10 Tips to Help You Stop Artificial Harmony from Causing Havoc on Your Team
ARE YOU A VICTIM OF ARTIFICIAL HARMONY?
It is the silent killer of effective team work in families and work. It robs us of time, energy and real connection with other human beings.
Artificial harmony is described as “making nice”. That is when we act like we are getting along yet there are resentments, frustration, and grudges being held against teammates and family members.
8 Tips for Handling Healthy Conflict
Conflict: A big word with big connotations. Studies show managers waste 6 to 8 weeks per year dealing with conflict. Many people hear the word conflict and picture a battle of some sort. I have learned through living that you can be soft and still be heard, you can be kind to get your point across and you do not have to be a bully to resolve a problem to your liking.
Five Ideas To Build Transparency and Trust
Most people love surprises – except when it is in a workplace that involves unknowns, instability and lack of communication. Transparency that fosters trust is the foundation of positive personal relationships. So how do we improve trust and transparency? I have collected a few of my favorite recent blog posts that highlight the benefits of trust and transparency in the workplace.
In Life and In Baseball: Embrace the Triangle
Look around you. Triangles are everywhere. You will find them in bridges, buildings, in the frame of a bicycle and on the playground. Triangles bring strength to structures. Why? Triangles form incredibly strong structures because all three sides bear the load. It is the teamwork that makes them strong.
The Blame Game: 10 Questions for Positive Action
Blame erodes trust. It can happen in a moment or slowly over time. When we fail to own our part of the problem, project, and point fingers at others, very few people feel safe. Blame can happen on a personal level, within the leadership team or throughout the entire organization. Our ego can keep us from seeing the truth because there is so much justification that happens within our own belief system. That’s part of human condition.
Key to a Great Workplace: Take a Leap of Trust
Q: You have me but cannot hold me; gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great, and if betrayed I will break.
So what am I?
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4 Steps to Create Better Work-Life Balance
Clarity Is King. 6 Ways to Create Clarity in Your Organization.
Great Leaders Walk the Talk
The first and perhaps most important “To-Do” on the list: make sure the leaders of influence in the organization are behind it at the start. Having a leader or group of leaders working together to identify, model and encourage the desired values of the organization are necessary components for a thriving culture. Additionally, once those values within the culture are identified, it is critical that future hires fit into the vision of the culture. The key to high performing culture is to integrate the values and behaviors into every fiber of the organization. The values are your guiding post for hiring, performance management, coaching, customer experience and branding. Who you are on the inside of your organization has to be consistent with who you are to your customers. Read more
Top 9 To-Do’s For Successful Culture Change
We have briefly outlined some of the most important ways to avoid being among the ranks of those organizations whose culture initiatives fail. Read more
