The Challenges of DIY Leadership Development

In his HBR article What to Do About Mediocrity on Your Team [icon name="external-link" class="" unprefixed_class=""], Joseph Grenny observed, “The toughest test of a manager is not how they deal with poor performance — it’s how they address mediocrity.” Over the course of many, many conversations with team leaders from around the world, I’ve found Grenny’s observation to hold true. While it is tempting to immediately suggest practices that can help team leaders…

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The Importance of Transformational Team Communications

Complex global business environments, and the need for agility in both decision making and execution, are driving organizations towards ever greater collaboration and teamwork as the means of resolving challenges and creating competitive advantage. Most leaders agree that one key component in ensuring effective team functioning is the content and quality of communications to, and among, team members. Interestingly, I found – in both my work with teams and my research on team…

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