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Teams can be a very powerful way to solve problems and implement massive improvements.  But teams aren’t the right answer to every situation.

Do you have a team that is frustrated, not making progress, or unclear about expectations?  There is one single thing that can alleviate or eliminate these challenges and get the team off to a so...

The team charter is a document that serves as both guidance and a roadmap for any team’s success.   

When you are good, people will notice.  When you are excellent, they will rave.  Below are six steps that you can take to continue to raise your own standards of excellence.  These step...

The truth is, what we really need to do is work smarter not harder.  There are many things we can do to work harder, including building our skills, our capacities, our network, and our experience...

The bottom line is that we are complete humans, and as such we take our entire work knowledge home, and bring all of our personal knowledge and experience to work.  So any form of growth or devel...

The average person spends more time in meetings than they’d like to.  The average manager spends the majority of their workday in meetings.  Given these facts, shouldn’t meetings be more fun...

A lack of accountability is frustrating.  Tremendous productivity and efficiencies can be gained when more people are accountable for completing their tasks, commitments and expectations.

The world of work has changed. It used to be that most of us worked as a part of a process, whether on an assembly line, managing interactions with Customers, or any one of a thousand other processes....

We all use tools in our work, and all of these tools need to be re-energized in some way over time. They need to be polished, sharpened, refurbished. They need new spark plugs or a tune up. Some times...

Teams don’t have to be aligned with the goals of the organization. Teams can work on what they believe to be the right things. They can work diligently on creating the results they think matter. They ...

You have been named a new leader in your organization, or you are a long time leader with some new people in your organization. Or maybe you aren’t a formal leader but are working on an important new ...