by Amanda Baines | Dec 2, 2015 | Team Development
…(and sorry, neither will paint-balling, a Superhero Evening or drumming). Are you exasperated that your team doesn’t behave like a team? If you’re honest with yourself, do you see petty office politics, people who don’t communicate well, don’t really support...
by Kate Mercer | Nov 6, 2015 | Team Development
Thanks to Jackie Fitzgerald of Alchemy Business Coaching for today’s post: Many years ago I shared an assistant with three of the other managers in the department. Sally was enthusiastic and very pleasant but she made a lot of mistakes (and I mean a lot)....
by Amanda Baines | Nov 4, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
High performing teams did not start out that way. A team in its infancy is little more than a group of people working alongside each other, with a vaguely common purpose. The stages in the cycle of team development are often referred to as forming, storming, norming...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 6, 2015 | Team Development
Our perennial favourite blogger, Neil Crofts, has come up trumps again with this very insightful guest post on what a team really is: There is a lot of talk of team work and team building in businesses, but the reality of teams and teamwork existing in business is...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 18, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development
Who is ‘they’ in your organisation? ‘Sales’? ‘Marketing’? ‘the staff’?, ‘customers’? Do ‘they’ seem to be making your job harder to do? Do you hear stuff like (or catch yourself saying): “this job would be fine if it wasn’t for ‘them’!”, “nobody tells me anything”,...
