talk about the five things you can do to change your team for the better. The first of these is to Start with a Positive Assumption. As team members, we each have a responsibility to overcome […]
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