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Managing (and surviving) in a high-intensity workplace
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Erin Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan
After interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that total selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and harmful. It has dysfunctional consequences not only for individuals but also for their organizations. The authors discuss three typical strategies (Accepting, Passing and Revealing) for coping with demanding workplaces, and the risks associated with each style. Managers can help by enforcing reasonable work hours, requiring vacations, and taking steps to protect employees’ personal lives.
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What management style are you?
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- 01 Jan 2024
- Scott Greenberg
A quiz is presented that managers can take to determine their dominant management style, which falls into one of four categories: Top Dog, Collaborator, Chillaxer, or Visionary. Excerpted from the book 'Stop the Shift Show: Turn Your Struggling Hourly Workers Into a Top-Performing Team' by Scott Greenberg.
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Why diverse teams reduce errors
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- 01 Dec 2023
- Heidi Grant, David Rock
Recent studies, including mock juries and simulated markets, reveal that diverse teams improve discussion, reduce errors, and excel in decision-making. Diverse teams promote constant re-examination of facts,
objectivity, and careful information processing, preventing biases and errors. Gender and cultural diversity in leadership also correlate with increased innovation and new product development.
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Leading remote or hybrid teams
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- 01 Nov 2023
- David J.Elrod
Leaders need to take special care to communicate effectively with remote or hybrid team members, says David J.Elrod. The article runs
through useful methods of communication and emphasises the need to provide clarity on strategic plans and priorities and give regular feedback.
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Cultivating virtual management skills for the hybrid world
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- 16 Oct 2023
- Alicia Morris
Today’s managers often need to engage and motivate their teams across multiple locations; yet it’s likely many have had no formal training
specific to virtual management. The article highlights key areas of focus for improving virtual team management skills, including accountability, hybrid meeting facilitation, communication methods and network mapping.
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Split your overwhelmed teams: Two teams of five is not the same as one team of ten
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Thomas A.Limoncelli
The author discusses how splitting teams into smaller sub-teams can solve issues such as stress and low morale. Smaller specialised teams can result in more efficient meetings, more clearly defined separation of duties, more leadership opportunities and reduced cognitive overload.
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Fixing a dysfunctional team
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- 01 Mar 2023
- N.Anand, Jean-Louis Barsoux
How to spot and counter self-sabotaging behaviour in your team. The article includes a list of questions to consider to assess whether the team is stuck in a destructive pattern of behaviour - and if so, which one.
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The value of connectors
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- 01 Dec 2022
- Romana L. Autrey, Tim Bauer, Kevin E.Jackson, Elena Klevsky, Margaret Shackell
Team members who act as 'connectors' can help reduce employee turnover, according to a new research study. The authors take a look at the traits and skills of connectors and the implications for teamwork in the finance function.
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Social contracts for teams
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Keith Ferrazzi
Team members must commit to new behaviours to accelerate innovation and growth, says Keith Ferrazzi. These behaviours emphasize candor, collaboration, accountability and continual improvement. His research findings show the advantages of prioritising leadership competencies over team competencies.
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Measure what matters
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Wes Friesen
Wes Friesen provides ten guidelines that can help you select the right measures and set the right targets for your team and the broader organization. Done well, your team performance measures can help improve your outcomes, inspire staff, provide a common focus and allow you to track progress.
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Company culture and team creativity
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- 01 Aug 2022
- Isabella Grabner, Aleksandra Klein, Gerhard Speckbacher
Companies that actively communicate shared core values are in a better position to achieve high creativity within project teams. The authors suggest designing projects so that team members have highly interdependent tasks but teams as a whole also have the ability to self-manage, without a team manager restricting their creative autonomy.
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Get your leadership team right
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Paul Leinwand, Mahadeva Matt, Blair Sheppard
CEOs need to fundamentally rethink their leadership teams, so that top executives focus on advancing meaningful change rather than managing the current business. The authors provide some steps to follow.
