It’s that time of the year again. No Mo May is over and the grass can be cut. The bees are flourishing. And the year is almost halfway over! Man alive, where is the time going? Indeed, where is the year going? June is the perfect time to step back as a team and share...
How do you distinguish between a team and group? And is that distinction even meaningful? Yes, and it matters, because “team based working” is so prevalent AND not every group labelled a team is actually a team. According to Katzenbach and Smith, a team is a...
This week is different. The focus is turning from self to other, from home office to team. Our aim was to explore how to hold remote working, virtual meetings, and the anxiety generated by COVID-19 and still connect and function as a team to deliver results to customers. Rather than replicate offline meetings online (that would be a cruel blow indeed), this new, virtual paradigm is the opportunity to create better results from fewer, shorter, more intentional meetings.
Organisations use a plethora of team performance tools, all of which promise to help them crack the code of building the perfect team. The tools usually focus on skills and abilities on the one hand, and personality types and preferences on the other.
In my Design Thinking journey, I’ve been trained in how to put together promising innovation teams. Diversity enables a team to explode with creativity and shape breakthrough products and services in a short time: mix …