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It seems that Communication, Connection and Relationship as important priorities are more necessary now. Today am discusssing an important part of the Communication process that is one leg of the tripod. I traveled the country this month to introduce and facilitate team alignment in several organizations. I am fortunate to experience firsthand the power of communication and connection. […]

Collaboration is crucial for success. When motivation and productivity are down, people wander in distraction rather than contribute to the solutions. Lack of teamwork contributes to loss of money, loss of direction, slow or no growth and smaller market share. Leaders become frustrated with the lack of progress of units or teams. Below are a […]

  Initial Situation: The Leadership team of a mid-sized global company was meeting irregularly with little communication except during a crisis. The communication that did occur was on the run, without informing all members of the team creating misalignment between the business units. The result was competition and fear of honest opinion sharing as well […]

This week’s Case Study focuses on Time Management:   As part of a larger Executive Team project, I coached the COO of a mid- sized company who was feeling overwhelmed and wanted to establish better time management and the ability to complete projects without a sense of crisis and evening and weekend work. He was […]

This Case Study relates to Executive Burnout and the withdrawal of participation. I have heard this called Retirement on the Job.   Initial Situation: The President of a mid-sized financial services corporation was uninvolved with the executive team. Although he was social and polite he had stopped any innovative input into meetings and was uninvolved. […]

In my experience, leaders are often called upon to bring forward the latest innovations and business ideas in the larger universe. But often they make the mistake of being involved in the micromanagement of the units within the business and are not available to the larger business community. In addition, many top executives are not […]

My next case study focuses on accountability.   Initial situation: Team building process for an executive team that was working in silos. Many assumptions about each other were operating plus the lack of trust that can come from competition. Instead of cooperation and collaboration there was blaming and indirect communication around goals and results. Strategic […]

I am excited to share with you a series of case studies I put together relating to the benefits of collaboration and team alignment. This week’s study focuses specifically on team alignment. What the Situation Was like Before: This is a team of designers/engineers coupled with an implementation team that constructs the designs. Communication and […]

Positive results with Collaboration as a Target are:  Accountability, Solution Focused Discussions and Activity, Effective Teams and Strategic Results We are sure that at least one of the above results has been missing and can be pointed to as a reason for lack of achievement.  Some of the conditions listed below bring a greater challenge […]