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How to Get a Highly Competitive Sales Force to Collaborate
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| A business owner told me the other day that he can't get his sales employees to collaborate well on projects. His previous manager had created an incentive program that rewarded individual sales. The manager had attracted sales associates who thrive in a competitive environment.
Due to the economic downturn, the owner had let a few of the low performers go and was consequently reviewing his corporate strategies. What prompted this review was his plummeting market share seized by a competing company with a true team culture. Then he asked me, "How do you get highly competitive sales people to collaborate?" My response offered the following three suggestions.
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Team Interdependence When We Win I Win
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| Team Interdependence is the second of six collaborate core values that build highly effective teams. The other five are trust, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The six collaborative values form the acronym, TIGERS.
Team Interdependence is based on the concept: If we win - I win. This article delves into behaviors that build team interdependence and discusess behaviors that predictably disrupt interdependence in any group of two or more people who have come together to achieve something of value. |
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Team Building with Happiness
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| The number one CEO coaching piece of advice from Zappos.com CEO, Tony Hsieh, is to build a culture that allows happiness to thrive. This article explores this team building tip and explores what companies can do to enhance their culture and team building success. |
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Success: The Collaborative Win
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| For some people, success is everything. Winning at all costs is the name of the game.
Collateral damage is calculated. If someone is hurt in the process it’s unfortunate, but that’s the way it is. You will hear leaders say things like, “You are either with me or against me.” There is no middle ground. Some people call these leaders good business people. Others call them short sighted.
Loyal followers abandon ship when it is clear the collateral damage includes them or when their personal values and integrity collide with business practices as usual. Is there a better way?
This article looks at success from a collaborative perspective where winning strikes an effective balance between how work is done and the people who acieve it. |
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Risk: Making the leap
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| As a collaborative team value, the ability to take calculated and well-reasoned risks is a foundation for building an effective organization with the capacity to learn about itself, to expand and grow.
When fear is present, however, growth and forward momentum stagnate. This article looks at organizational behaviors and practices that both encourage and discourage an employee's willingness to take appropriate and well-reasoned risk.
Risk is the fifth of six values that build collaboration in groups. Without risk being t6olerated at the cultural level, many organizations penalize people for thinking. |
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Leading Like TIGERS: A Successful Team Building Model
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| Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win." |
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Leadership and Greed
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| Greed. Some call it an ugly green monster. And, it seems to be a topic we are hearing a lot about in the US news today.
This article defines greed and differentiates between individualistic and collaborative work cultures and practices. It also gives you criteria for discerning leadership greed in your organization.
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It’s not only what you say that counts, it’s what you do.
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| Your business core values announce to the world what you stand for and what is important to your daily operations. They form the soul of your team and by inclusion or omission are seen daily in how your employees treat one another and your customers. This article is the first in a series to explore six collaborative core values and gives you three ways to start benefiting from your values today. |
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How To Restore Trust For Team Building Success
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| This article reviews five skills that serve leaders when diffusing employee distrust to mobilize productivity for team building success.
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How to repair trust after workforce reduction
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| Workforce reduction and the way it is handled either reinforce congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness. When this happens, team work success and trust is compromised. This article offers two suggestions for successful entrepreneurs on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so.
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How To Improve Your Team Building Success
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| Teams, regardless of size and mission, often become snared in conflict when seeking solutions to problems. This is true in both the public and private sector, and it’s true whether teams are working at the community level or addressing national issues.
This article focuses on five important team functions to pay attention to in avoiding conflict and maximizing team effectiveness. |
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Genuineness: Can You Bring Problems To Light?
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| Genuineness as a cultural core value allows you to know when something is not right.
Genuineness is required in critical thinking and the process of evaluation in order to make improvements.
This article explores behaviors that build genuineness in the work place and the cultural behaviors needed to bring problems to light. In most competitive cultures, when there is a problem – the person who recognizes it is often exploited and through competition is made the loser.
Genuineness is the third of six collaborative core values that build highly effective teams. The other values are trust, interdependence, empathy, risk and success – TIGERS.
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For Entrepreneurs And Small Business Owners: How To Avoid Six Big Business Expansion Mistakes
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| The number of entrepreneurs, family owned businesses and small business enterprises are growing in both Canada and the United States. This article gives you six funding and growth mistakes to avoid whether you are building, selling or passing ownership to the next generation. |
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Five Ways to Improve Your Team Building Success
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| The key to minimizing conflict and maximizing team building success is to pay attention to the following five important team functions. These functions are critical for every stage of the team building process and for every step the team takes to complete its mission. |
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Five Tips For Building A Wildly Successful Team Based Business
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| Learn about five simple steps entrepreneurs and small business owners can take to increase their business volume and employee satisfaction. |
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Empathy Performance: Why It Is Important For Sustainable Team Cultures
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| This article addresses hiring criteria that minimizes the effects of conflict and communication on team cohesiveness. In this issue, we explore the universal team value, empathy, and why empathy skills are important for reducing conflict and improving communication for sustainable team cultures.
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EMPATHY – CAN YOU WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES?
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| Emapthy as a collaborative team value is necesaary for team conflict resolution. Yet work teams report that team conflict is one of the largest problems facing teams today.
This article explores the collaborative team core value, empathy, and behaviors that both build and negatively effect empathy in the work place. |
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Competition VS Interdependence
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| Competition is essential for business success. At the same time, internal competition damages your group intelligence, retards your growth and disrupts team morale. In this article, we explore what interdependent processes and leadership practices can do for your team. |
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Being Genuine Why Conflict and Confrontation Is Good During Uncertain Times
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| Genuineness is a learned behavior and skill each person brings to the team. The good news is that being genuine can also lead to conflict and confrontation which are important for organizations in uncertain times. This article reviews the value of confrontation to growing and thriving organizations and offers six ways to instill genuineness into the workforce. |
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Courageous Strategies For Your Business Recovery
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| Are businesses recovering from the recession? Two years ago, Alan Beaulieu - principal at the Institute for Trend Research - predicted that the United States and its global partners would be heading into a deep recession, including a stock market correction. This notion differed greatly from mainstream economists, including those at the Federal Reserve Bank. That happened. What are the steps you can take now to leap forward in your business. It is our prediction that hose who are prepared for the change will benefit the most. How to prepare is the subject of this article.
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NOW IS THE TIME TAKE YOUR TEAM TO THE NEXT LEVEL
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| For those businesses clearly intending to survive the weak economy now is the time to prepare for the better times ahead. This article discusses how to build and improve your work teams so the company is ready for business expansion when the economy inevitably makes the turn upward. |
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10 Best Management Qualities - That Make a Difference!
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| Management is about driving results for the organization you work for. Yet there can be more to this than simply the numbers adding up, much more... |
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Innovation minus Support = Zero Creation
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| There is an abundance of creativity in our world. Humanity is replete with inspirational people who have enormous value to contribute in their own ways - yet most are never seen or heard. As a collective society, we seldom encourage others to take a path of innovation because it's untested, risky, and breaks convention and related reputations. |
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Got a Great Idea? Here's What to Do Next...
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| How to move forward with your great ideas |
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Small Business Interview Series – Executive Coaching, Team Building and Leadership Development
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| Coaching is a great way for small business owners to develop leadership skills, build strong teams and grow their organizations. In this installment of the small business interview series, I speak with leadership and learning specialist Tammy Dewar, Ph.D., Principal at Calliope Learning in Victoria, B.C. |
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