Harvard Business

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s no surprise that trust is at the core of high-performing teams. To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S. To understand how the best teams build trust among themselves, researchers interviewed 1,000 U.S.-based

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Harvard Business

APRIL 8, 2024

But it’s much harder to recognize when well-intentioned leaders are actually hurting their teams because they aren’t aware of their negative impact, and team members aren’t always comfortable pushing back.

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Consulting Success

MARCH 8, 2021

Do you want to know how to build effective teams and benefit from conflict? She joins Michael Zipursky to share how you can be a valuable asset to your team. Benefit From Conflict And Build Effective Teams With Liane Davey: Podcast #177 is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2024

When you’re a manager, at some point, regardless of how the circumstances arise, your team will blame you for something that’s making them unhappy, whether you have control over it or not.

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Consulting Success

MAY 5, 2023

Scaling From Solo Consultant To A Team By Creating A Total Rewards Program is a post from: Consulting Success Do you grow to a certain size first and then develop systems and processes — or is it the reverse? The answer lies somewhere in between. In this article, I’ll share how you can do both by creating.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 2, 2022

Continuing the series on dependencies… Maybe you don't have the problem where the team creates internal dependencies with their process. And you don't have to wait for someone outside the team to approve your work—an organizational process. But you do have a combination of platform/component teams and feature teams.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2024

To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. Next, they should assess their current performance, evaluate their teams, and finally, create a new plan that more closely resembles their compensation goals. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2024

The process usually starts when teams are pitching leadership on wildly optimistic and conflicting use cases, and the board, excited but unsure how to proceed, puts some poor, unsuspecting soul in charge of the whole thing. It very rarely works out.

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Consulting Success

JUNE 6, 2022

Are you a solo entrepreneur who wishes to build your own team? From Solo Consultant To Building A Team (Boutique Firm) With Kay Formanek: Podcast #241 is a post from: Consulting Success. Kay Formanek’s perspective on spending your time fruitfully, especially when it comes to your work, is exceptional.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 1, 2024

AI-powered feedback is popping up in Zoom, Teams, and other common tools. Relying on it can be convenient — but there are some serious drawbacks.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Consulting Success

MAY 22, 2023

In this episode, Devon O’Rourke, the Founder and Managing Partner at Fluvio, provides some tips to build your consulting team by shifting from a solo to a firm model. How To Build Your Consulting Team – From Solo To Firm Model with Devon O’Rourke: Podcast #291 is a post from: Consulting Success

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2024

Despite its critical importance, most executive teams are not in agreement around the foundational question: What does success look like in X years? The challenge lies in developing a clear collective understanding of what winning as a team looks like and then aligning efforts, resources, and strategies toward these common goals.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 20, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

The number of companies adopting and managers leading remote work teams has increased significantly. Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. This process demoralized the team and drove productivity down.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you find meetings with your team disintegrate into dysfunction and chaos, resulting in ineffective decision-making, inadequate solutions, and team members — including yourself — with deflated morale? Team” is a misnomer for these bodies; “group” is more accurate. To turn your group into a team, you need curiosity.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Hollywood films have long been made by teams of independent contractors and employees of different production companies brought together for short-term projects. Managing a disparate group like this can be a challenge, but team leaders can overcome that by working to create one culture, making work personal, and empowering the team leader.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

The larger your product, the more likely you have components teams. I often see component teams because of the architecture of the product. Also, the teams find it tempting to think of the common GUI and API as components. The teams might not use the GUI and API as components. I'm sure the teams need that image.

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Rick Conlow

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

An effective team does not come easy. One way to determine how a team is doing involves listening to their comments to one another or others. However, these comments are also a wakeup call for a manager to improve his or her team leadership skills. Process involves how well people work together on that team.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Similar roles are […] The post Learning to Lead: Communicating with Clients and Teams first appeared on Tom Spencer. They often have significant influence on the success of a consulting engagement, as they often interact directly with clients and oversee engagements end-to-end.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2024

Red teaming, a structured testing effort to find flaws and vulnerabilities in an AI system, is an important means of discovering and managing the risks posed by generative AI. Defense Department tasked “red teams” with acting as the Soviet adversary, while blue teams were tasked with acting as the United States or its allies.

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Harmonious Workplaces

APRIL 26, 2024

This theory which began in the 1970s, states that work groups as […] The post Can diversity positively influence team and work group dynamics? For a while, I thought, “Hey, this makes sense!” appeared first on Harmonious Workplaces.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Navigating through uncertainty and making strategic decisions requires a […] The post Enterprise Strategy Teams: Charting a Path to Success first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Epicflow

MARCH 19, 2024

The Epicflow team continues implementing the most powerful functionality to provide our clients with a variety of tools to juggle projects and resources most efficiently. In software development projects or any Agile environment, it’s typical to work with cross-functional teams consisting of employees with different roles (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Project success ultimately depends on maintaining project team alignment from inception to completion. That can only happen when a project manager consistently realigns the team throughout the project. The author presents five questions every project manager should periodically ask their teams to create and maintain alignment.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2024

This article discusses how one team experimented with used AI to complement their creative marketers on various tasks, and how it resulted in their most impactful campaign to date. But AI alone won’t yield meaningful campaigns.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the face of escalating complexities, organizations are increasingly relying on teams to tackle these intricate issues and drive pivotal organizational decisions. To extract maximum value from team dynamics, leaders must remain mindful of potential biases that may impact team dynamics and to actively steer and fine-tune team processes.

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Makarios Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In our last blog , we discussed how leaders can wreck trust on their teams. If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having been responsible for dismantling team trust, you have an important job ahead of you: rebuilding trust on your team. Be honest and candid with your team members. Now, it is time to listen.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Maybe you're skeptical of whether it is possible to develop a creative and innovative team and believe you should just hire for it. A common argument presented in support of team development is that if people were born with creativity, we would observe more consistency in creativity among team members.

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