Team Building

Last week I introduced the third behavioral change, Alignment and Collaboration, in creating a company culture that aligns individual productivity with team values and goals, and the importance of changing the culture to be solution-oriented rather than placing blame. In today’s post I address the fourth aspect, Implementing Strategic Goals. • Proactive vs. Reactive • Focus vs.…

A few weeks ago I introduced four aspects for creating a company culture that align individual productivity with team values and goals. So far I have discussed the first two of the four aspects of culture and culture change as they relate to self-management and leading others using daily behavioral changes: • Proactive vs. Reactive • Focus…

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 two blog posts, “Are Your Executive Teams Looking Up for Answers?”and “Are Your Teams Taking Accountability for Their Results?” I discussed the importance of making team alignment a priority by scheduling regular team meetings, and I provided the outline for the first two meetings of four as a way of creating a…

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. …