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Leaders Succeed by Knowing Their Team Members’ Individual Strengths
Not every team at an organization succeeds in its mission. One strategy that can help: Leaders should be fully informed about team members' individual strengths. A recent posting at the Leadership ...
4 Tips for Encouraging Innovation
Looking to build an innovative team? It's not about bringing innovative new people into your workforce but rather empowering the people already in your organization, says a recent Harvard Business ...
Getting Teams to Work (When No One Wants To)
We love teams, but wherever we look, we see a sad truth: Most teams underperform. A large part of the reason relates to passion—often teams have members who simply have no interest in being there. ...
The Art of Translation: Why Middle Managers Are Key to Building a Strong Culture
There's an art to translation. Just ask the former president who once referred to himself as a jelly doughnut while speaking in German, or the banking group HSBC, which spent $10 million rebranding ...
Getting in the Game
Insurers looking to build on their corporate culture have an abundance of team builder providers to choose from these days; it's all a matter of what looks good, works well, is cost-effective and ...
Fun at Work: Carriers Using Games to Build Teams, Spur Creativity
Ever just want to drop a bunch of your team members off at a strange place and lose the key? Here's your chance. Big insurers are delving into one of the newest aspects of corporate team building: ...
Eight Steps to Creating a Loyalist Team
Teams work or they fail to work. And often, the people on them can't give specific reasons for either outcome. When teams fail, they often dissolve into cliques riddled with blame or confusion. You ...
Trust, Connection Needed to Optimize Teams
For a team to operate at an optimal level, members must trust and respect each other and feel a sense of connection to the group, says Professor Kristin J. Behfar of the University of Virginia Darden ...