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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.
Building Boot Camp into Your Team
Memorial Day honors all those in the military who have paid the supreme price to preserve our American privilege of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Please take a moment to think of those brave men and women this weekend, especially when you drive past a...
Spring! The Organic Side of Team Building
Have you seen spring yet? Here in central Pennsylvania we are seeing a very slow appearance of spring, with cold temperatures and April snow. May is bringing a glimmer of hope that spring is coming! This time of year brings to my mind that teams trying to bring new...
Encouraging Millennial Leaders without Annoying Everyone Else
A decade-ish ago, the Millennial generation started entering the workforce. I am on the fringes of a Millennial, which some call xennials. I remember being one of the first “explorers” of the workforce before the Millennial tidal wave started rolling in the door...
Fear of Change? A change management solution…Enabling Joy!
Change is happening all around us, and some welcome it and others spurn it. Organizational change is inevitable and many of the teams we work with are struggling through some sort of change. This can be reorganization, market changes, customer behavior changes,...
A Well-Rounded Teammate: Diversity Your Team Needs
Were you taught to work on your weaknesses, hearing that the best teammates are well-rounded? We are told to expose children to lots of experiences, building a wide array of strengths because we want to both open our children to the broadest array of opportunities and...
Leading Change: Making New Connections in Our Brains
Leading change. This world changes so fast it is hard to keep up most of the time. With all this change around us, do we change? How does successful change happen? A Story about Brain Habits We put up with a crazy faucet in my house for years. In order to get it to...
Getting the Innovative Ideas Your Business Needs
Yesterday, I was confronted with one of those moments as a mom. The kids slept long enough for me to have a shower (YAY!) and we were going through our morning routine. I went to change the baby and was surprised that my toddler was quietly playing by himself in the...
An Amazing Use of Metrics: Looking for Disconnection
The tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida pains our hearts and rightly we all want to find ways to prevent this from happening ever again. But in the noise that batters the airwaves about new laws and such, we found a quiet example of...
Valentines Day – Be my…Teammate?
(Hey - heads up...I got a great feedback from a friend on this post. To respect his need for privacy, I've added it below myself. But, this is a fine example of how good friends air differences and still respect each other.) Today is Valentine’s Day, both a...
Groundhog Day and the Makings of Useful Statistics
Groundhog Day has come and passed, and that furry little prognosticator has said there will be six more weeks of winter. Since we are stuck inside, we are biding our time by being statistics nerds. That led us to take a look at Punxsutawney Phil's analysis...
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