The decentralization of business processes has been a trend in the past few years as jobs have been increasingly outsourced worldwide. The 2020 pandemic pushed more companies to embrace remote working, adopt flexible scheduling and decentralize their organizational structure. Many of those businesses weren’t prepared for such a swift change. Some hired consultants, such as myself, to help them with the process. Click here for the full article by Konstantin Tsybulko
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3 Ways to Motivate Your Team Through an Extended Crisis by Anne M. Brafford and Richard M. Ryan Execution • High Performance Teams • Uncategorized
As we flip our calendars to yet another month of our large-scale Covid-19 remote-work experiment, it’s no wonder that motivation, performance, and well-being are flagging for many. Months in, managers need new tools to reenergize their teams, to accurately identify and diagnose recurring struggles, and to empathetically help employees address their problems. Click here for the full article by Anne M. Brafford and Richard M. Ryan
Storytelling Can Make or Break Your Leadership by Jeff Gothelf High Performance Teams • Leadership
“It’s a new goal-setting framework.” That was one of my large enterprise clients’ attempt at an inspirational rallying cry for their rollout of Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs. As you might expect, it wasn’t met with much enthusiasm: “Why do we need a new goal-setting system?” managers and employees protested. “What will this mean for my evaluation? Am I still on track for that promotion?” Click here for the full article by Jeff Gothelf
Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times by Francesca Gino and Dan Cable High Performance Teams • Leadership
As they try to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, people are stressed and scared — nervous about others’ and their own health and the state of the world. For those lucky enough to be healthy and working from home in quarantine, their jobs can seem trivial and irritating. Separated physically from their colleagues, customers, and normal workplace, they find themselves alone with their computers, sporadically touching base remotely with those they used to see regularly. Many feel lost. Leaders of organizations can help their people get through these trying times by coaching them as they reevaluate their lives and rethink what they add to the world. Here’s how. Click here for the full article by Francesca Gino and Dan Cable.
Don’t Let Teamwork Get in the Way of Agility by Elaine Pulakos and Robert B. (Rob) Kaiser High Performance Teams • Leadership
Effective teamwork has never been more important than it is today, as organizations face an exceedingly volatile economy with significant business threats. Prevailing wisdom would have us use teamwork as much as possible to face these challenges head-on. The theory is that working in teams — especially those with different skillsets and backgrounds — sparks innovation, enables agility, and leads to better outcomes. However, our recent research suggests that maximizing teamwork often fails to yield the results we expect; in fact, in some cases, it undermines them. Click here for the full article by Elaine Pulakos and Robert B. (Rob) Kaiser.
This Expert Boosts Organizational Health By Coaching High-Performing Teams By Mike Meagher Accountability • High Performance Teams • Leadership
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations struggled to keep pace with an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. As technology and culture rapidly iterate, businesses and organizations must either meet the ensuing new demands or fade into the background. Today’s organizations must optimize performance through high-performing teams.
Globalization means maximizing team performance is becoming more important than maximizing individual employee performance. Today, the whole is truly more valuable than the sum of its parts. According to data collected by the Harvard Business Review, workplace collaboration has increased by at least 50% over the past two decades, while over 75% of an average employee’s day involves communicating with colleagues. Click here for the full article.
How leaders can maximize trust and minimize stress during the COVID-19 pandemic by American Psychological Association Accountability • High Performance Teams • Leadership • Most Popular
People look to leaders for guidance on what to do, what to expect and how to act. During uncertain and fluid times, the need for strong, calm, trustworthy leadership is more important than ever.
Psychologists’ research points to several ways that leaders — whether they are government officials, business managers, educators, or parents — can improve their communication skills to maximize trust and minimize stress and anxiety:
Manage stress
People look to leaders to be calm and deliberate in their decisions and actions. Leaders who react to stressful events in highly emotional ways can add to people’s stress and anxiety. Leaders can start by slowing down, taking stock of their stress and understanding what is causing an emotional reaction. Even when facing the demands of a high-profile crisis, leaders must take breaks to reset and refocus. Click here for the full article.
How to Avoid Burnout in a Remote Team BY ALISON GROVES Execution • Generations • High Performance Teams
Working remotely is a wonderful thing. It allows you to work in your best environment, giving your teammates and company the chance to have your best work. It also lets you call your own shots, leaving you more creative, happier, and healthier (hello no germs spreading around an office!).
But there is a tendency to work more while working remotely. When your home is your office, it’s hard to put separation between your work life and personal life. Though total control is great, not being able to pull yourself away from work can more easily lead to burnout.
When you’re part of a distributed team, what’s the best way to cope and balance the great aspects about remote working with the sometimes-not-so-great parts? We posed that question to 22 members of remote teams around the world. Here are their responses, with actionable ways to help you avoid getting burned out while working remotely. And even if you work in a traditional, on-site team, you’ll likely find tips here to help you keep balance in today’s mobile-first, always connected world. Click here for the full article.
Managers: Here’s A 7-Step Practical Guide To Leading A Remote Team By Leah Ryder Execution • Generations • High Performance Teams • Leadership
Managers of remote teams do all the same things in-office managers do: Hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, weekly check-ins, and more. We just do them a little… differently. Yes, we use many (many) Zoom calls to keep up facetime with our teams, but managing employees who work from home 100% of the time takes more strategic thinking and intentional planning than simply recreating in-office scenarios in a digital world. Click here for the full article.
Your Team Is Now Working Remotely—5 Ways To Strengthen Communication And Team Cohesion In The COVID-19 World By Nicole Bendaly Execution • Generations • High Performance Teams • Leadership
Many teams are waking up to a new reality of working remotely. Working remotely creates a new set of challenges that are being amplified by the added stress of school closures and by the anxiety many are facing during this pandemic. A crisis like this can either break a team down and widen any cracks in its foundation, or it can result in the emergence of true greatness. As a leader, having the right mindset, structure and strategies to enhance communication and build team cohesion will help you ensure the latter is true for you and your team. I hope the concrete strategies and steps I share below will help you to bring some added calm, focus and renewed energy to your team. Click here for the full article.