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Master Your Game: Foundation of High Performance Teams - Part 1
This is the third article in the series on High Performance Teams. Now that you've conducted your self-assessment, here are some suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of your teams. The first three category areas are discussed here. The last four categories will be covered in the next Master Your Game.
Master Your Game: High Performance Teams Self-Assessment
Last month, I talked about the difference between groups and teams. (See September newsletter.) I also discussed the many benefits of teams. For another important reason for improving your teams, look no further than the bottom line. When a team does not perform its task, the opportunity costs are great. Poor team results, missed deadlines, members not committed to the outcome, stress and frustration, unproductive hours - these are some consequences of poor-performing teams. How much are these worth to you? The good news is, with professional coaching, it is possible to convert your groups into teams. Furthermore, you can boost your team's level of performance from good to great. High performance teams mean mutual commitment that leads to innovative outcomes and measurable positive results.
Master Your Game: High Performance Teams
Many organizations talk about teams and teamwork but few really know how nor take the time to build teams. This article is the first in a series about teamwork. It explains the difference between a group and a team and outlines how dynamic teams lead to future success and growth.

How To Improve Your Team
Millions of dollars are misspent every year on team-building exercises and programs that do not get to the core of unlocking the potential of team performance. Teams are sent to exotic places to participate in fancy programs and fun activities that fail to help them achieve peak performance. This article explores why team-building programs fail and recommends ways to improve your team’s performance.
Bringing Association Teams Together - One Game At a Time!
In this article published in the Canadian Society of Association Executives Association Magazine details tips and techniques for getting teams to work together more efficiently.
Bringing Teams Together - One Game at a time
Using natural group dynamics to accelerate group learning.

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Not My Style!
Not My Style! This article covers the impact that leadership styles can have on business performance and the workplace environment. The content introduces seven styles of leadership and how professional leaders will use them to get the optimum performance from their teams and individuals within the team.
How To Improve Your Team
Millions of dollars are misspent every year on team-building exercises and programs that do not get to the core of unlocking the potential of team performance. Teams are sent to exotic places to participate in fancy programs and fun activities that fail to help them achieve peak performance. This article explores why team-building programs fail and recommends ways to improve your team’s performance.
Achieving Peak Performance
Athletes are trained to reach peak performance through a regime of coaching and mentoring. If they fail to reach world-class performance levels, they fail to achieve significant rewards. There are ways of applying the same concepts of coaching to business staff and even to teams of staff. Make sure your key staff achieve their maximum potential by reaching their peak performance.
Master Your Game: High Performance Teams Self-Assessment
Last month, I talked about the difference between groups and teams. (See September newsletter.) I also discussed the many benefits of teams. For another important reason for improving your teams, look no further than the bottom line. When a team does not perform its task, the opportunity costs are great. Poor team results, missed deadlines, members not committed to the outcome, stress and frustration, unproductive hours - these are some consequences of poor-performing teams. How much are these worth to you? The good news is, with professional coaching, it is possible to convert your groups into teams. Furthermore, you can boost your team's level of performance from good to great. High performance teams mean mutual commitment that leads to innovative outcomes and measurable positive results.
Master Your Game: Foundation of High Performance Teams - Part 1
This is the third article in the series on High Performance Teams. Now that you've conducted your self-assessment, here are some suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of your teams. The first three category areas are discussed here. The last four categories will be covered in the next Master Your Game.
Master Your Game: Foundation of High Performance Teams - Part 2
This is the fourth article in the series on High Performance Teams. Now that you've conducted your self-assessment, here are some suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of your teams. The first three category areas were discussed last month. The last four categories are covered here.
Tips to Improve Team Culture
The culture of a team governs its effectiveness. Most teams have a culture that allows adequate performance despite many unfortunate outbreaks of tension and sometimes childish behavior. It is unfortunate that more teams do not experience the exhilaration of working in a supportive culture that produces excellent results. The methods of building teams into high performing units are well documented, but most teams do not go through the rigor required to get to that level. This paper blends well known processes with horse sense born of experience that will allow any team to perform better.

Creating Emotionally Intelligent Teams
Teams are the most common business unit for high performance. Although the word gets used loosely and not always appropriately, there is universal acceptance that teams create opportunities for high performance results. A team's performance includes both individual results and collective work products, yielding sums greater than its parts. True teamwork promotes individual and collective performance. Effective teams value listening and communicating, sharing work responsibilities, provide support and can make work more social and enjoyable. Members are supportive of one another and recognize the interests and achievements of each other. When they are working the way they should, they are incredibly effective in achieving high performance results.
Matching Team Types and Focus
Managers' growing understanding of the power of a team-based organization has created an explosion of teams. We're now seeing a profusion of high-involvement teams, high-performance teams, corrective action teams, service and quality improvement teams, project teams, task forces, steering councils, process management and improvement teams, problem solving teams, cross-functional teams, departmental teams, work teams, regional or branch teams, self-directed and self-managed teams, semi-autonomous teams...to name just a few.

We Sell Like We Buy - The Yin and Yang of Sales
Many sales leaders fail to realize how their actions impact their sales teams' performance. The old adage of do as I say not as I do comes in to play. One of the severe impacts is the way in which our leadership goes about purchasing, the way in which they do that very much reflects the way their teams will end up selling, no matter what they might tell them to do. In short, We Sell like we Buy!
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