Team Alignment Posts

Lessons in Teamwork from “Geese”

In reading this past week Leaders Without Borders by Doug Dickerson, I was reminded of one of my favorite visualizations of teamwork.  It is the “V” formation used by flocks of geese in teaming up to fly.  My friends... Read More »

It’s About The Experience!

When you go to McDonalds, why do you go there?  Is it for the great hamburgers?  Maybe the great icy coke, thick shakes, sundae’s, or apple pies?  Or, maybe, it’s none of these and it’s really about the “experience”. ... Read More »

Your Team is “Dysfunctional”!

Yes, it takes a lot to admit it; however, it’s true.  Mom always told me if I couldn’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.  Well, I have since learned that words spoken with the intent of building... Read More »

How’s your “EGO”?

In their book, Lead Like Jesus, Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges provide “lessons for everyone from the greatest leadership role model of all time”.  One of these lessons centers around “EGO”. Yes, we all have one and we all... Read More »

What’s a Team Alignment?

We often get the question, “what’s a team alignment?”  Differentiating from to typical team building exercises, here are a few words to describe what an alignment “is” and “is not”. Is:                                                            Is Not: Data based                                           Generic Real issues/real-time     ... Read More »

What’s Your Pain?

What are your biggest challenges in 2011? What’s keeping you up an night? What’s that “elephant in the room” you’re avoiding? In speaking with a client this past week, we were discussing the challenges around sharing “pain” within businesses. ... Read More »

Characteristics of a High Performance Team

Are you looking to take your team’s performance to the next level? Our High Performance Team Alignment is a transformational process which accelerates breakthroughs for your businesses most difficult challenges, introduces a context for high-performance, and elevates teamwork and... Read More »

Feedback

How are you doing at asking for feedback? Are you truly getting authentic feedback? How do you know? Have you ever received feedback which surprises you? Is feedback the truth? What are you doing with the feedback? Feedback is... Read More »

The Cause

“The Cause”, “Our Mission”, “What Matters”, “Making a Difference” — Is it important that your organization have a “mission statement”? Some tend to dismiss the importance of “mission statements”; however, we have been reminded over the past month of... Read More »

What is it we do?

As we don’t sell a particular product or service, it’s often that people have difficulty understanding what we do. While we have a wide range of capabilities, our core business is in the following areas: Strategy Leadership Development High... Read More »