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How to Help Unify Your Team, And Align Yourself with Your Team’s Purpose

The mission to eliminate Osama Bin Laden had a clearly focused end point, but did not have a target goal date until the spring of 2011. A team with unity of purpose has everyone aligned—like a pack of wolves pursuing their prey. They are focused. Whether your team is a business project team or a […]

How to Recognize and Reward Your Teammates

According to Recognition Professionals International, “formal, informal and day-to-day recognition programs, when linked to the organization’s values and goals, can create a culture of recognition that enhances employee engagement, performance and retention.”

What types of recognition or rewards encourage YOU to do your best? If you like your work, that may be sufficient reward. For […]

How to Promote Perseverance in Yourself and Your Team

“You Can Get It If You Really Want.” Jimmy Cliff

Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the best model of perseverance ever known. He started two businesses that failed. His fiancée died; during the next year he suffered a nervous breakdown. He ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature; he was defeated in two runs for […]

3 Ways to Manage a Problem Team Member

We have all either managed a team or been involved with a team where there was one person that was just a thorn in your side; that one person who did not play well with others and frankly caused significant frustration and stress amongst the rest of the team members.

Too often we let it […]

How to Make Mentoring an Integral Part of Teamwork

A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide, tutor, or coach. This type of relationship has been effective when used to aid the protégé in acquiring new skills and settling into a new environment. Mentoring relationships have existed since Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great, and probably earlier. Throughout history, apprentices were, and are, guided by […]