When team members are able to offer opinions and debate ideas, they will be more likely to commit to decisions. What do we mean by commitment? In the context of a cohesive team, commitment is: clarity around decisions moving forward with complete buy-in from every member of the team, even those who initially disagreed with […]
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When there is trust, team members are able to engage in unfiltered, constructive debate of ideas. All great relationships, the ones that last over time, require productive conflict in order to grow. It’s important to distinguish productive, ideological conflict from destructive fighting and interpersonal politics. Productive conflict is focused on concepts and ideas avoids mean-spirited
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When team members are genuinely transparent and honest with one another, they are able to build vulnerability-based trust. The first and foundational behaviour of a cohesive team is trust. Unfortunately, the word trust is used – and misused – so often it may not impart the same meaning to everyone. The definition here isn’t centred
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If the management team doesn’t work effectively then someone has to fill the performance gap. If it’s the business owner filling this performance gap, their focus inevitability becomes daily management, when they should be focussed on growing or working on their business. If owners and executives are filling gaps rather than lifting the performance of
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Managers make decisions every day that have a financial impact on a business. The allocation of resources, the prioritising of work tasks, and the focus on quality and customer service all have a cost and potential return, while rework, missed deadlines and wastage all have a negative cost on a business. Managers need to communicate