To Bring Out The Best In Millennials, Put On Your Coaching Hat
Do you lead a team composed fully or partially with Millennials? If you’re like many of the Gen-X or Gen-Y or Baby Boomers you’re likely having a difficult time leading them. From Fast Company Magazine: In the last five years, a growing number of studies and surveys have highlighted the importance of innovation for the […]
Crazy Busy, Leadership, and Teamwork
One of the challenges of being a team leader is becoming too busy (“crazy busy”). Being crazy busy is actually at epidemic proportions among team leaders. Patrick Lencioni suggests being crazy busy is a sign of “adrenaline addiction“. Here’s a great article from Tim Krieder at the New York Times entitled “The Busy Trap” If […]
Tribal Leadership — TED talk by David Logan
At TEDxUSC, business professor David Logan talks about the five kinds of tribes that humans naturally form — in schools, workplaces, even the driver’s license bureau. By understanding our shared tribal tendencies, we can help lead each other to become better individuals.
6 Ways to Ruin a Company Offsite Meeting
Can leading team building exercises (games) ruin your company offsite? This article from Inc Magazine says yes. From the article: Method # 6 for ruining your company offsite: Include teambuilding exercises when teambuilding isn’t the point. Teambuilding exercises, like ropes courses, puzzles, treasure hunts, etc., were incredibly popular in 90s corporate America. They’re still fairly […]
Sit down lectures – – Is there a better way to learn teamwork?
Photo from Andrew Scott on Flickr Remember college classes? Sitting in a lectures taking notes? Remember how engaging these lectures were? “Sage on the stage” is how this method of instruction is known. If you’re like most people, a good portion of college lectures were terribly boring and did not fully engage you. Fast forward […]
Systemic Shame — What does Penn State have to teach us about organizatonal culture?
Brene Brown, Ph.D. has a great post on her blog about what the recent events at Penn State have to teach us about shame and organizational culture. When the culture of an organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human […]