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Leaders Know the Temperature of the Team
Leading is about driving results but it is also about taking the team’s temperature and understanding three things:
– Do they need the temperature turned up?
– Do they need the temperature turned down?
– Do they need to be on a glide-path for a while?
There is no science to the art of temperature taking, but we can draw on personal experiences to help reset the temperature. Thinking back over your professional life you may have experienced some of the same dynamics that teams exhibit. Let’s correlate personal experiences to team experiences…
Seven Steps to Collaboration in Disagreement
When all parties are agreeable, collaboration is easy. It is when the parties are not agreeable that a leader goes to work. Disagreements can come from many sources and for many reasons, but the key to connecting opposing positions starts with understanding all sides. How can a leader create a collaborative effort when disagreement is…
Read MoreFind the And in Conflict
Society seems to work hard to find the polarity between two sides. There doesn’t seem to be enough leaders with the courage to set their personal opinions, feelings, or beliefs aside to seek the middle ground. This polarization seeps into our workspace, and because of this seepage, unselfish leadership that focuses on serving the middle…
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