Trust is the foundation for any successful team or organization. I like the paragraph below and the other 9 tips by Charles Breeding. Take time to read it and think of how you can begin to build better trust in your team.
Tip# 1: Build a reputation for benevolence, or doing something kind, helpful or useful for someone else. Practice doing something for someone else everyday for no apparent (ulterior motive) reason, and watch your trust build – it could be as simple as a handwritten thank you note. Ever see the movie, “Pay It Forward?” If not, go rent it and watch it for a good example of this tip and principle.
For the entire article click:
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/10_Tips_for_Building_Trust.html
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Virtual Leadership
More and more I am faced with the challenge of clients who work in virtual environments and therefore struggle with effective collaboration, communication and team development. The notion of working in the 'virtual environment' is one that can be found in many places and is used to denote new organizational forms such as Virtual Teams, Teleworking and Communities of Practice that attempt to address the changed social, economic and technological environments in which such organizations now operate.
Virtual work environments have gone way beyond a trend as more than two-thirds of American workers surveyed have engaged in virtual work. Of those surveyed, 31 percent work in a virtual management structure, i.e., their immediate manager or staff members are not located in the same office. The vast majority of virtual employees(91%) agree that virtual work saves their companies time and money.
While a full 95 percent of workers who have participated on virtual teams found the experience productive and enjoyable, there are inherent challenges for leaders to address to maintain team collaboration, trust, motivation and productivity.
As our workplace evolves virtually, it seems the rules for managing employees have changed. Effectively leading employees who telecommute or work throughout various locations presents a different set of challenges for today’s managers.
In order to build a high performing virtual team, leaders must find new ways to close interpersonal and geographic distances to bring everyone together around common goals. Leaders need to focus on results and communicating with workers to maintain productivity.
The goal of a leader is to build a high performing virtual team which shares a clear and unified vision of the work to be done. It is also important that virtual teams value each others contribution and work together to build a future with the organization.
The greatest challenge for leading virtual teams is communication. Successful leadership can improve team communication by:
• Leading effective meetings
• Requiring Project Updates
• Holding Teleconferences – Video Conferences
• Effective Voice Mail
• Effective Email
• Setting up a Communications Plan with your team
• Building Your own Communication Skills
Despite new technologies, effective communication hinges on a few fundamentals. First, communication must be timely and clear. Second, all communication must have meaning and applicability. Systems for effective communication in a virtual world must be dependable and must be inclusive of everyone.
Successfully managing in a virtual environment rests on a foundation of trust. Unfortunately, isolation can often breed distrust. Therefore, giving and receiving solid, practical feedback takes on a new importance. As a virtual leader, you must check in regularly with employees to find out how things are going, proactively address emerging problems, and help your team work to their potential.
www.coreperformanceconsulting.com
Virtual work environments have gone way beyond a trend as more than two-thirds of American workers surveyed have engaged in virtual work. Of those surveyed, 31 percent work in a virtual management structure, i.e., their immediate manager or staff members are not located in the same office. The vast majority of virtual employees(91%) agree that virtual work saves their companies time and money.
While a full 95 percent of workers who have participated on virtual teams found the experience productive and enjoyable, there are inherent challenges for leaders to address to maintain team collaboration, trust, motivation and productivity.
As our workplace evolves virtually, it seems the rules for managing employees have changed. Effectively leading employees who telecommute or work throughout various locations presents a different set of challenges for today’s managers.
In order to build a high performing virtual team, leaders must find new ways to close interpersonal and geographic distances to bring everyone together around common goals. Leaders need to focus on results and communicating with workers to maintain productivity.
The goal of a leader is to build a high performing virtual team which shares a clear and unified vision of the work to be done. It is also important that virtual teams value each others contribution and work together to build a future with the organization.
The greatest challenge for leading virtual teams is communication. Successful leadership can improve team communication by:
• Leading effective meetings
• Requiring Project Updates
• Holding Teleconferences – Video Conferences
• Effective Voice Mail
• Effective Email
• Setting up a Communications Plan with your team
• Building Your own Communication Skills
Despite new technologies, effective communication hinges on a few fundamentals. First, communication must be timely and clear. Second, all communication must have meaning and applicability. Systems for effective communication in a virtual world must be dependable and must be inclusive of everyone.
Successfully managing in a virtual environment rests on a foundation of trust. Unfortunately, isolation can often breed distrust. Therefore, giving and receiving solid, practical feedback takes on a new importance.
www.coreperformanceconsulting.com
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Uprooting Anger
Anger has a poisonous effect on all our lives. On a personal level—in our families, work, communities, nation and world—anger permeates each of us. Anger creates distance away from people and generates a line of movement toward isolation and illness. It fractures leadership, feeds inefficiency, creates unhealthy alliances, and makes us sick.
Our world is shadowed by images of anger and examples of how one person’s anger can have a ripple effect across the globe. With the efficiency of a Swiss watch, technology can inundate us with a flood of cheap, easy-to-access hatred, judgment, violence and indifference. Anger may even kill us one way or another, because it’s like a poison that we can either sip, gulp or (hopefully) choose to reject.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
Attack When the Time is Right
There are moments in our personal and professional lives when we must attack without hesitation in order achieve success or overcome adversity. Hesitation can frequently delay decision making and being too quick on the trigger may look impulsive. But, when the time is right, a properly timed attack can break the back of competition and place victory in your hand. Watch how Lance Armstrong's attack does just this.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Postive Change
Like all things in life, there is change. I am happy to present the latest change in my life that is breathing new energy in to my work and my blog. I am proud to announce my new consulting company Core Performance Consulting which marks the end of a relationship and a return to my roots. Relationships are key components to both personal and business success, but sometimes relationships can become unhealthy and must be shed in order to move to another level of performance. While I have recently shed myself of an unhealthy relationship, the decision has opened the door to an abundance of strategic alliances that are bolstering my mission, expanding my knowledge base and ultimately benefiting all those I work and come in contact with. I look forward to bringing all this to a forum of human performance strategies that I hope will serve as a guide and resource for all of you.
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