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Facilitated Debriefs: Creating Continual Improvement in Teams

August 16, 2017 by Lacey Schmidt Leave a Comment

  The dust is settling. Your team finished the project, at least for now. You gather in your conference room for a debriefing of what went wrong… After all, that is the best way to improve performance next time… Or is it? Enter the Facilitated Debrief. Team Leadership and Debriefing Failures If you only focus […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Leadership, Team Development, Teams Tagged With: debrief, facilitated debrief, leadership, project, strong leadership, teamwork

Are Ropes Courses Effective Teamwork Training?

July 24, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

    As an executive coach, I often get asked if ropes courses are an effective teamwork training option. After all,  ropes course providers sell them that way. Come conquer the mighty ROPES COURSE and your team will start to operate like Mission Control during Apollo 13. In this post I review some of the […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Team Development, Teams Tagged With: are ropes courses effective, ropes course, Team cohesion, Team Development, Team performance

Lead with Compassion Lesson #1: Don’t Leave People in Positions They Can’t Do

May 8, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

Lead With Compassion We often talk about the importance of effectively leading a team to better perform, surpass their own expectations, and achieve greater success than any had hoped for.  But what if the position doesn’t fit the talent or skill of a teammember?  What happens when no training or professional development will get someone […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Career Development, Goal Setting, Leadership, Personal Development Tagged With: compassionate leadership, effective leader, effective leadership, handling work conflict, leader, leadership, leading with compassion

Great Teams? Their Success Doesn’t Rely Solely on Skill

April 24, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

Last year, at the start of 2016, Google suggested that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team!  How did they come to the conclusion? By analyzing interviews and data from more than 100 great teams, they successfully isolated two main drivers of effective team performance. Their research suggests a team’s level of emotional […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Personality, Team Development, Teams Tagged With: Personality matters, Team cohesion, Team cohesion and collective personality, Team performance, Team personality, Team personality impacts performance

A Crash Course Review of Conflict Management

April 17, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

We may not like to engage in conflict but we know from team research that conflict is a necessary part of effective team development. Efficient management resolution is a key teamwork skill. And, ineffective conflict can actually be detrimental to the team and its performance if not managed well. Effective conflict management creates a process for conflict […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Personal Development, Team Development, Teams Tagged With: conflict in teams, conflict management, conflict resolution, effective conflict in teams, effective team conflict management, how to handle team conflict

Give Yourself the Luxury of Transformative Experiences

April 8, 2017 by Lacey Schmidt Leave a Comment

Transformative experiences ignite our passions and ensure our work-life satisfaction. Here are some practical coaching tips (gleaned from psychological research) on how you can find and create more transformative experiences for yourself, without changing your career and giving away all of your worldly possessions to sail around the world. Add New Dimensions to Your Current Position Think […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Career Development, Personal Development, Uncategorized Tagged With: career aspirations, employee development, executive coaching, life coaching, positive psychology

Your Unconscious Bias: It’s Impact and How you can Address It

April 3, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

Our brains are exquisitely skilled in observing co-variation in the world. When we see time and time again that the presence of dark clouds precedes the fall of rain, we learn to associate clouds and rain.  The repeated exposure to this covariation means that over time, an implicit cognitive association is formed between these two concepts…such […]

Filed Under: Blogs, Career Development, Personal Development, Personal Reflection, Personality Tagged With: assessing cognitive bias, bias, career development, cognitive bias, personal development, personal reflection, personality, unconscious bias

The Power Pose: Instrumental to Your Career Success

March 20, 2017 by Kathryn Keeton Leave a Comment

Think there is no power in your pose?  Think again. Researcher Amy Cuddy highlights fascinating social psychology research that suggests anyone can change how they feel and others’ perceptions about themselves by simply spending two minutes in a power pose. The Power Pose What’s power posing you say? It’s standing with arms or elbows out, chin […]

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