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It’s Time to Start Teaching Your Teams to Succeed

If you’ve ever been part of a truly effective team…a high performance team, you know the experience is memorable. For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace.

By Art Petty|2017-11-25T12:26:42-06:00May 18th, 2011|Leadership, Project Management|5 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: 6 Ideas to Improve Team Performance Today

If your organization is like most, you’re leaving money on the table in terms of team productivity and performance. Social and interpersonal factors, motivation issues, lack of group cohesion and the general up-front churn that teams display as they form, are just a few of the areas where you can pick up immediate productivity improvements with a little bit of smart leadership.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:50-05:00July 19th, 2010|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|2 Comments

Want a Dream Team? Give a Visionary a Voice

Who’s the Visionary on your team? Hint: chances are it’s not the leader. Contrary to popular myth, “being a visionary” is neither a prerequisite for leading, nor is it bestowed upon the chosen few as they ascend to their lofty perches above us. Many Visionaries labor in relative obscurity, often ignored or worse yet, mocked, because of their unique way of looking at the world and the issues in front of them.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:58-05:00December 4th, 2009|Leadership, Leading Change|5 Comments

Detoxing Your Team

Most of us can recall working with someone that had such a strong, negative impact on the work environment that you could literally feel the emotional mood swing when this person walked into a meeting. For some unknown reason, perhaps a karmic-imbalance in the universe, these toxic characters have the unnerving and disconcerting tendency to be great survivors. While it is easy to intuit that toxic employees are value destroyers, we’ve been short on hard data about the true impact that these individuals have on the work environment. Until now.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:11-05:00April 7th, 2009|Decision-Making, Leadership|10 Comments

Leader, are you the problem with your team’s performance?

As a leader looking for ways to improve the performance of your team, it is important to spend some time examining the impact that you have on the working environment and productivity of your associates. Effective self-examination might just help identify some opportunities for your own development that will spur the performance of those around you.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:33-05:00December 12th, 2007|Leadership|0 Comments

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