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March 10th, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
I’ve been writing quite a bit lately about teams and I wanted to continue with a look at different roles that team members take during team interactions.
When we work on something collaboratively in a team setting we are all trying to accomplish a shared goal. As I’ve mentioned before, one of the best ways to promote teamwork and to create a high performing team is to be a better team member. Part of being a good team member is identifying the appropriate role that needs to be played at any given time.
Jim Clawsen, who is [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2010 |
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes
It’s time again for the Leadership Development Blog Carnival. This month’s blog carnival is host by Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership. Since it was posted last night, Dan chose as this month’s theme the Academy Awards, calling this the Academy Awards Edition of the carnival.
This month’s edition has 41 great entries and I’m again honored to be included.
As always, the blog carnival does not disappoint. There are a number of posts that I previously read since they are from my favorite bloggers, but there are also a good number of posts I had missed this [...]
Posted on March 4th, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
In a previous article I looked at some of the challenges to being a team. Many of the challenges that I looked at were related to the creation, care, and feeding of a team. While we’ve all heard that “there is no ‘I’ in team” teams are absolutely made up of individuals. The one individual on the team in particular that I want to look at is ourselves. There are things we can do as individuals to help us be better team members, which will lead to better and stronger teams.
There has been much written [...]
Posted on March 1st, 2010 |
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
Leaders are supposed to be the keepers of the vision. We expect our leaders to not only have a vision of where we want and need to go, but also to be able to hold that vision up for us to see. This doesn’t just mean the big vision with a capital “V”, it also means the goals that we have to meet.
But what happens when things get in the way? As leaders we have to make sure that we are able to quickly and effectively get ourselves and everyone else back on track.
Things Got [...]
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