One of the messages we deliver in many client meetings is, “Look around the table. Ask yourself, ‘What can I do to help everyone else at this table be a superstar?’” Too often in corporate culture, we focus exclusively on our job, our role, our responsibilities. We never pick our head up to see what… Continue reading Helping Each Other: High-Performing Teams Actively Lend a Hand
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Category: Leadership-Executive Coaching
Priorities: High-performing Teams Know What Comes First
If your team has twenty or thirty items on its “to do” list, we have one word of advice for you: don’t. Don’t scramble to try to get everything done at once. That is a surefire recipe for increased stress, wasted energy, and missed goals. High-performing teams recognize that to go fast, they have to… Continue reading Priorities: High-performing Teams Know What Comes First
Conflict: High-performing Teams Are Willing to Enter the Ring
When you think about a high-performing team, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not “This is a place where conflict happens.” Most people assume that the absence of conflict makes for a high-performing team. In a twist of irony, the opposite is actually the truth. Patrick Lencioni, in his book The Five… Continue reading Conflict: High-performing Teams Are Willing to Enter the Ring
Accountability: A Positive Word for High-Performing Teams
More concerns and complaints have been raised about accountability among our clients than perhaps any other area of leadership. The theme of these concerns and complaints is always the same: accountability is about punishment, confrontation, failure, and blame. Yet, high-performing teams invariably practice accountability. The team members consistently hold themselves and each other accountable. And… Continue reading Accountability: A Positive Word for High-Performing Teams
Trust: The Foundation of High-performing Teams
In our first blog in this series, we shared our “top ten” list of characteristics that define high-performing teams. Now, it’s time to get down to business and talk about each of those characteristics in greater depth so you can take action to improve your team’s performance. We start with the foundation that all the… Continue reading Trust: The Foundation of High-performing Teams
10 Characteristics of High-performing Teams
There are times when a certain person says something and no one can say it better. This quote from Patrick Lencioni in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable falls into that category: “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so… Continue reading 10 Characteristics of High-performing Teams