In my previous post, we introduced the idea that the dream workplace exists. There are a number of techniques you can use to build your dream workplace. Last week we experienced the “Team Circle”...
The Dream Workplace Components: Team Circles
In some of my previous posts, I’ve addressed a number of different workplace environments – many of which are not what you’d consider a dream workplace. But with those other workplaces so prevalen...
What Are You Doing? Why? How?
Whether the game is football, soccer, or hockey, every team has a playbook that contains the answers to the fundamental questions that everyone on the team must know in order to be successful. For ...
Time to Build Up That Confidence
Over the past several posts I’ve shared how you can take a real look at your level of confidence in your team members. Ultimately, confidence is the foundation of every relationship and therefore,...
Identifying Your Confidence Busters
By this point, if you’ve been following our recent posts, you’ve taken a few quizzes and found that your confidence and trust could be improved. Need to revisit those quizzes? Visit the previous p...
How Much Confidence Do You Have in People At Work? The Results
Welcome back! In my previous post, you started the process of evaluating how much confidence you have in each of your co-workers. In essence, you measured your views in terms of the Five Confidenc...
How Much Confidence Do You Have in People At Work? The Quiz
Are you struggling to delegate responsibilities? Do you feel like you have to do all the thinking for your team? Do things not go as planned unless you micromanage the process? You may lack confi...
5 Confidence Factors
In a Collaborative Workplace, this environment is only as strong as the relationships that exist between team members. The foundation of those relationships is confidence and trust. There are five ...
From The Mouths of COOs
I’ve spent the past 20 years studying collaboration in the workplace. As a result, I’ve worked in and with some of the most dysfunctional workplaces and some of the most amazing workplaces. As a te...
The Three Ineffective Workplaces to Avoid – The Open Workplace
In my previous two posts, we introduced two of three ineffective workplaces that unhappy employees can experience, the Defensive Workplace and the Paternalistic Workplace. If those place didn’t so...
The Three Ineffective Workplaces to Avoid – The Paternalistic Workplace
In my previous post, we introduced the first of three ineffective workplaces that unhappy employees can experience, the Defensive Workplace. The second workplace might not seem like such a bad pla...
The Three Ineffective Workplaces to Avoid – The Defensive Workplace
We all have either worked in or are currently working in an environment that isn’t optimal. Chances are this workplace you’ve experience is like one of our three ineffective workplaces: the ...