Trust is at the heart of building great teams. Without it, a cascade of negative things that hurt the team takes place: reluctance to have healthy conflict, unwillingness to make commitments, avoidance of accountability, and a failure to look at real results...
Back when we taught at your team-building retreat we talked about the Eight Characteristics of a Great Team. Can you remember any of the characteristics? (I’ve listed them all for you at the bottom of this post if you want a reminder.) One of them is trust. When...
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD365, although all are welcome to read it. It was originally published on November 30, 2015.) A few weeks back we had a man come to do some work on our living room carpet, and he and I started to slide our very heavy couch out of...
Back in December I shared a music video from the band Ok Go. I so highly value creativity, art, and music that I could post on something like that every week, but I hold back. Recently, though, our Leading by DESIGN team has been talking about innovation, which we...
Part of building great teams is getting the right people on the bus. And getting the right people on the bus means having a great onboarding process. This is indispensable to helping them get started on the right foot. Onboarding looks a little different with each...
I’ve served on a whole lot of teams in my life, some great, some not-so-great, and I can say without hesitation that the team I work with at Leading by DESIGN is the best, healthiest, most connected team I’ve worked on. I think the four of us (Rodger,...
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