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How to Get The Best Ideas From Your Team AND Your Expanded Team Part I

People with different experiences and backgrounds see things differently. These include differences in age, gender, race, occupation, and anything else that makes us different from one another. Ben Franklin’s junto was made up of twelve individuals, and included three from the field of printing, a scrivener who loved poetry and natural history, a glazier [...]

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Is Your Team in Trouble?

Be on the lookout for these signs…

Every team has trouble at some point. When someone tells me their team is always running smoothly with never an issue to be addressed, I immediately ask them how connected they are to their team. At some point your team is going to have an issue that [...]

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Managing the Cubicle

Rarely do employees have offices; in fact, in a number of organizations, even management level employees do not have office space. For those individuals who grew up with office space designated for employees (at a minimum for those in supervisory level roles and higher), getting used to working “out in the open” is difficult. [...]

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How Good Are You at Building a Team?

Are you giving them the start they need?

Too often we don’t take the time to really build a strong project team. That’s a real shame because in order for a team to be effective and successful at what they are tasked to do, they must have a good start. A good start means [...]

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Factors that Create Effective and Successful Project Teams

Creating an effective and successful project team – one that works well together to meet the project objectives – is a combination of a number of factors. Certainly, as a team leader, understanding the five stages of team development and how those stages impact the team is essential to you developing a high performing [...]