The Weakest Link 
We all know there is always a weakest link on any team (always someone else, of course!). As the old saying goes, "a team is only as strong as its weakest link".
Get Better Results - Build A Nimble, High-Performing Team
Do you twist arms to get employees to be on the team? If so, you might wonder if it’s worth even having a team.
Build Your Own BEST Team
Buddies who encourage success and truth (BEST). Take some time to review your business and think of people who have made a difference for you and for whom you have made a difference.
Rules Of Engagement
The 'elephant in the room' is more commonly used to describe an issue that goes unacknowledged by a team. The elephant might be inferred or subtly acknowledged, but in most cases, remains unnamed. Defining the rules of engagement can help your team focus on what is most important – performance.
'Locals,' 'Cosmopolitans' And Other Keys To Creating Successful Global Teams
Global teams are like oceans: Depending on how they are navigated, they can link the world together or split it apart. When global teams work, they tap into a company's top talent, exploit local expertise, unite far-flung groups and ramp up worldwide production. When they don't, they are divisive, spark massive miscommunication and drive global projects into the ground.
Building On The Strengths Of Your Team
Outstanding managers spend more time developing the strengths of individual team members than they do in correcting weaknesses. They encourage team members to continue to learn and grow rather than just settle for mediocrity. So how can you build on the strengths in your team?
Do More With Less - Create High Performing Teams
Is it possible to do more with less? Can a better service or product be created with fewer people? Can you downsize an organisation and still improve your performance?
21 Questions That Will Make Teamwork Work!
To assist and evaluate teambuilding efforts, I've developed a list of 21 key questions you need to answer to make teamwork work.
Good Teams Need Good Team Leaders
If you want to have successful teams in your organisation, make sure you have successful leaders. The way a team is led will have a major impact on the success - or otherwise - of the team.
Is Your Team In Trouble?
How is your team holding up under today's pressures? It's not unusual to find sensitivities running high and performance running low.
Strong Teams Made Easy
Research has identified what it takes to build strong and productive teams. The 12 factors identified are all associated with good morale, greater engagement, higher productivity, good working relationships both within and between teams, and greater customer satisfaction. Whether you are a manager or a team member, consider which of the following you can act on to help build a stronger and more productive team.
Executive Teamwork - Why Senior Staff Must Play Well Together
Creating a synergestic team of top leaders in an organisation is tough work. Selecting, managing personalities and relationships, establishing and enforcing norms, and developing executive team members is a complex process - but it can be done.
Eight Ways To Make Teams Work
No one says team-building is easy. It takes work to get a team functioning well. Here are some specific strategies that will help individuals get the most out of teamwork and have everyone contributing to the success of the team.
Discover The 4 Talents Every Project Needs To Be Successful
There are four meta-talents that are essential for success. Organisations - and especially teams - need all 4 meta-talents to implement work projects and change initiatives.
Building Teams
You can't buy a great team. You can invest in talented people and the best equipment, but an effective team can only be created through the courage and discipline of the team members.
How To Build Effective Teams
Fact: You need a great team in order to succeed. Fiction: You need to have that great team in place from the start. Building teams takes time.
Teamwork May Be Dead, But Long Live 'Teams That Work'
The traditional way we have developed teams may not be suitable in the future - but that does not mean that we have seen the end of teams. It just means that the emphasis has moved and the dynamics are different. Has your leadership style adapted enough to make the most of this brave new world?
Motivating Your Team
For a person to become motivated, they must work in an environment that fosters motivation. Paying close attention to the following factors will create that environment.
How Anyone Can Develop Effective Work Teams
The development of teams and teamwork has, until recently, been a Human Resources issue and categorised as "nice to have" rather than "must have". Programs designed to promote teams and teamwork were run in parallel with the "real" business of making a profit. Not the case in the current environment though.
Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 3
In the article Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 1 we examined the talent types Diamond and Club. The article Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 2 continued with Spade and Heart talents. This article outlines action ideas to integrate the four talent types.
Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 2
In the article Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 1 we examined the talent types Diamond and Club. This article continues with Spade and Heart talents.
Maximise The 4 Talent Types For Team Results - Part 1
Every individual on your team has unique talents. One person likes to launch new projects while another prefers tying up loose ends. Talent differences are useful - but sometimes they can lead to trouble. Our best talents also have a flip side. We can use our talents to a fault.
Teaming With Success
We're surrounded by examples of great, and not-so-great, teamwork. You too are a part of a variety of teams. How well you work together determines how successful you are. Are you teaming with success?
Allow Your Team To Purge
When gripes simmer away for long enough, they may cause a team member to start looking for greener grass elsewhere. Soon the team leader has to train new "sheep" - this one also looking for grass that's greener than their last workplace.
Leadership Strategies To Address Today’s Most Common Team Building Problems
Many CEOs are good business strategists; yet when it comes to integrating team approaches in the organisation, there’s no real strategy.
Why High Performing Teams Don't Perform
Ever wondered why 'High Performing Team' training often does not produce 'High Performing Teams'?
How To Make 'The Ask' - Effectively Recruiting Your Team
Many times in your life you will make requests of others: to join a group, committee or team, to perform a task or to assist with a project. How do you make "the ask"? Often the key to getting a "Yes" involves how you make your request.
Teamwork: The Heart Of Exceptional Performance
I’ve spent the last eight years exploring why teams succeed and fail in Formula 1 motor racing. So what is the secret of success? In one word, teamwork.
Managing Organisational Performance
There cannot be a CEO or a Divisional Manager anywhere who doesn't believe that the performance of their organisation could not be enhanced if only their employees displayed a greater sense of teamwork and motivation.
Build Integrity Into Self-Directing Teams
Putting self-direction into practice is challenging because it requires serious adjustments in the roles of managers.
Emotional Intelligence - Using It To Build An Effective Team
You have an important project to deliver and have built what you consider to be an excellent team. The members of the team are all experts in their field. You are confident that the project will be delivered on time and within budget, yet work begins to fall behind schedule. You find yourself needing to approve unbudgeted costs and before you know it you have failed to achieve the goals of the project.
Building Teamwork Within Your Business
Effective teamwork within a business can improve your relations with customers, generate higher quality results, and foster a sense of achievement.
Why Teamwork Does Not Work
The problem is that most people misunderstand teamwork and most importantly don’t know how to implement and facilitate the correct use of teamwork. People working cohesively and effectively as a team can achieve outstanding results however most teams achieve only a small percentage of what is possible.
Building Teams And Fostering Teamwork
Members of a fully functional team can be neither dependent nor independent; they must be interdependent within the context of a team relationship.
How To Mould A Team Out Of A Group Of Individuals
The very best managers are those who can gather together a group of individuals and mould them into a team. There is a distinct difference between pulling together a group of individuals to work on a project and developing a cohesive team. Why?
Teamwork
Getting the very best out of your next work group. Team building involves group members setting clear goals and results to get tasks done and for work satisfaction. Team building looks at defining the job that needs to get done and the way for doing that job. It does not look at personal issues between people.
Margerison and McCann - Team Management Index (TMI)
Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed Team Management Systems (TMS) - an integrated system of feedback instruments designed to improve the way people work together in any organisation and, thereby assist in the development of high performance teams.
Why Develop Teams
A company with well motivated, well balanced teams is an effective company. In the modern world, an ineffective company will not exist in the long term. Rod Margee, London Stock Exchange