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What is The Agile Organization?
In a fast-moving competitive environment, where new technology can disrupt everything overnight, is Adhocracy nimble enough? Do we need an Agile Organization?
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LEAD Your Team: 4 Team Leadership Priorities
Here is a very simple model of four team leadership priorities - which spell out LEAD. Can you guess what they are?
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Four Quadrants of Team Leadership
A team can focus on two things: task and relationship. And, for each, there are 2 elements: the content and the process. This gives us 4 quadrants of team leadership.
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What is the Team Leadership Continuum? [Tannenbaum & Schmidt]
Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Schmidt set out a range of leadership behaviours. This model gives us a powerful team leadership continuum.
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Daniel Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders
In his book, The New Leaders, Daniel Goleman and his co-authors set out 6 leadership styles for team leaders.
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Supporting Your Team Under Pressure: Return to High-Performance
When you have a team under pressure, what can you do to support them and return them to a high-performance state?
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Supporting Your Team through Team Stress: 4 Steps
Under pressure, teams get stressed. Team leaders need to be able to spot the signs of stress and support your team through stress.
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How to Support Your Team through Change - 6 Steps
Change can be stressful. But it also brings with it, its own distinctive challenges. With change an almost constant feature of many workplaces, your ability to support your team through change is now a core skill for a team leader.
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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Teams
Diversity can improve results. But plenty of research shows that multicultural teams and diverse teams tend to perform less effectively than homogenous teams, when not managed well. In this video, I introduce the topic of cross-cultural...
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Developing Cross-Cultural Awareness: The Stages
What is the process for creating deep cross-cultural awareness and moving towards leading cross-cultural teams effectively?
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Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Differences: 10 of the Biggest
We can think of cross-cultural differences as different average positions along a number of scales from one extreme to another. Let’s look at ten of the most important of these scales.
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Introduction to Managing Remote Teams
Perhaps the biggest challenge for a Team Leader is managing a remote team. We evolved to work together in small groups and in a small area. Now, managing remote teams can involve people all over the globe. This throws up many challenges,...
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Maintaining Productivity in Your Remote Team
Perhaps the core challenge of managing a virtual team is finding ways that we can work together effectively and productively, despite or even because of our geographic separation and cultural differences. The answer is well-formed...
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Margerison McCann: The Team Management Wheel
Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed one of the leading tools to help managers with team performance: the Team Management Wheel.
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What are Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases for Team Development?
Kurt Lewin is one of the giants of 20th Century psychology. And one of his best contributions is Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases model of how people go through transitions.
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Teamwork: Providing for Your Team
Providing for your team is an important part of leadership. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. This is sometimes known as ‘servant leadership’.
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Teamwork: Your Team's Skills and Expertise
Do you have a clear understanding of your team's skills and expertise? And what are you doing to develop them for breadth, depth, and balance?
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Teamwork: Problem Solving with Your Team
One of the joys of really great teamwork is the enormous scope for creative thinking and innovative problem solving. Team problem solving is great!
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Supporting Your Team through Conflict: 3+1 Roles to Play
Teams don’t always run smoothly. You can get conflict within your team and conflict between your team and other teams or outsiders. As team leader, it can fall to you to support your team through this conflict. And there are three (plus...
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How to Support Your Team for Learning: 7 Things
A big part of how I see my responsibilities as a team leader is in developing the skills, talents, and knowledge of the people under my care. I need to support them for learning.
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Tips for Cross-Cultural Working: 10 + 1 Bonus
In readying yourself to lead cross-cultural teams, here are ten of my best practical tips... with a bonus on the end!
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Creating Trust in Remote Teams
Humans have evolved to work together in small, close-knit groups, often based around family relationships. These allow for slow and deep relationships to form, that are the basis of common understanding and mutual trust. Remote teams...
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Helping Build Understanding in Your Remote Team
A vital part of your role in leading a virtual, or remote team is helping everyone to understand one another’s cultures, expectations, and norms of behavior.
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Creating Connection and Building Culture in Your Remote Team
Building connection and creating a distinctive culture will be far harder with a remote team. You must take the lead in making efforts to communicate well.