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Exercise: Fostering a Culture of Productive Conflict
Too many leaders give their team permission to give feedback, to disagree, or to challenge one another’s ideas. Permission won’t drive action. If you want more healthy conflict on your team, stop giving people permission and start helping them appreciate their obligation.
read more10 Tips to Prevent Misalignment from Destroying Trust
Lack of trust is a common problem on teams and can lead to severe team dysfunction. Most trust issues can be avoided if you use these 10 techniques to get your team off on the right foot.
read moreAre you too busy to be curious?
If you want to be strategic, you need to be curious, but execution mode reduces creativity. Here’s how to get into the right mode to be strategic and innovative.
read moreWhat’s Wrong with Encouraging Failure
The term “fail fast” is in fashion now thanks to design thinking. Unfortunately, most leaders aren’t clear on what types of failures they’re looking for and what types should be avoided at all costs. This article outlines the difference.
read moreHow to Manage Conflict in Virtual Teams
Virtual teams are hard on relationships and they’re particularly challenging for productive conflict. But avoiding conflict on a remote team is just as harmful to both your business and your relationship as it is on a normal team. These tips will help you work through conflict with a remote colleague so you can get back to business.
read moreHow to Deal with a Person Who is Easily Offended
People get offended so easily these days. The trick is not to own their offence. Instead, use these techniques to engage them in a meaningful conversation where you both might learn something.
read morePassing on Feedback for Someone Else
Don’t get in the middle of feedback between your team. If someone comes to you, encourage them to share the feedback directly. Doing otherwise encourages passive-aggressiveness and reduces the value of feedback. Here are the steps to build that muscle in your team members.
read moreEveryone is Pitching Something. Including You.
Everyone is selling something these days, often themselves. The gig economy has us relying on friends to like, share, and refer and it can become too much sometimes. Tips and techniques to limit the damage self-promotion does to your life and your relationships.
read moreWhen Your Teammate Needs to Vent
Work is hard. Sometimes your teammates just need a safe place to vent. As long as it’s just venting, it’s not a problem. Learn the difference between venting, gossiping, commiserating, and wallowing and how to redirect a colleague if their venting turns into something more insidious.
read moreFacing Rejection
It’s incredibly frustrating to join a company as an agent of change only to be rejected by the people who need your help. Here are 8 strategies to use when resistance to change is directed at you.
read moreOne word that will make change easier for you
The difference between feeling in control of changes at work or feeling the victim is how you frame it. “I have to” or “I choose to.”
read moreLeading Through Change Part III: Resilience
Leading through change is incredibly difficult and requires significant energy, patience, self-control, and stamina. Use these techniques to build your resilience over the short-, medium-, and long-term.
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