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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.
Teammates on the Bench? Team BUILD with Connect, Create, Contribute
I liked playing soccer and being part of the team. I didn’t mind being on the bench. The reality was I was relieved to be on the bench because the bench was safer than showing I wasn’t very good...risking personal or team embarrassment. The bench didn’t make me a...
Solving Volunteer Engagement…by Creating Value
Recently I coordinated a group of volunteers and at the last minute one of the volunteers I was relying on backed out! This left the team scrambling to find coverage. ARGH!! Do you work with volunteers on your team? Have you had this happen? In some ways every member...
One Essential Component to a Great Team
I’ve been part of some all-star teams and some real duds. How about you? Do you have theories on why some failed where others succeeded? Creating an all-star team sometimes seems to be more art than science…maybe even a bit of luck. We at eNthusaProve have always...
Puzzled about Priorities? Prioritization Skill Building
Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in priorities? Too many projects, ideas, or initiatives…and there is never enough time or resources! We have seen this sneaky tyranny gobble up more than one leader and team. The laundry list of initiatives or tasks your team (or...
Two Simple Project Management Tools that Pack a Punch for Teams
When you look for project management tools, it is so easy to become overwhelmed by the Project Management Body of Knowledge’s 10 knowledge areas, 47 processes which create plans, documentation, and checklists. I know when I opened the PMBoK for the first time, it...
Building Team Commitment: Choose to Connect
One of the struggles Paul and I hear often when working with teams is lack of commitment. Those that are committed to the effort look at those that aren’t and just scratch their heads. Why don’t you care? Don’t you see the value in what we are doing? If you could only...
Team Connection Builder: Systematize for Better Connections
This post is all about being intentional with your team to build rapport with your teammates. That way, when things get hard (and they always do), you've laid the groundwork for trust to weather the storm. I know that you care about enabling joy on your team just...
Team Conversations: How to Get Teams to Gel
Team conversations can be hard at the beginning...usually described in one word…awkward! You gather around a table for a kickoff meeting and make small talk, work on a laptop, or scroll through the feed on your smartphone until someone gets things started. The team...
Seven Lessons about Leading Teams I Learned from Nettles
For those who hike or are into wild natural foods, you have likely heard of stinging nettles, sometimes referred to as burn hazel. However, for most folks, this seeming weed remains a misunderstood member of the botanical world. When my wife and I bought our hobby...
Need Out of the Box Thinking? Get off the typical road!
Struggling to get your team to think creatively? Are you looking for innovation by trying the same old strategy of "think outside the box?" Struggling to get them to move past the same old answer? Try this approach – it’s how I get my GPS…and teams… to creatively...