Category Archives: Team Building

Recruiting Talent: Lessons from Unusual Yet Effective Approaches

By Verne Harnish When Dietmar Petutschnig needs to find great engineers for his manufacturing company, ISD Limited in Whangarei, New Zealand, he heads to the docks. ISD is focused on innovation in the agricultural sector. One pursuit, for instance, is …

Is It Time to Bring on a Business Partner?

How do you know when it is time to bring on a business partner? I just brought on an executive leadership partner, and am so excited for the great opportunities this will bring to AGI. My new partner, Lou Partenza, …

Sales Force Development Event in May

How are your business results this year? Are you achieving your goals or falling short? If you aren’t 100 percent satisfied with your team’s performance so far this year, it is time to think about how to build a high …

4 Ways to Create Linsanity on Your Team

Do you have a Jeremy Lin on your team? You might. You may think you understand the potential of every person on your team but the truth is, you could have unbelievable, untapped talent sitting “on the bench” just waiting …

Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team

In his book, Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Pat Lencioni identified team behaviors that reduce positive results in an organization. In my opinion, this book is a must-read for all managers and C-level leaders. As the company leader, you are …

Team-Building

STOP…wasting money on team-building exercises and retreats that, in the end, fail to bring about the desired results anyway. A significant reason that team-building initiatives fail is that too much emphasis is placed on the misconception that team-building should be …

Lead Your Team Meetings

Not many of us look forward to meetings. Whether you have them weekly, monthly, or quarterly, they are bound to be accompanied by groans and complaints. This is a problem. These negative responses towards team meetings may be because performance …

Conflict Avoidance Hurts Teamwork

By Howard Shore A great way to tell whether you have a strong team is by the amount of regular, healthy conflicts that occur in meetings when decisions are being made and if decisions are really being made at all. …

Trust is Essential For Teamwork and Maximizing Results

By Howard Shore Does your organization, project, or next big deal depend on teamwork? Well, how strong is the trust within your team? Trust is essential to maximizing results. Imagine that you are playing basketball. You are in the fourth …

What Impact Does Culture Change Have on Improving Results?

In Cindy Krischer Goodman’s article “Culture change: Just do it” (Miami Herald, 10/6/2010), there are two examples of successful cultural transformations in progress. If you missed the article, it was about how Barbara Simmons, CEO of Plantation General Hospital, has …


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