Beiträge von Sharon Taylor
11 Questions to Evaluate Your Training Programs
In our recent eBook: Building an Effective Soft Skills Training Program, we share a few thought starters to help you evaluate your talent development programs and determine how to make your soft skills training even more effective. Whether you are interested in enhancing soft skills or supporting any employee development initiative, it’s important to assess…
WeiterlesenTurn Conflict into Productivity of Your Executive Team
Effective teams are critical to the success of a business, and it starts at the very top of your company with the executive leaders. Yet, the C-suite can be a place where competing priorities and power dynamics cause harmful conflict. According to research published by three professors from Standard Graduate School of Business, the Booth…
WeiterlesenCommunicating as a Leader: It’s About More than Your Style
If you have ever applied for a position as a team lead, manager, department head or any other leadership role, you have likely heard the following question: what is your leadership style? I would argue an equally important question is: what is your communication style? After all, when you are in charge of leading –…
WeiterlesenTackling Four HR Challenges Through the Power of Cognitive Diversity
Intuitively, we all understand that it’s important to have different perspectives represented in the workplace. If you would like more than intuition, read these case studies that articulate the value of cognitive diversity in product development and problem solving, or read Harvard Business Review’s article: “Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse.” Simply…
WeiterlesenThe Connection Between Vulnerability and Trust in Teams
Stephen Covey, author of the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, once said: “Without trust we don’t truly collaborate, we merely coordinate or, at best, cooperate. It is trust that transforms a group of people into a team.” A few months ago, I wrote about the importance of team performance to a business’s…
WeiterlesenBuilding a Common Language to Communicate in the Global Workplace
Effective communication is critical to doing business. According to a study by Hart Research Associates, 93 percent of employers consider good communication skills to be more important than the major of a college graduate. HR Magazine reported that, in a survey of 4,000 employees, participants estimated they lost 40 minutes of productivity each day trying…
WeiterlesenThe Dynamics of High Performing Teams
Building high performing teams is an opportunity that most companies, nonprofits, boards, leaders and talent management departments are challenged by. After all, in the middle of managing daily operations and seeking out emergent opportunities, it can be easy to overlook team building. It’s typically only after notable challenges occur within or between teams that organizations…
WeiterlesenThe Power of WE: A Focus on Team Performance
I find it interesting that, despite the fact that team performance is often cited as critical to a company’s success, much of the training curriculum delivered within organizations has traditionally focused on individual leadership development. While it is vitally important to teach your employees how to build on their strengths, manage and support direct reports…
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