Posts Tagged "team management"

Tweet Pin It Team Performance Management Dozens of teamwork training professionals have contributed to the research behind a new white paper on team performance… The new research is presented in detailed visual diagrams which expose the connections between poor team performance and the 4-parts of a team. Get the white paper: The 4 Hurdles of Team Performance. Check out the Team Building and Management...

Tweet Pin It The only time management worksheets I recommend… There are 3 time management worksheets that obsolete most other time management training worksheets in one fell swoop. Effective management does not happen through learning new techniques or exploring the logical philosophies of time management training programs. No. Good time management comes from practical applications worksheets that get straight to the heart of effective time management. A free white paper titled Exposing Productivity Gaps In Teams (how to invisibly ‘force’ your team to maximize their use of time’ has been made available and touches on the significance of time management worksheets and there source. If you...

Tweet Pin It Through the skills, interests, ambitions, friendships, and motivations of the people in your team, so shall you achieve your business mission. “Many leaders have personal visions that never get translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization. What has been lacking is a discipline for translating individual vision into shared vision” – Peter Senge, pre 1996 What are the skills of good team management? I don’t claim to know all of them… I think management skills include business skills, project management skills, communication skills, leadership skills, and much much more. Team building means strengthening an interdependent group of people for long-term...

Tweet Pin It From LinkedIn, someone asked: I use role-play often in training sessions but almost always encounter resistance to the “role-play” exercise. Thoughts? Experiences with role-play? Ways to counter the resistance? I don’t like doing role play myself. From my perspective as an INTJ (myers briggs personality type), I’m known as a Rational Mastermind (introspective, intuitive, thinking, judging). For people like me, I feel like role plays are 10% worthwhile, 90% self absorbed waste of time kids play. Whilst other personality types will enjoy and value role play. So ask the group what exercise they want to do, either a writing exercise or discussion, or alternatively a live role...

Tweet Pin It Why is teamwork training vital? Because no matter how social you are, or how professional you are, or how expert in your field, good teamwork is fraught with difficulty. An expert manager must be social, professional, and expert. A team brings greater leverage, but on the flip side, problems in a team can have a compounding effect on poor performance for each individual team member. And managing a team comes with a web of factors to untangle and control. So just… What are the constraints of teamwork? Differences in ideas, skills, motivations, even beliefs can constrain a team’s performance. A lack of resources and tools such as communication systems can slow a team down. Insufficient...

Tweet Pin It Real Time Management and Business Trends Business process management must use real time management systems ever more. The computer revolution was a precursor to a much bigger picture of rapidly advancing new technologies. The human genome project begun an even faster technology trend. In fact, we are going ‘exponential’ in business trends. And real time management suggests touching the cusp of the computer wave. Business at the speed of thought, or something like that, said Bill Gates as his company was increasingly outcompeted by Apple. But who knows which or who will take center stage just 5 years from now. We are in for a wild ride into a technological civilization. And real time...

Tweet Pin It If you manage a team, one of the most important considerations you make is how you should guide your team’s ongoing task management. Tonight I spoke with the manager of a set of 3 cafe / hotel’s. We discussed various elements of strength and weakness across the business, including location, clientele, pricing, etc. But the key insight was about team task management. Without successfully delegating, this manager was trying to do too much with not enough progress. One of his initiatives was to produce several process check-lists for his staff to follow. Do you think they do? The manager quietly complained to me that he thinks his stuff simply take a pen and put a tick next to every box...

Strategy exists at every level (as identified by Goldratt), both long-term and short-term, in every single decision and action of the organization.

Tweet Pin It It’s often a delicate topic… Most managers can look very bad if they report to their own manager that they need team management training… Why? What’s the problem? Are your direct reports running amok?  Are you incapable of achieving your assigned objectives even with all the resource you have available? Well truth be told, management teams really should be more open and enthusiastic about team management training — including for themselves, all the way up to the CEO. A wise company Chairman once told me “root cause analysis taken to it’s furthest point will almost always reveal that management is ultimately at the root cause of poor...

Tweet Pin It After more than a decade working in London UK, across a dozen industries, in many companies, including… …investment banks like Merrill Lynch, construction companies like Jarvis Projects, financial service companies like Digital Look, communications companies like Vodafone, ad agencies, and many others… …I have gradually developed and refined a staff management system that will make your job of team management far less stressful, much more effective — freeing you to tackle strategy of your department or of the business, rather than being constrained by poor personnel performance. [widget id="ad-continue-management"]Ad: continue-management[/widget]Pick up a copy of the...

Tweet Pin It Here are some tips on effective team management One Minute Praising Help people reach their full potential – catch them doing something right: praise people immediately tell people what they did right be specific tell people how good you felt about what they did right, and how it helps the organization and the other people who work there stop for a moment of silence to let them ‘feel’ how good you feel encourage them to do more of the same shake hands or touch people in a way that makes it clear that you support their success Effective Team Motivation A good coach is simultaneously the chief cheerleader and chief critic – both demanding and supporting. The best coaches...

Tweet Pin It Are team building workshops or courses worthwhile for your team right now in terms of: Budget Team building effectiveness Team Building Budget Imposing external consultancy is often costly. But effective team building activities can produce high ROI.  Team building events and team building workshops will introduce a good buzz for your team but first consider… Team Building Effectiveness External involvement may not suit your team.  If you have the steps necessary to build internal culture within the team then facilitating innovation and team building from inside can produce much deeper and longer lasting results. [widget id="ad-continue-management"]Ad: continue-management[/widget]Team...