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#Teams 365 #59: Month End Reflection Questions

2/28/2014

As February comes to a close, it is time to take stock of the month.

Month-end reflection questions:
What have been your major achievements this month? For you? For your team?
What do you need to celebrate? When will you do this?
What do you need to acknowledge or recognize?
What do you need to share with others?

Month end is always a good time to take note of outstanding accomplishments for performance review processes. It's also a good opportunity to formally touch base with staff and see how they are doing and what their needs are.

Up tomorrow - questions to start the new month!

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
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Teams 365 #58: What Environment Do you Want to Create?

2/27/2014

Keith Ferrazzi writes a lot about relationship management in today's business context. His quote today gets us to think about the "environment and community" you want to create.

As we start to move into a new month in a few days, what is the environment you want to create with your team? What type of community is going to allow you to excel?

As an executive coach, I spend a lot of time in dialogue with leaders I work with around these two areas - the environment and community they want to create as part of their vision and also legacy. What is important about these topics for you?

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
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#Teams 365 #57: February RounD-up

2/26/2014

February is one of the shorter months of the year but we looked at a number of really important topics this month at the Teams 365 blog -
Strengths
Trust
Communication
Relationship Building

One of my favorite posts this month focused on the team leader behaviors which demonstrate trust. At the core of much of the work I do with teams who are facing challenges is this issue of trust. What can you do in the coming weeks to demonstrate more trust with your team and others? What impact do you notice?

As we start to wrap up the month of February, I wanted to include a quote by Maya Angelou. How are you making others feel? What will they remember about you?

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
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#Teams 365 #56: A Leader Is...

2/25/2014

A leader is....

One of my favorite leadership quotes is this one by Lao Tzu. As a former virtual team leader myself, empowerment of my team was critical to success. My role as a team leader focused a lot on trouble-shooting, resourcing, liaising and finding out from team members what would really help them excel.

What are you doing to support your team, and bring the best of of them? Where might you need to "fade out" a little, to allow them to excel?

A leader is many things. What type of leader are you?

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
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Teams 365 #55: Trust - Character and Competence

2/24/2014

There are a number of great models around trust which have been developed by experts. Two that I continue to refer to leaders and clients that I work with are:
Stephen Covey's Speed of Trust and Smart Trust
Reina and Reina's Trust and Betrayal in Today's Workplace

The models are different but they are grounded in the fact that trust is built by what we bring to the table as an individual - our character, as well as our skill, or competence in something.

Linda Hill and Kent Lineback, wrote a great article for HBR on Trust entitled "To Build Trust, Competence is Key". They do a great job of going into the different knowledge bases which can be useful

What is your level of competence? Ho would you describe your character?

Have a great start to your week,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized
Leadership | Team Coaching | Performance
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#teams 365 #54: The importance of Focus

2/23/2014

Today's quote if from Tom Rath, author of Strengths Based Leadership. He posits that if we try to be good at everything, we may wind up not being good at anything.

As you consider the current projects and priorities in your work , and the team's work, right now, who is best placed to do what? What are you really good at, and need to undertake? What are tasks or projects others might be more suited to lead?

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Email us to find out how we can support you and your team in getting your best results through coaching, training or a retreat program
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#Teams 365 #53: High Performing Team Framework

2/22/2014

The following is a flipchart I created at a recent team coaching session. Like we have started doing here at the Teams 365 Blog, we were exploring the six factors of a high performing team along with related teamwork competencies.

If you have been following our daily blog posts this year, what have you noticed about how your team is developing and shifting? How are you leveraging the six factors? What skills are you leading from?

Please email me with suggestions on where we may want to go in the upcoming months with posts. Also let us know how you are using these ideas in your work.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Email us to find out how we can support you and your team in getting your best results through coaching, training or a retreat program
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Teams 365 Audio #1 - Team Leader Behaviors that Build Trust

2/21/2014

Many of you have really enjoyed the recent post on team leader behaviors which build trust. Here is a short 5 minute audio where I expand on the blog post. You will be able to listen to the recording here.

Enjoy. Which area needs some shoring up for you? Please feel free to comment below.

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Email us to find out how we can support you and your team in getting your best results through coaching, training or a retreat program
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#Teams 365 #52: Self-TruST

2/21/2014

Today's quotation gets us to think about our own self-trust. How much do you trust yourself?

As Stephen Covey writes in his book Smart Trust, it is important for us to trust ourselves in order to build trust with others.

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Email us to find out how we can support you and your team in getting your best results through coaching, training or a retreat program
(416)996-TEAM (8326)

#Teams 365 51: Trust is A two way Street

2/20/2014

Trust is a two way street. In order to get trust, you need to give trust.

What are you doing to demonstrate trust with your team leaders? How is this being reciprocated?

Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Leadership and Team Development, Coaching, Retreats
Author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Email us to find out how we can support you and your team in getting your best results through coaching, training or a retreat program
(416)996-TEAM (8326)