Holding Team Retreats That Matter
Every employee has received the calendar invite for “Mandatory Team Retreat” and shuddered. They have visions of being forced to participate in icebreakers and goofy team building games while dozens of emails go unanswered and ...
Technical Skills Get You Promoted, But People Skills Determine Whether You Succeed
Communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making skills used to be nice-to-haves, the soft skills you could develop over time. Now they're the difference between teams that perform and teams that fall apart.
Stop Having Meetings About Meetings: How Facilitation Actually Gets Things Done
The strategic planning session was three hours in. We'd covered so many different topics, revisited the same argument four times, and somehow ended up debating the wording on a flyer when we were supposed to ...
The First 90 Days – What No One Tells You About Becoming a Leader
The transition from doing work to leading people is one of the hardest professional challenges you'll face. The first 90 days can be crucial to your success or failure as a new leader.