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9 Ideas to Reduce Cliques at Work
My thesis is that cliques at work have some helpful components, but they often do more harm than good by being exclusive elements in the culture. Top performance in any organization requires the best effort of the entire team, and when parts of the group are fragmented into insular cells, all kinds or gremlins creep into the structure. In the extreme, cliques can be hurtful to the mission of an orgnaization. But cliques are as natural as pancakes for breakfast. They form spontaneously and have their own unwritten bylaws that serve the members very well. How can leaders reduce the negative impact of cliques? Here are 9 ideas that can help reduce the problem.
Leadership Assessment #17 – Optimize Communication
There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is the ability to communicate well.

E-Mail Tip #11 - Create a Set of Rules for Your Organization
It is amazing how some organizations live in a perpetual state of e-mail overload when there is a very simple way out? This article suggests each group create a set of rules to use. My experience is that doing this can cut the volume of notes from 30% to 50% very quickly. Wouldn't your group benefit from all that extra time?
Communicating with Large Groups of Employees
Some leaders have a knack for communicting with large groups of employees well and others stink at it. In this paper I outline some of the variables in this equation and offer many tips for improving your skills in this area.

The Importance of Small Breakout Groups to Find Solutions and Create New Products and Services.
The benefits and use of breakout groups to brainstorm ideas and find solutions.
Profile: HALCHA Youth & Community Development organization
HALCHA Youth and Community Development organization is based in Garbatulla, a small town in northern Kenya where the populace are faced with poor living standards, low literacy levels, unemployment, unpredictable weather patterns that adversely impact on food security.
Envisioning the future of Facebook Groups.
In my opinion, Zuckerberg, Cox and others on Facebook's Product team should be given the inaugural Henry Ford award. Facebook delivers what it's customers actually want, despite their lack of knowledge that they want it. This is daily occurrence for fb: Closed Networks, NewsFeed, Profile Redesign, Open Graph, Platform, Pages, Internationalization, Chat, Privacy, Groups - and the list goes on.
The power of a group
January 18th would have been Benjamin Franklin’s birthday. Now there’s a guy who saw opportunities that others did not. Ben invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, the odometer, and the glass armonica. He formed both the first public library and the first fire department in Pennsylvania.
Make your mastermind rock
In a recent blog – The Power of a Group – I talked about the questions Ben Franklin created for guiding the discussions in his Junto group. Many of you asked to see those, so here they are. See what you think – can you get a sense of why the Junto accomplished so much in Philadelphia with ripple effects for the entire country? How would you like to be a part of a group like that?

Six Conversations for Team Success - How Most Team Development Meetings Get It Wrong
Becoming and remaining a high performance team is not just about how team members work with each other. The sustained success of a team is not determined by the way they work but by whether or not customers, sponsors and stakeholders continue to see them as an attractive investment of money, time and effort. The intelligent conversations for teams to engage in are about six areas of focus.
Six Conversations for Team Success - Making Team Away Days More Valuable
Intelligent conversations create meaning and understanding for the people that take part. Conversations are an essential aspect of learning - with thoughts and ideas challenged, opinions exchanged and wisdom created. The most useful intelligent conversations for teams have two broad dimensions. The outside and inside worlds. The outside world is where stakeholders' expectations, opinions and decisions determine whether or not the team and its products and services are valued. The inside world is, in reality, of secondary importance. How the team works together is only relevant to delivering the business strategy.

Six Conversations for Team Success - Look Outside First
Just about every commercial team has experienced some kind of team building event or away day - unfortunately they often become just another project or progress review; what the team has been doing, with little or no attention to how the team is working. Of those that do take time to look at the "how" not just the "what", the focus is too often inwardly directed. "Team spirit", "good communications" and "shared purpose" are not wrong. However, they miss the fundamental truth of being a commercial team. Success is created outside not inside the team.
The Internet Scams Anonymous (ISA) Groups
With the number of New Internet Users or Newbies is growing at more than 44% per year, these groups are a powerful aid to those joining us online. We are pleased to announce continued growth of The Internet Scams Anonymous (ISA) Groups with the addition of several new sites. Our first free group was formed with Swom after nearly 2 years of research into internet scams, fraud and online crimes. Current locations of our Handbook and ISA Groups
Six Conversations for Team Success - The Key Questions
Intelligent conversations for teams help them to focus on what really matters.  Team development events, away days and team meetings are all opportunities to review how the team works. There are fundamental questions that any successful team or organisation pays attention to on a regular basis.  These twelve questions cover six areas and together ensure a balance between an internal and external focus.  
Six Conversations for Team Success - What To Talk About
Having intelligent and productive conversations helps teams and individuals recognise their strengths and weaknesses, knowns and unknowns, facts and assumptions.  A structure or agenda for the conversations helps keep discussions focussed and purposeful. The really important conversations, those that are vital to survival and sustained success are about the outside world - where the customers, suppliers, investors, stakeholders, sponsors, partners and supporters live.
Six Conversations for Team Success - Ensuring Intelligent Conversations
Teams need to know how to work together and have conversations which help the process of understanding and optimising the knowledge, skills and attitudes available within the group. "Six Conversations for Team Success" is a framework to help teams structure their conversations so that the most important and relevant topics are addressed. Using a disciplined approach to talking with each other helps make for intelligent conversations where ideas occur, new thinking emerges and great things happen.

