Culture of Collaboration

The new neuroscience that is studying the brain and how it works shows that novelty, challenge, connection and creative expressions create the charge that brings in greater productivity individually, and when collaboration is a focus, creates greater overall business results. I have been talking about the process of team alignment and harnessing the power of your organization in my…

I have spent a number of years working with individual leaders and leadership teams to help them create a company culture that aligns individual productivity with team values and goals. In order to create this type of culture, productivity must be integrated into the management structure of an organization; individual leadership behaviors that relate to…

In my last blog post “Are Your Executive Teams Looking Up for Answers?” I talked about the importance of the Communication component in the Team Alignment process and suggested you make it a priority to schedule in advance a team meeting each week for the next four weeks. Hopefully you have had your first meeting by…

This month I continue traveling cross country working with organizations, their teams and individuals helping them move into updated organizational networks, with new outlooks about the importance of teams and team alignment. My latest work has been in financial services, a national lab, and a national nonprofit. In all of these companies the status quo…

It has been a very active summer and I have traveled across the country working with individuals and teams as organizations continue to change and move into new organizational models requiring a new outlook about the importance of teams and alignment. Have you noticed that it is not “business as usual”? I think we thought…

Organizations today are engaged more and more in managing change at a rapid rate.  Those changes include the need to redefine the organization, change staffing structures, introduce new processes both internally and externally and refine products.  Results show that a focus on team interaction or Team Alignment is a key factor in managing organization teams. …

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…