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Optimizing virtual team meetings: Attendee and leader perspectives
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- 01 Jun 2021
- Liana Kreamer, Steven Rogelberg, George Stock
The authors report on their study into the effectiveness of virtual meetings. They highlight meeting tactics which are particularly useful for virtual meetings; using these strategies will help mitigate many of the common challenges of virtual meetings.
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Managing and building remote finance teams
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- 01 Oct 2020
- Paul McDonald
The article looks at how many accounting and finance leaders keep their teams safe, maintain high productivity levels, and further build remote teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Agility in the c-suite
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- 01 May 2020
- Steve Berez, Sarah Elk, Darrell Rigby
A new approach to leadership for the team at the top. This article explores how agile leadership teams function, how they differ from conventional executive committees and from other agile teams, and what agile looks like for a senior executives' day-to-day role.
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Jumping into project management
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Javier Augusto Gonzalez
Five powerful tips for new project managers faced with fresh teams and uncertain authority.
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Understand the behaviors of leaders and team members to improve your organization
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- 01 Jan 2018
- David F Smith
Article looks at research on effective leadership showing that applying five specific leadership behaviors when working with each team member will improve your organization. Research also shows that team members can behave in three ways at work that improve their own work life.
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Resetting teams
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- 01 Dec 2017
- Denise Hartley-Wilkins
A look at the indicators of a team in trouble and how to 'reset' the team culture to provide a healthy, positive work climate.
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Time to take a smarter approach to procurement
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- 01 Apr 2017
- David Schannon, Sam Thakarar, Klaus Neuhaus
The article argues that a procurement team can provide leadership teams with valuable data, analysis and insights that influence what a company buys. It describes examples of companies benefitting from creating a collaborative partnership between procurement and the business.
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Pioneers, drivers, integrators, & guardians
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Suzanne M. Johnson Vickberg, Kim Christfort
When teams fall short of their potential, it’s often because leaders don’t know how to spot and manage the differences in how people approach their work. To get the most from the styles on their teams, leaders should pull opposite types closer together, give more voice to people with nondominant perspectives, and take extra care to get input from sensitive introverts.
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Managing your boss in the 21st century
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- 01 May 2016
- Clinton O. Longenecker, Laurence S. Fink
Tips for assessing the working relationship with your boss and developing a plan to make that relationship better, stronger and more productive
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The 5 biggest teamwork ills: prescriptions to help you avoid them
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Mario Moussa, Derek Newberry, Madeline Boyer
Discusses the different problems that affect teamwork in any group of individuals and how to avoid them.
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Seven steps to turn an underperforming team around
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- 01 Mar 2016
- Mark Wager
If a team is underperforming it’s very rare that the reason is anything other than poor leadership, says author Mark Wager. He provides a useful blueprint for turning your team around.
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Team building in the cafeteria
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- 01 Dec 2015
Research shows that eating together regularly enhances a team's performance.
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Making global teams work
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- 01 Oct 2015
Managers who lead global teams are up against stiff challenges. The article suggests key messages managers should get across to ensure better communication among their team.
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Leading global teams virtually
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Bud Kulesza
How managers can successfully lead global teams and encourage communication, using a combination of emails, group teleconference, phone or Skype meetings and one-on-one personal discussions.
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Managing yourself: Getting virtual teams right
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- 01 Dec 2014
- Keith Ferrazzi
Simple tips for maximising the productivity of virtual teams.
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Managing your boss
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- 01 Oct 2014
- Sattar Bawany
Effective managers need to maintain and develop good relationships, not only with their teams but with senior managers too. This article provides tips on managing upwards, both in terms of an immediate superior or wider senior team.
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When four worlds collide
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- 01 May 2014
- Talan Miller
Talan Miller looks at how models including Team Role theory, Tuckman's model and Belbin's team roles can be blended by leaders to build a high-achieving team. He suggests useful inputs from team leaders during the different stages of team development.
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Givers take all: the hidden dimension of corporate culture
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- 01 Apr 2014
- Adam Grant
A culture of helpfulness and information sharing can be built through exercises that build teamwork, rewarding 'givers' and avoiding recruiting 'takers'.
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