Lack of trust is a common problem on teams and can lead to severe team dysfunction. Most trust issues can be avoided if you use these 10 techniques to get your team off on the right foot.
I received a great question from the ChangeYourTeam community recently: How long should it take after joining a team for a new member to be treated fairly? Of course the obvious answer is “no time!” I would hope that a new team member would be treated fairly right from the start. But I’m not […]
Have you lived through a time of uncertainty on your team? What did you learn about your comfort with ambiguity and your strategies for coping with a vacuum of information? You probably have your own way of handling these difficult situations and it’s important to be aware of your tendencies and the impact of these […]
It’s been a long, fantastic, exhausting day. I am sitting down to write and the ideas aren’t flowing so I asked my 8 year old daughter what she thought I should write about. She said “you need to write about how to start a good team.” That seemed like a pretty good idea to me, […]
Imagine being on a team that you’ve worked hard to nurture; a team that has finally reached the point where you’re trusting each other, collaborating well, and working efficiently. Now imagine that after all the effort and time invested, you’re told that you are moving to a new team. Aaaaahhh! This is what happened to […]
No, I’m not talking about a 1952 Mickey Mantle card from a pack of gum. I’m talking about the moment you got your first business card. Do you remember that moment? I do. I had just finished five years in graduate school. I was 26 years old and had just moved to the big city […]
A client recently made a comment that I hear all the time. “We haven’t worked together long enough to trust each other.” We can’t afford the luxury of years of shared experience before teams are high performing. So what’s to be done to reduce the time to trust? Here are a few guidelines. Trust first. […]
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