Team Building

This week I am in beautiful Palm Desert California at the Global Institute of Leadership Development. This is my eighth year attending as a coach and sometime team leader for the executives and teams who attend in order to expand their leadership and their approach to business. I am happy to be here to hear […]

I always think of this time of year as a new beginning. I think it comes from the many years I was a student and I always thought of this time as a new start where I was going to get new information, new awareness and become more personally effective. In my last post I […]

I recently met with the Santa Fe Opera to discuss the collaborative leadership dynamic on their executive team, as well as how performances are created over a period of a few months. As usual, I discovered that the process is much longer and more involved than it looks from the outside. What seems to take […]

Ask yourself if these are thoughts you’ve had, or if you have heard these thoughts from others; and what price your organization pays when these situations occur. We do not function as a team. I have no idea what “they” are doing. I am asked questions that I cannot answer. My boss never lets me […]

In past posts I have shared the development of the Collaborative Leadership process and the Strategic Planning aspect taken directly from my experience in working with top level executive teams, and organizing and attending their strategic planning meetings where collaborative discussion takes place and strategies are created. However, during the ensuing year, I’ve noticed that […]

While everyone agrees collaboration creates results, resistance to spending the time and resources to allow for teams to learn how to collaborate effectively has led to isolated, disconnected employees (I-Pods) rather than more productive, collaborative teams (We-Pods). I am part of the shift towards the Collaborative Leadership Model and to creating a collaborative culture that will […]

In today’ post, I would like to particularly acknowledge all of you in the Bridging Associates Community for moving to create more focus on the elements of communication and connection within your teams that lead to greater success. In working with leaders and their teams, my experience has shown me that as they begin to […]

Today’s post discusses Solution-Focus, the last element of the High Performance Model I have been sharing with you that will help tranform your organization from an I-Pod to a We-Pod culture. So far I have given you tips on: Creating a 4 meeting jump-start process for your team Improving Communication to create quality connection and alignment, the four parts […]

In previous posts I have promised to take a deeper dive into each component of the upcoming class, Jump-Start Your Team. The entire focus is to jump from the I-Pod to the We-Pod as a culture. Today I’d like talk about the accountability aspect of collaborative leadership and high performance. When using a process like the […]