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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.
Avoiding a team ‘shutdown’
Is your team on the brink of a “shutdown?” As a patriotic American, I am personally saddened and embarrassed by the recent government shutdown. I wonder what our friends (and enemies) in other countries think when they see the world’s most powerful country brought to...
Thinking Like Deming- Not easy, but very worthwhile
Book Review: "My heartfelt wish is that you are inspired to carry the message and the meaning in these pages into your life and your leadership to help your business enterprise and other organizations in your field of influence to develop and become sustainable...
Our Best Blog Share Yet
Welcome Jonathan Edward! January 9, 2018, Amanda and her family welcomed Jonathan Edward into this world. Baby and mom are doing great. Amanda will now have two in diapers, so she will be frequently experiencing the very essence of our book, Enabling Joy. For those...
Give up smoking “busy” for the new year
Stop smoking "Busy" Have you used the phrase: "I'm busy" lately? Have you used "I'm just so busy," as an excuse to not be involved with something or for not having visited someone? Have you described your workday as "busy"; your home life as "busy?" Then, I have a...
Leaders vs. Bosses at the Office Christmas Party
In the last few weeks, many of you have had a unique opportunity to interact with your co-workers...the office Christmas party. Here, we get to celebrate the year, have fun together, enjoy the company with whom we spend most of our waking hours...our coworkers, and...
One Game Changer for Better Problem Solving
What happens when your team encounters a problem? Moan. Complain. Ignore. Hide? Problem solving is a day-to-day occurrence for project teams. The team is in uncharted territory, creating something new, so things are bound to come up. The question is, what do we do...
Enabling Joy – Your Calling As a Leader: Our inaugural book
Have you ever found yourself... In a leadership role without formal authority for the team you are charged with leading A Leader of a project team, research team, product team, audit team, church committee, scout committee, athletic league, or, well the list could go...
Thanks Giving – Let’s make it a team habit
It's the week of Thanksgiving and each of us here are preparing to host our friends and relatives. What a blessing! We at eNthusaProve hope that you are similarly happily preparing for a celebration of thanks. What does Thanksgiving have to do with leading teams? We'd...
Teammates on the Bench? Team Building by CREATING value
In the last post, I shared with you my time as a soccer team bench warmer. What kept me on the bench wasn’t that different than what keeps your teammates (or yourself) on the bench of your project (i.e. not fully engaged with the work). This can happen for a myriad...
Leadership and Management Advice from the Forbes Essays
What if you could peer into 100 of the greatest business minds of our time? What do you think they would tell you? I subscribe to Forbes magazine because I like to listen to folks I normally wouldn’t, and I normally don’t hang out with billionaires, so I read...
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