It Takes a Village - Celebrating the Support Teams While watching the Winter Olympics at Cortina, Milan (Italy), it’s easy to become awestruck by the physical prowess, stamina, power, and precision of the athletes in their respective events and ‘arena...
The Ideal Team Player (2 minute read) While few of us will (fortunately) never experience a battlefront, where we are relying on fellow soldiers who are in-the-trenches beside us, most of us can recall a sporting team-mate...
Teamwork & Collaboration Most of us are familiar with the thought-provoking question of whether Leaders are made or born. Yet, we often – incorrectly – assume that Teamwork and Collaboration are more a result of shared values... Teamwork
The Cohesive Team (2 minute read) Cohesion – (noun): the action of forming a united whole. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.” (Henry Ford) The success of any...
Teamwork & Diversity (2 minute read) There’s an old saying; “ Same equals safety !” We now understand this to imply that when we spend time with others of similar interests, education, demographics, affiliations, and pref... Teamwork
Teamwork – Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing (1 minute read) The phrase teamwork creates images of success on a collective scale. Jubilation, high-fives, celebrations, and the joy of sharing the same podium. While these images and outcomes are a... Teamwork
Teamwork and The FISH Philosophy (2 minute read) During 1997, after filming a documentary on Canada’s Vancouver Island, filmmaker John Christensen was shopping in Seattle when he heard cheering in the distance. Intrigued, he encounte... Teamwork
What Aristotle did for Teamwork (1 minute read) Technology giant Google conducted a two-year study to discover what sets their most effective teams apart from the pack. Their initial assumption was that high-performing teams were fo... Teamwork
A Teamwork Stitch-Up (2 minute read) When you think of the teamwork that goes into NASA’s Space Exploration Program, you most likely picture engineers, mathematicians, and scientists collaborating to get all the technical... Teamwork
The Team Manual (1 minute read) It can take months or years to get to know certain things about select members of your team. With the diversification of where and how we work, there are less opportunities for waterco... Teamwork
Making a Meal of Teamwork (1 minute read) Achieving excellence as a team can begin with one of the more elemental parts of our social culture – dining together. While the iconic ‘The Last Supper’ painted by DaVinci may not be ... Teamwork
Teamwork with a Growth Mindset (1 minute read) Be careful not to overestimate the challenge, by underestimating yourself. KIRBY When psychologist Carol Dweck released her bestseller, Mindset, it transformed our view of individual p... Teamwork