Category Archives: Team Management

How Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Can Build Better Teams

Stephanie McGuinn — March 28, 2018 Follow @PIMidlantic— March 28, 2018 Whether you are an entrepreneur building your first startup company or a solo-founder attempting to grow a small business, the people you surround yourself with can make or break your company. Failure to execute when hiring and building company culture can send your business … Continue reading How Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Can Build Better Teams →

Diversity as a Competitive Advantage

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David Dame — March 27, 2018 — March 27, 2018 Last week I posted a comment on LinkedIn: “If an orchestra all played the same instrument, the music would sound dull. A diverse set of musicians with different sounds make dynamic music. An organization with a diversity of gender, race, sexuality, and disability make fuller … Continue reading Diversity as a Competitive Advantage →

Demotivation: 7 Ways You Might Be Killing Your Team’s Spirit

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Ken Downer — February 22, 2018 Follow @RapidStartLdr — February 22, 2018 Could your efforts to lead actually lead to demotivation? A team’s spirit means everything when it comes to productivity, engagement, and satisfaction. But sometimes, despite our best intentions, the way we lead can become a source of demotivation. Here are seven things you … Continue reading Demotivation: 7 Ways You Might Be Killing Your Team’s Spirit →

There is no ‘I’ in successful ABM

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Contributor John Steinert explains how alignment across an end-to-end process helps sustain and scale your program. John Steinert on February 8, 2018 When I saw this video of cadets helping each other scale a high wall, I was immediately struck by how planning, preparation and teamwork can clearly blow away making it up as you … Continue reading There is no ‘I’ in successful ABM →

Can Your Team Become Challenger Types?

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Gretchen Gordon — January 25, 2018 Follow @BraveheartSales — January 25, 2018 Ever since CEB (now Gartner) published The Challenger Sale in 2011, the book has attracted much publicity. It provides five different profiles (detailed here) based on research of 6,000 individuals. They are: Challenger Lone Wolf Hard Worker Problem Solver Relationship Builder The research … Continue reading Can Your Team Become Challenger Types? →

How to Build Trust Within a Cross-Functional Team

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Rick Lepsinger — December 5, 2017 Follow @onpoint_llc — December 5, 2017 Stock photo Trust is the foundation of any organization. On cross-functional teams, where collaboration between members of different functional units is a core part of effective day-to-day operations but when no one has direct authority over anyone else, trust is critical. However, it … Continue reading How to Build Trust Within a Cross-Functional Team →

How To Use The Power Of Calibration To Grow Teams

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Paul Keijzer — November 28, 2017 Follow @Paul_Keijzer — November 28, 2017 5arah / Pixabay Annual performance reviews are just around the corner for most organizations. This is the time when you’re meeting with your team members and discussing how well they did, where they need to improve and how you can support their development. … Continue reading How To Use The Power Of Calibration To Grow Teams →

4 Ways to Better Motivate Your Diverse Generational Teams

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Ken Sterling — November 14, 2017 Follow @ken_sterling — November 14, 2017 Have you ever noticed how your teams are a blend of different ages and motivations? Such diverse groups seem like they would be impossible to lead. That’s why bestselling authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton in their new book The Best Team Wins … Continue reading 4 Ways to Better Motivate Your Diverse Generational Teams →

Why Cross Functional Teams Fail and How to Ensure Yours Does Not

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Rick Lepsinger — November 10, 2017 Follow @onpoint_llc — November 10, 2017 There are several benefits to having cross-functional teams within an organization. This includes increased efficiency, faster decision-making, and more opportunities to share resources. However, there are also numerous challenges facing cross-functional teams—whether they share a co-located space or use a virtual environment to … Continue reading Why Cross Functional Teams Fail and How to Ensure Yours Does Not →

5 Tactics Leaders Use to Effectively Manage Matrix Teams

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Rick Lepsinger — October 30, 2017 Follow @onpoint_llc — October 30, 2017 Free-Photos / Pixabay If you are someone who works in a matrix structure, you likely already understand that there are many complexities that must be navigated each day. Having two or more reporting relationships in lieu of a single boss, and working with … Continue reading 5 Tactics Leaders Use to Effectively Manage Matrix Teams →