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Surprising things that suggest you are on a high performing team
You might be surprised to learn what I look for to know if a team is healthy. Some of these are obvious signs of the health of your team, some are less so. How is your team doing? You spend precious...
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Turn the complainer into the contributor
When we at Knightsbridge conduct a Vital Teams intervention™ with our clients, we pair a group dynamics expert with an expert in individual behavior. This tag team approach moves teams ahead by...
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Liane’s Back to Basics Listening Drill
How well do you really listen? Listening is one of those skills that you might think is easy. In reality, creating a high fidelity connection is difficult in a one-on-one conversation and darned near...
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Book Review: Conversational Capacity
One of my clients was kind enough to give me a copy of the new book Conversational Capacity by Craig Weber. I’m sharing it with you because the core idea of this book is powerful and when practiced...
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Short-circuiting Conflict
This is the second part of a post inspired by a guest post I did for Tanveer Naseer’s blog. The guest post and the first and second installments of this post explore how your biases and prejudices...
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How to work with emotional data
In my previous post, I focused on the importance on factoring in the emotional aspects of an issue when your team is struggling or experiencing conflict. If you didn’t read that post, start there...
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One trick to turn a useless meeting into effective communication
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite with an opportunity to...
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5 busy person mistakes to avoid
I bet you’re a busy person. Don’t believe me, see for yourself…Does your task list equate to more hours than you have in the day? Do you routinely have to finish work in the evenings or on weekends...
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Wasted time in meetings
Teams, and especially executive teams, spend way too much time in the weeds. It’s a colossal waste of precious time together and, in my experience, the main reason why people are so fed up with...
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5 steps for better presentations
There are almost infinite posts in the blogosphere about how to give better presentations. If you want good ones, try www.PublicWords.com by Dr. Nick Morgan. Today, I’m dedicating this space not to...
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