You just assigned your team a new project. Their enthusiasm is, well, remarkably luke-warm. How do you build a fire under them to get them behind the project? Here are four steps to kindle the flames of team commitment. Build trust. Trust is the foundation for everything that is good and positive on a team. [...]
Conflict. Some of us really don’t like conflict. We would much rather get along than get cross with each other, and a workplace where people are nice to each other is a good thing, right? Well, actually not. Being “nice” feels comfortable but may not be a very healthy or productive place to work. “Nice” [...]
Sick Teams usually share one thing in common: They don’t trust each other. How do you fix a team that doesn’t trust? First of all, agree on what it means to trust each other. Most of us define it as Predictive Trust. We trust each other to complete our [...]
