If there is one thing that appears to be an ongoing challenge in business that is completely independent of technology advancements or a generational mixture of co-workers it is the challenge of creating a team that helps to insure success of the combined efforts of its’ members. It really makes no difference if a team is Read More
Want A Productive and Successful Team? Try Camping!
Here we are … a new year filled with all of our related and identified goals. From the standpoint of our jobs, many of us enter the workplace determined to achieve the envisioned success … for ourselves and our organizations. So much of what we will be doing relies on working successfully with our team … a Read More
Political Polarization Comes to the Workplace … The Good and the Bad
It is frequently said that never, in the past several decades has our country ever experienced the degree of political polarization than that which exists today. What used to be the ability to have civil conversations with friends and family about our different views and the reasons for them, has, for many, gone out the Read More
How Negative Feelings Toward A Client or Co-worker Impacts Success
Over time we have blogged about maximizing team success by making certain all are focused on achieving the overriding goals. Understanding the value that each person offers to the collective effort and accepting that each person should view what they do as the ‘most important’ contribution to the overall success of the effort are important Read More
A Team’s Success As Related to the Value Placed On ALL Team Members
Many years ago I was invited to attend an open house of a company celebrating their move into a new office facility. As I roamed from office to office and department to department, I was greeted by those working in that area with a similar message. “Welcome to the most important department of this company” Read More
