Sponsored by Visa Business: A high performance team is defined as one that operates with a common purpose, common goals, mutual respect, trust, and commitment. A high performance team goes beyond participation to collaboration where team members work together interactively to achieve common goals by capitalizing on each member’s unique skills, knowledge, and abilities to … [Read more...]
Sponsored Video: Creating Opportunities for Others in Your Small Business
Diverse teams are strong teams. When you build a small business team that includes people with different skills, different experiences, different educations, and different personalities, you’ll deliver better results. However, those results will only come if communication is open and team members are given the opportunity to excel. In other words, you need to invest time and … [Read more...]
How To Be A Better Business Leader – 5 Top Tips
Failure and financial disasters are operational hazards as far as company directors are concerned and it is only those of us who can overcome setbacks that really stand a chance of becoming truly excellent business leaders. With that in mind, here are some simple but hopefully helpful tips on how we all might improve our business leadership skills: 1. Be proactive as a … [Read more...]
Tips to be an Effective Team Leader: Lessons from West Point
In today’s work force, being an effective team leader is essential, but making certain that teams produce high quality results can be tricky. There is no one recipe for creating highly productive teams, but I have advice to offer based on what I have learned from my two sons who attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. At this institution, the corps of … [Read more...]
4 Critical Management Techniques for Difficult Employees
While most CEOs build their careers in an area of tactical expertise such as finance, engineering, development or sales/marketing, very few CEOs build their careers on human resource skills. Yet, with every promotion, they get deeper and deeper into management, and their management and leadership skills become critically important to their companies' ongoing success. It is a … [Read more...]
How to Build a Powerful Team for Maximum Small Business Success
Sponsored by VISA Business: Is your team achieving gold medal success? You can’t beat the competition if you don’t have a strong team working to achieve a common goal. And you can’t take first place in a competitive marketplace if you’re not effectively executing strategies and tactics on a daily basis that will make it feasible for your team and your company to reach the … [Read more...]
Integrating Team Building into Employee Training
There are a lot of different reasons why companies employ team-building activities. Teamwork leads to more productivity, creativity, and interaction, and it turns people into more successful individuals and workers. Training your event staff using team-building exercises can make for a more flexible, fluid, and efficient event experience. Why Do Companies Train Using Team … [Read more...]
Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business
Conflict can be good. That's according to an insightful email message that I received this week on behalf of Dr. Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development, founder of the Stop The Drama! Campaign, and author of the book Stop The Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. She explains that “productive conflict” allows female athletes to address disagreement and … [Read more...]
Appreciating the UConn Streak
Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women on Business writer As some of you may know, the University of Connecticut women's basketball team made history a couple of weeks ago by setting an NCAA record with their 89 game win streak. This topped the previous record, set between 1971 & '74, in which UCLA had 88 wins in a row. The UCLA team, however, was a men's … [Read more...]
Collaboration Key in the Workplace
Post by Jane K. Stimmler, contributing Women On Business writer The national political scene has sure gotten ugly lately. Though I have always maintained that politics – corporate politics specifically – doesn’t have to be negative, it’s a harder sell lately. When we hear every day about the dirty fighting, smear tactics and stealth moves to trump the “other side” which are … [Read more...]