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Mistakes to Avoid when Leading a Critical Meeting
Mistakes to Avoid when Leading a Critical Meeting 12/16 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio
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If You Don’t Manage Your Culture, It Will Manage You
Most leaders are aware of the importance of culture to their organizations, but very few spend much, if any, of their time thinking about the subject. We see companies that start with positive cultures run surprisingly quickly into issues. Start-ups are often in that situation and provide an invaluable lesson on how your organization’s culture can become out of sync with its own success. Continue reading
Collegiality and Accountability in the Workplace — conflicting priorities?
A major challenge to leaders is how to foster both high collegiality and a high level of accountability in their organizations. Leaders often experience the challenge as the difference between being a nice boss and a hard-driving one. On the receiving end of the equation, i.e., from the staff point of view, collegiality and accountability are also experienced as opposite extremes, the trade-off between a friendly supportive culture and a hard-nosed, results-oriented culture. Continue reading
Handling Emotional Conversations Productively 11/29 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio
Handling Emotional Conversations Productively 11/29 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio.
Are you avoiding the conversations that are potentially emotional? Or are you repeating the same angry unproductive exchanges? What is it costing you personally and your organization? Is there a path other than fight or flight?
Is a fun culture key to a company’s success? 11/09 at 1pm EST | Blog Talk Radio
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Is a fun culture key to a company’s success 11/09 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio.
Technology start-ups pride themselves in having the type of fun culture that attracts young talent. As the companies grow, they experience that newcomers don’t necessarily have the same view of what fun is, and that, as new concerns emerge, new skills and new practices are required. We explore what people value in a workplace, and what are the elements of a “fun” culture that are worth keeping.
Improving Team Coordination and Follow-through | Part 2 10/27 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio
Improving Team Coordination and Follow-through Part 2 10/27 by Business Advisors | Blog Talk Radio.
Team meetings usually focus on what each participant has done since the previous meeting. A lot of minute details are brought forward that are mostly not relevant to others. As individuals perceive that the meeting is not directly relevant, their interest and attention diminish. How can a leader bring focus to such meetings, keep them short and at maximum relevance for all to ensure that all team members are fully engaged?
What Blind Spots Can Do to Good Judgment
The story of Dan Shechtman illustrates how blind spots can distort good judgment. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, after decades of being ostracized by the scientific community for his discovery of “quasi-crystals” and vilified as a poor scientist by twice Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling.
Improving Team Coordination and Follow-through Part 1 on 10/13 on Strategies for Change
Join us on our radio program, Strategies for Change, on Thursday at noon EDT for the first part of this 2-episode series where we discuss how leaders and teams can improve coordination and follow-though and generate better performance.
Leadership and Self-Deception
If Leadership is a topic of interest for you, here is a great book that echoes some of our core tenets. Leadership and Self-Deception published by the Arbinger Institute is a parabola that describes the journey of a young senior manager through 2 days of intense reflection with the top leaders of the enlightened firm he joined just a month prior. Continue reading
Business Advisors Network Newsletter 2011 no.3
The new issue of our newsletter came out today. You can follow the link below to read it.