Debunking Team-Building Myths I challenged three team building myths in two past blog posts: Myth #1: You must hire a consultant. I disagree. All professionals should be able to build a team. Myth #2: The first agenda in team building is to get people to like each other. No, the first agenda is agreeing what the team is going to...

In my last post, I challenged two common team building myths: Myth #1: You must hire a consultant. Not true. Any professional can learn and apply basic The Leadership Gift™ skills to boost a group's performance by 50 to 100 percent or more, sometimes much more.) Myth #2: The first agenda in team building is to get people to like each other....

Rather than "do" the team-building for them, I prefer for individuals and groups to intentionally build themselves into teams using simple, easily learned, and reliable strategies when I teach the The Leadership Gift™. (more…)

Can you believe it -- the holidays are here, again. The change of a calendar year can be a wonderful time to acknowledge the investment required to maintain growth and development, including the quality of your relationships at work. One of my favorite tools for team maintenance is the Reorientation Process. Assembling all the players for reorientation is a powerful...

Do you want to learn the four most important principles of team building and how you can put them into action immediately in your team, for results you can count on every time? It's the most straight-forward approach to building any team any time. I promise. (If you find a better approach, please let me know.) I've written plenty about these...

New businesses should started with a business plan -- the same goes for teamwork: articulating the common outcome so every team member is working toward the same goal is crucial before the work starts. To move forward together, you need to establish shared clarity. Lack of shared clarity about direction is often the cause of the team getting stuck. When...

I just heard that reservations for my after-dinner talk at Alamo PMI in San Antonio Wednesday, January 28 are going fast--"filled up faster than we've seen in a long time" according to my host. That's encouraging news for Alamo PMI, for me (I hate it when people don't show up), and for the economy. I'll be talking about How to...

Team Building Shmeme-building... The good folks at Agile University yesterday published my team building commentary titled: How to Frustrate, Thwart, and Ultimately Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying.  How to Frustrate, Thwart, and Ultimately Bring Down Any Team in 4 Easy Steps Without Even Trying By Christopher Avery Everyone says they want to be on...

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I just finished my Blog Talk Radio show Lead Team Succeed. Today’s segment was Team Leadership Communications Skills for Team Building. You are probably listening to it now if you have your sound on. In this hour-long show I shared some of the most important truths I’ve learned in 17 years of studying and teaching team leadership communication skills for...