Professionally, you may have had to deal with a lot of changes and challenges at work. Personally, you now may have aging parents and friends with serious health concerns. You sometimes may just want to throw in the towel and give up. You may need a dose of resilience.
If you look up the word resilience in the dictionary it […]
It is important to get team members to talk. What limits interaction is when we remind people that we don’t have money in the budget or that we tried that once and it didn’t work.
Good meeting participants know how to get participation. They say the right things in the right ways to invite input and keep it coming. It […]
There are formal and informal methods for facilitating and participating in meetings.
Parliamentary procedures are still used at annual meetings and board meetings.
Today we are talking about norming. Norms are basically informal rules of conduct. Norms are shared values, beliefs, behaviors, and procedures.
After a period of conflict, one idea might emerge as the best one, or the team might combine […]
Change is hard pretty much for everybody. Some people are merely suffering through it. Some people are skipping down the hallway, high fiving and back slapping, acting as if there is nothing to worry about. Is it possible to thrive rather than just survive change? In a great book entitled, “Strategies for Fast-Changing Times” written by Nate Booth provides […]
Change has been the norm for years. Some people are still struggling with accepting all of the changes in their personal and professional lives. At work they feel like victims of change. It might be more productive being the person that leads the change. In order to lead change effectively, a flexible, yet systematic approach is necessary. A book […]