Posts in Team Operations
Make Meetings Relevant and Keep Them That Way

Activate ways-of-working is how you make sure your meetings are built around what matters to everyone on the team.

Every month or every quarter commit to stop, inquire, reflect and improve. Connect your learning sessions to specific areas that you want to enhance, even to specific on-going work that could benefit from the lessons learned. That’s the heart of Sustain & Renew as a discipline.

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Discipline – The Third Imperative for any High Performing Team

The world’s crazy enough. Whatever we can do within our teams to foster a sense of control, a sense of focus around the things that matter, will go a long way towards helping us meet the commitments we have made to each other and to our organizations.

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Too Many Teams? Know The Why And What To Avoid Burnout

I was working on a large-scale org design project at Mars, Inc.  a few years ago. The change management leader for this massive initiative asked me to develop an approach to help teams to navigate the changes they would be experiencing as part of the reorg. I had some good ideas (I’ll share those in an upcoming post) that I quickly committed to paper.

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