Motivation - The Benefits of Spending Time with Your Team

One of the main benefits of spending time with your team is that it lets them know you're there to help with problems. Of course, you're not there necessarily to solve their problems but to coach them to solve their problems.

Feedback - Confirming the Good News

If you see or hear something you do like - you tell the team member about it. If you see or hear something you don't like or feel could be done better - you tell the team member about it and you coach them...

Feedback - How to Make it Effective

Whether you want to reinforce behaviour - Confirming feedback or change unacceptable behaviour - Productive feedback, there are certain steps you need to follow to make it work.

Motivating Teams

This section is an indispensable and practical guide to leading teams with expertise, covering subjects such as defining the skills required to complete a project, establishing trust between individuals within a team, and maximizing the performance of that team...

How to Align Your Team through Change

Learn about the Eight Principles for Purposeful Alignment – the key for getting your team fully behind a change initiative, and ways to create new ways of thinking and behaving to support the change.

Team Building Survey Reveals Clues, Not Answers

Your team building survey should serve as a catalyst for further research, not as the definitive answer. Part of the 'Ask the Team Doc' Q&A series.

Manage Expectations to Reduce Everyday Frustrations

Just today my partner Russ and I sat down to hash out a nagging frustration. It took a little bantering back and forth [not without some rise in emotional tension I’ll have you know] until we got at the heart of the issue. Unmet expectations!

Teaming - How to Build a Team

Team building takes work but the results are worth it. The essential ingredient is time and patience. If you really want to build as team that will acheive outstanding results for you as owner and the your employees read on.

Workplace Fitness: Tongue-In-Cheek

The tongue is the main vessel used to speak. It accomplishes this by spewing out sounds and words. Although a small part of the body, it controls and affects the direction of our lives. Most of the time it does a lot of good; but sometimes it gets us into huge trouble, and controlling it is a lifelong process. This article will give you 10 proven ways to prevent you from getting foot-in-mouth disease.

Leading the Witness: How Asking Questions as a Trainer Can Limit Learning and Reduce Trust

If you deliver training, odds are you reduce participants' learning and enthusiasm through manipulative questions - and that you're unaware that you're doing this. Matt helps you identify how, if at all, this is happening for you, and offers a way of using questions that avoids these negative consequences.

Make Way For A New Diversity Training Book

Tips on how to use this anthology, as an innovative diversity training tool.

Five Simple Strategies for Unifying Project Teams

Every experienced project manager has certainly experienced challenges in getting their teams to behave like…well, teams. But with organization and guidance you can help your project teams accomplish more and eliminate many of the setbacks and challenges that make teamwork so difficult. Get five strategies for unifying and organizing your teams...

Workplace Conflict - Facilitating a Peaceful Outcome

The workplace often requires us to adopt a ‘role-play’ approach which can lead to behaviours that conflict with adult best practice. When disagreements arise, the consequences can result in ongoing stress and low morale: the answer may lie in a facilitated discussion.