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Welcome Project Team Leader!
This is a blog specifically targeted to you, the Project Team Leader, to enable joy in work in your team. You are in a unique position…you aren’t the boss, but you have authority. The people working on the team do not have to give you 100% (because they report to someone else) AND they are vital for the team to succeed. Ooof.
The goal of this blog is to equip and encourage you for the journey. You and your teams are workhorses of progress. Most new products/services started because of a cross-functional team. Everyone wants innovation, and these teams and team leaders make it happen. Our goal here is to help you, the Team Leader, build a team that wants to work together and succeeds.
Not Aligned or Not In Agreement? 4 Steps to Seeing the Difference
“I need to realign their expectations.” “We don’t seem to be in alignment anymore.” Sound familiar? Are these really about alignment or are we using the word alignment as a euphemism word for agreement? Alignment and agreement are not the same. This came to light...
Passion or Purpose – What’s Enabling Your Joy?
As parents, teachers or coaches, we are often telling those we are entrusted with to ‘pursue your passion.’ This sounds noble because we don’t want to be telling them to go out and get a job that, as long as it makes good money, it doesn’t really matter how miserable...
Lightning Round – Getting Through Storm to Perform!
The Lightning Round to guide your team through storming to performing When a team starts working together, it's all well and good...for a while. Then the "storm" hits. Conflict and tensions rise. What is a leader to do? This is a critical point in a team's...
Leaders Measuring! Considering the Emotional Bank Account in Metrics
What gets measured gets done. This is a classic leadership quip that precedes most conversations on metrics. I tell you that line haunts me sometimes. We’ve talked about metrics before. (See our post on An Amazing Use of Metrics). It’s Paul here; I am finding that...
Gamification: Are your efforts actually hurting your team?
What is gamification? Gamification is the practice of adding game-like elements to work to pursue goals through good-willed competition. It’s adding fun into the workplace. For example: Virtual reality problem-solving video games, Games that help us generate ideas,...
Selecting the Right Team Leader for a Project
You’ve got a project staffing up that you need to pick someone to take the Team Lead role. Selecting the right person is always a bit nerve wracking. How do you make that selection? [socialpoll id="2520357"] All of these...
The Secret of Leadership? Enable Joy
Check out this article on iSixSigma as well. Thank you to iSixSigma for publishing! We are all members of teams of one type or another, but have you ever stopped to think about how to lead a team well when you aren’t the boss? There’s a plethora of advice...
Aspirational Leadership: Inspiring the aspirational journey by example
In our last blog, we shared some ideas about the necessity for a leader to follow their inspiration with enabling each person to aspire to a goal. One of our astute readers, we will call him Sam Adams because he’s a devout patriot, sent me this feedback: “If the...
Aspire: The ingredient after inspiring change
Inspire Change. How do we actually do that, and move from buzzword to real world? I recently saw “Inspiring change” in the May 4th front page of the Central Penn Business Journal. It reminded me that I love that term. Yet, for years I led and facilitated teams to...
3 Simple Matrices for Powerful Team Communication
Do you have lots of ideas, facts, suggestions, topics, … strewn around your team’s thoughts? Looking for ways to prioritize? Been there. We’ve found a simple tool to keep complex topics visible, which is a great aid for team learning and decision making. It’s a...