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Teamwork: Problem Solving with Your Team
One of the joys of really great teamwork is the enormous scope for creative thinking and innovative problem solving. Team problem solving is great!
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Supporting Your Team through Conflict: 3+1 Roles to Play
Teams don’t always run smoothly. You can get conflict within your team and conflict between your team and other teams or outsiders. As team leader, it can fall to you to support your team through this conflict. And there are three (plus...
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How to Support Your Team for Learning: 7 Things
A big part of how I see my responsibilities as a team leader is in developing the skills, talents, and knowledge of the people under my care. I need to support them for learning.
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Tips for Cross-Cultural Working: 10 + 1 Bonus
In readying yourself to lead cross-cultural teams, here are ten of my best practical tips... with a bonus on the end!
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Creating Trust in Remote Teams
Humans have evolved to work together in small, close-knit groups, often based around family relationships. These allow for slow and deep relationships to form, that are the basis of common understanding and mutual trust. Remote teams...
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Helping Build Understanding in Your Remote Team
A vital part of your role in leading a virtual, or remote team is helping everyone to understand one another’s cultures, expectations, and norms of behavior.
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Creating Connection and Building Culture in Your Remote Team
Building connection and creating a distinctive culture will be far harder with a remote team. You must take the lead in making efforts to communicate well.
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Fostering Responsibility within Your Remote Team
This challenge is about how to create accountability, responsibility, and an appropriate balance of managerial control and team-member autonomy. It is especially hard in remote teams.
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Getting Sufficient Challenge in Your Remote Team
One challenge in managing virtual teams is… Challenge. That is, that we fail to adequately challenge one-another’s thinking, because the distance and cultural differences in a remote team make it even more uncomfortable or difficult than...
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Developing People in Your Remote Team
As a team leader, you have a responsibility to help your team members develop their skills and build their careers - even in a remote team, when you cannot be with them.
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Taking Care of the Wellbeing of People in Your Remote Team
Of course, the final challenge of managing a remote team is to take care of the welfare and wellbeing of people who can be a very long way from you. The usual quiet chat in an informal arrangement is off the table. And so too is your...
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What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model?
The Tuckman Model of Group Formation and Team Development is one of the most important, useful, and successful management models. Simply put... Every manager needs to know it!
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Teamwork: Elements of Effective Team Meetings
Team meetings can be an awesome way to get your team coordinated. Or they can be a huge drain on your team’s time and morale. What are the essential elements of an effective team meeting, if you want to foster great team working?
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Teamwork: Your Team Working Problems Solved
Teamwork is not easy. So, it is likely that, from time-to-time, you will run into team working problems. In this video, we’ll look at four of the most common.
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Team Leadership: Handling Team Problems
Team working is not always smooth and easy. So, an essential part of team leadership is handling team problems. Here we look at the basics of how to handle 8 common team problems.
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Katzenbach and Smith: The Wisdom of Teams
The Wisdom of Teams by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith is a true classic among Twentieth Century business books. It uncovers the wisdom of what teams can achieve, and how they can perform at their best.
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Meredith Belbin: The Belbin Team Roles Profile
Meredith Belbin set out to understand why management teams succeed or fail. And the tools he created to help them succeed is the set of nine Belbin Team Roles and the Team Role Profile.
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ABC Lingokids Camp (Friendship Chant)
This chant teaches kids how to follow directions and act as a team at camp.
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What is teamwork and how can it help perform better?
This video is about the importance of teamwork in achieving common goals and the five stages of teamwork, as identified by educational psychologist Bruce Tuckman. It highlights the challenges students face in group projects and the...
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Tech's Way Forward
2018 has been a year of reckoning in tech, with platforms under siege and questions looming about privacy, data and the power of tech giants. Where does the industry go next? Steve Ballmer sits down with WSJ's Joanna Stern.
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Overcoming Negative Thoughts and Working Together as a Team
In this video, a leader addresses their team about transitioning to a new system. They encourage team members to express their negative thoughts by writing them on slips of paper and depositing them in a box. The leader acknowledges the...
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Preparing for Emergencies
In this video, a group of coworkers discuss and prepare for emergency situations in their office. However, their teacher, Marcus, takes his preparations to the extreme, causing chaos and accidents during their emergency drill. The...
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Global Grover: Clubhouse
Do children all over the world make club houses like they do here? They sure do! This documentary-style film shows how a group of children from Israel make a club house. What a wonderful way to show little ones that kids all over the...