Too many negative interactions can drain energy and creativity from a team, leading to poor performance. Even too many positive interactions can have a negative impact, as there is no one to play “devil’s advocate” or even just be the voice of reason. It can quickly lead to group-thinking where everyone says yes without analysing …
3 SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN KEYS FOR BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS Read More »
Organisations are chaotic systems and employe behaviour is often difficult to predict. Controlling variables that impact an organisation requires attention to both chaos and order. Not only can they co-exist, but both are necessary for sustainable growth. But first, let’s talk about the weather. Why is it with all the sophisticated technology we have now, …
CONTROLLING CHAOS AND THE NECESSITY OF ORDER IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANISATIONS Read More »
High performing teams move through five stages of development. Managing the storming stage — where conflict occurs — is crucial to your growth. Here’s how it all work. You know when you walk into a room and ask how things are going and people say fine — but they really don’t mean it? Sooner or …
HOW THE RIGHT TYPE OF CONFLICT CAN BOOST TEAM PERFORMANCE Read More »
When building a house, it starts with forming a solid foundation upon which everything else sits. You can build the nicest house in the world, but if the foundation isn’t solid, it won’t sustain itself over time. Businesses work the same way. You may see success early on, but unless there is a foundation to support …
THE 8 BUILDING BLOCKS OF EVERY HIGH PERFORMANCE ORGANISATION Read More »
In 2012, I was approached by a large international IT company to get a stalled project team back on track. It was a classic scenario of the difficult handover of a project between 2 teams, one based in Paris and the other based in Delft. The Delft team recently took ownership of the software application …
PROJECT HANDOVERS ALWAYS FAIL!? THAT OLD-FASHIONED TRICK ALWAYS WORK! Read More »
We all crave appreciation, feedback and want to feel noticed. These things make us human, but they could also be the difference between average project delivery and exceptional success. So how do you increase your team performance? How do you make engineers deliver once in a lifetime results and become a more cohesive unit? In …
HOW TO GET ENGINEERS BUILD CONFIDENCE AND AIM HIGHER Read More »
Achieving harmony and competition in your high-performance team is a delicate balance. Too much emphasis on either of these outcomes can have negative consequences. Your focus as a leader should be on keeping both outcomes in line without letting one become dominant over the other. But what is the right balance? High-performance teams NEED …
BALANCE HARMONY AND COMPETITION IN HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS Read More »
They had to be physically separated, in front of the supplier’s team watching in disbelief. Let’s find out what happened, why and what we can learn from it to prevent and manage conflict in engineering teams and how to foster innovation and healthy collaboration. This is a true story. It all happened in Germany, back …
THAT TIME I WITNESSED 2 ENGINEERS FIGHT IN FRONT OF A SUPPLIER Read More »
