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A Leader’s Role in High Performing Teams
When people hear the phrase “high performing team,” they often assume that means a perfect team – one without mistakes, conflict, or failure. In fact, the opposite is true. A
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How to Create a People First Culture
When I work with companies to help improve team functions and performance, someone in leadership inevitably asks, “Everyone talks about putting people first, but what does that really mean? What
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Creating a Culture of Collaboration and Teamwork
My first job out of college was working in a psychiatric hospital for emotionally disturbed children, and the entire organizational culture focused on developing teamwork. Why? Because our hospital’s leadership
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How do you Build a High Performing Team?
At cocktail parties (and networking events) when I tell people I facilitate team retreats, someone inevitably rolls their eyes and relates a teambuilding horror story. Often it has to do
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Setting A Rhythm of Accountability
In our previous post, we talked about getting your team’s commitment to change and overcoming their resistance to it. But getting everyone’s commitment it is not enough, you must also
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Get Your Team’s Commitment to Change, and Keep It
As we near the final steps of the Blueprint for Building a High-Performance Culture, we want to focus on commitment. As we have said in a previous post, leadership can
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To Achieve Culture Change, Identify Priority 1
Before we identify priority 1, let’s recap our previous steps. As we work our way through the Six Steps in the Blueprint for building a high-performing culture, we recall that
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Assess the Gap: What Is Getting in the Way of Culture Change?
Over the past four posts, we have been discussing the blueprint to a high-performing company culture. As with any journey on the road to culture change, we usually come to
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Keep Culture from Becoming Just a Words on the Wall
In our last post, we talked about using a blueprint to change your company’s culture to a high performing one based on team accountability. After highlighting the six steps in
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The Road to Change: A Blueprint for Building A High-Performance Culture
We have been talking a lot about change recently. Specifically, we have been talking about how to change company culture to achieve accountability and results. Up to this point, we’ve
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