Are you comfortable saying, “no” to your boss? It’s important to be a team player, however if your boss continuously piles new projects on your plate, inevitably you will have to delay other work or worse yet, not complete the request at all—which will reflect poorly on you. The ability to say “no” is a…
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Three Ways to Lead Your Team to the Next Level
Sometimes leaders wish that they had stronger teams, but how many examine themselves to ascertain how their leadership style impacts their team’s performance? There are two sides of the high performance team equation. First, managers must exhibit stellar leadership skills to drive employee engagement. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of variance…
Get The Other Person Saying, “Yes” Immediately
Projects rarely move forward and new initiatives are rarely successful if you do not have cooperation from your team. A great technique to build cooperation among team members is to help your team better understand why and how the project or initiative can positively effect them. One way to do that is to get your…
Make Team Building a Positive Experience!
For some, the idea of working in a team conjures up positive images of everyone coming together and successfully completing a task or project. For others, it causes a more negative response: being left with all the work, no group cohesion, and, ultimately, failure of the project. Whatever your past experience with teamwork, it will…