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Networking for Fun & Profit
Networking events can work for both business-to-consumer (B-to-C) and business-to-business (B-to-B) companies. Some of these events have a theme; such as industry (hospitality firms), descriptive (marketing firms), or location (businesses on the west side of town). Your local business press should print the networking groups in your area along with the day, time and location of their meetings. Many networking groups are local, while others are national lead exchange groups such as Le Tip and BNI.
Crisis Leadership Reduces Stress and Improves Performance
Crises and emergencies are taxing to individuals, groups and organizations. Many people are automatically thrown into a fight-or-flight reaction, and others simply become depressed and passive. Either way, the stress on individuals and groups is significant and can be highly debilitating for performance. This article highlights techniques and principles you can use to lead in a crisis.
Uncovering Your "Best-odds" SMB Prospects
As a seller in the SMB market space, you want to target groups of companies where you have the best opportunity to get business in the door. You cannot afford to waste time pursuing all the companies in your territory. Rather, you want to identify the groups of companies that will require the least amount of times and money to get the highest return for your lead generation efforts. Those are called your "best odds" target markets.

Top 7 Reasons Why Business Networking Organizations Fail
Business networking is a great way to meet your business to business target market. These groups or organizations can literally become an unpaid sales force for the small to mid size business owners depending upon their industry, After being involved in several business networking groups, I have observed these 7 common traits that separate the truly great business networking groups from the failed ones.
CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: The Networking Journey……How networking has changed and where it is heading
May saw me celebrate a ten-year anniversary. On 11th May 1999 I started work for Business Referral Exchange, then a new networking organisation founded six months previously and with just four groups running in London, Hertfordshire and Essex. At the time networking as a formal activity was little known in the UK, with a few independent groups supplementing the networking offered by Chambers of Commerce and community groups such as Rotary. How times have changed! Networking is now a key activity for millions of small business owners across the World and, with the rise of social online networks, is being recognised as a key skill for everyone, from jobseekers to global corporates.

Chrysler and GM Update To Automotive Dealers
The following is the most pertinent information available today regarding Chrysler and GM as it relates to our dealer, attorney and CPA clients. The information is from multiple sources and groups, plus interaction we are currently having inside active transactions as we work with banks and their work out groups as well as the sales divisions of multiple manufacturers.
CONNECTING IS NOT ENOUGH: Busting the Myth
This article originally appeared in The National Networker It’s time to shatter a few illusions now. I’m sorry but networking groups do not produce referrals. That may disappoint a few people who have spent a lot of time and money joining groups in the hope of generating new business. Hours spent at breakfast meetings, lunches and chatting over canapés when you could have been watching The Apprentice…..all wasted.
Business Development: Getting the Most Out of a Mastermind Group
Entrepreneurism is on the rise, and so are the mastermind groups that allow entrepreneurs to share diverse perspectives and strategies on business development. But not all mastermind groups are created equal. Choosing the right mastermind means striking a balance between entrepreneurs who are similar to you, and entrepreneurs who have a different perspective.
Don't Protest the Rich, Get Rich
The rich would love nothing more than for everyone move up an income or wealth level. It is ridiculous to think the the richest 1% want to hold others down and are the supposed oppressors of all other financial groups. The intense protest against wealthy groups as the cause of those that 'don't have' is becoming a disgusting show of irresponsibility and a demonstration of ignorance at the best.

The Internet Scams Anonymous (ISA) Groups
With the number of New Internet Users or Newbies is growing at more than 44% per year, these groups are a powerful aid to those joining us online. We are pleased to announce continued growth of The Internet Scams Anonymous (ISA) Groups with the addition of several new sites. Our first free group was formed with Swom after nearly 2 years of research into internet scams, fraud and online crimes. Current locations of our Handbook and ISA Groups
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