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Why You Need a Friend at Work
For a team to operate at a baseline team members need to get along and have a basic respect for one another, for your team to operate at the highest level you need them to care about each other. In order to improve communication, teamwork, and morale you need to...
Why Should Your Company Have More Teambuilding Activities?
For companies that desire the best outcome from their workforce, teambuilding activities are an essential component. Employers always expect employees to work smart and not just hard; and while individual effort is important, a company cannot function successfully...
Safest Isn’t Always the Best! Leaders Manage Risk
“If you risk nothing, you risk more.” –Anonymous This statement encapsulates what you should do with risk: it shouldn’t be avoided. Rather, manage it carefully. Thinking clearly is often not possible for people who face a risky situation. However, an essential quality...
The Ultimate Feedback Technique of Today’s Leaders
According to the executives polled by The Ken Blanchard Companies, failure to provide feedback is listed as the top problem in leadership. “Failure to provide appropriate feedback and failure to involve people in decisions that impact them illustrate the importance of...
What’s Your Contribution?
By Shawn Stratton | Follow him on Twitter What’s Your Contribution? “Leadership is influence.” ~John C. Maxwell Leadership is an expansion of influence. You influence your friends, your family, and your community. What’s the ripple effect of your influence?...
Cultural Communication Norms
By Shawn Stratton | Follow him on Twitter North American teambuilding culture emphasizes the phrase thank you. Expressing appreciation and gratitude to others is highly valued in this culture and it helps to increase your chances of being helped in the future...
Don’t Tell Me, Show Me
By Shawn Stratton | Follow him on Twitter For you to earn respect as a leader, it is important that you show your team that you are knowledgeable, passionate, and committed to it and its stated goals. Your team relies on you as a leader not just to motivate or inspire...
Why You Don’t Get Along With Your Co-Leader
by Shawn Stratton | Follow Him on Twitter Here When it comes to working within a leadership team, knowing the leadership styles of those with whom you work increases your chances for success. A team may have one ultimate designated leader but in any effective...
The Most Important Quality in any Team Member
Working closely with a group of people for an extended period of time usually means that everyone gets to know one another fairly well. In addition to the basics—place of residence, marital status, and favorite sports teams—is there more personal information that a...
Managing Engineers
I am amazed at how little ingenuity is used in managing some of the world’s brightest and most creative minds. To ensure productivity and order, it is essential that a manager institute an organizational structure with clear job responsibilities and establish role...
