Team Coaching in Pairs
My colleague and I were working with a senior management team from a well-known technology company. We were in the afternoon of day one of a two-day session. The team was engaged in important conversation about low team scores for Trust and Accountability — except for two team members who were clearly not taking this […]
Breaking the Code on High Performing Teams
Most people in organizations, if they’ve been around long enough, have been on a great team or maybe two, a number of so-so teams, and a few disappointing teams. It’s easy to conclude that the difference between them is simply the membership. That’s often how team leaders approach poorly performing teams: replace the weak or […]
Correlation Between Positivity & Business Performance
Interesting and fundamental research on the correlation between positivity and business performance was conducted by Marcial Losada and Emily Heaphy in 2004, when they studied The Role of Positivity and Connectivity in the Performance of Business Teams.* In their study, the interactions of 60 business teams were observed during meetings and thousands of behaviors and […]