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Leading By Phone
For most of you in a formal or informal leadership role, working remotely provides a new set of challenges. How do you keep your team together? And how do you hold people accountable when you can’t see their work? How do you keep yourself together and on track? All...
Keeping Projects and Tasks on Track When You’re All in Different Locations
Written by Nicole O'Connor, our Project Manager: You are now working from home and so is your team. Before you were forced to work from home, you had your to-do lists and desk calendar filled with notes and activities. You were in the middle of multiple projects, as...
Tips for Working From Home
For many, working from home is a whole new experience with many challenges: physical, mental and emotional! Whether you live alone or with others, there is a lot to adjust to. You’ve made it through the first few weeks, but now that it looks like it could go on for a...
T.E.A.M. Communication Styles® – You’ve gotten the report… now what?
The T.E.A.M. report should give you a good feel for your communication style and how that may differ from others. You probably thought about some difficult people as you read through the other styles, and hopefully you’re now seeing them as “different” not...
The Key Ingredients to a Successful Change
An important skill for anyone in a leadership or strategic thinking role is working with others to bring about change. That’s a big topic, and we’ll start today by looking at the key ingredients for a successful change. During a change process, there is a great deal...
What is T.E.A.M. and How is it Useful?
Many years ago, I was looking for a simple, low cost communication and work styles assessment that my clients could afford. I couldn’t find one that fit the bill, so I created T.E.A.M. Communication Styles®. We’ve tested it with thousands of participants, including...
Dealing With Difficult People
In our last blog, we concluded our series on emotional intelligence, with the statement: If we can identify and address the feelings of others in a conflict situation, we can begin to find our way to some common understandings that in turn can lead to a positive...
Strategic Problem Solving
A strategic thinker is someone who thinks beyond the day to day, focuses on mission and goals and look at relationships from a stakeholder perspective. (See our last blog for more about this.) One of the key skills of a strategic thinker is problem solving. A...
Emotional Intelligence – Putting it All Together
Social skills is the final element of Emotional Intelligence – it relies on the three others we covered in earlier blogs - being more self-aware, regulating your own emotions and having empathy with others. Social skills are how you connect with others and influence...
Strategic Thinking
Recently, I was asked to teach a class on strategic thinking for employees at all levels, not just leaders. There are a lot of moving parts to this. In this issue we’ll present an overall framework for strategic thinking and in later issues we’ll explore...