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#Teams365 #655: Leadership Toolbox - Meetings

10/17/2015

Keeping aligned with our recent focus on powerful presentations, this week's Leadership toolbox looks at creating powerful meetings and resources to support you in doing that. Here are five that I often recommend:

1. Death By Meeting- Patrick Lencioni
2.Meeting Hero: Plan and Lead Engaging, Productive Meetings - Tom LaForce
3. Let's Stop Meeting Like this: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done - Dick Axelrod and Emily Axelrod
4. Effective Meeting's 6 Tips - Meeting Basics. Read it here.
5. HBR's How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting - Read it here.

What other resources would you recommend around meetings?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized
Leadership, Teamwork and Coaching
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#Teams365 #648: Leadership Toolbox: Presentations

10/10/2015

A main focus here at the blog this week has been around presentations. today's Leadership Toolbox shares with you five resources you may want to explore in polishing and honing your own presentation skills. Five of my favorites include:

1. Garr Reynolds - Presentation Zen

2. Resources from Nancy Duarte, at Duarte.com, including her TED Talk

3. Impact Factory's Presentation Skills information

4. Fran Rees' - The Facilitation Excellence Handbook

5. A really great animated short on Being a More Confident Public Speaker from Wellcast

What other resources do you enjoy and find useful with your groups?

Have a great weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
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#Teams365 #641: Leadership toolbox - Virtual Facilitation

10/3/2015

This week's Leadership Toolbox focuses on Virtual Facilitation resources. I recently provided a presentation on skills, best practices and platforms for virtual programming. Whether you are having to design a webinar, lead a virtual meeting or coach virtually, you may be interested in checking out these resources:

Cammy Bean – The Accidental instructional Designer, 2014J
Jane Bozarth – Better than Bullet Points, 2013
Jennifer Britton From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching – Chapter 7 – Virtual Design and Delivery, 2013
Cindy Huggett – Virtual Training Guidebook, 2013
Becky Pluth – Webinars with Wow Factors, 2010

What other resources do you enjoy around designing powerful virtual meetings and presentations?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized

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#teams365 #605:Leadership Toolbox - Goals

8/28/2015

Today's Leadership Toolbox focuses on goals and several resources you may want to check out whether you are doing your own personal goal setting or team goal setting.

And first - a reminder of the old project management adage - ten minutes of planning can save 1 hour of unfocused effort.

Here are fourresources you may want to check out around goals

7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven Covey

Life Hack – Goal Setting Exercise - http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/one-the-best-goal-setting-exercises.html

Daniel Goleman - Focus

Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results – Robert Pozen

What resources do you recommend around goals?

Have a great weekend
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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#Teams365 #598: Leadership Toolbox - Matrix Management

8/21/2015

It's Friday and time for a couple of resource recommendations to add to your Leadership Toolbox. This week I've been focusing on Matrix Management issues here at the blog - you can read this week's posts here.

Five resources I have enjoyed referring to over the years as I have either worked as a matrix leader myself, or supported others in organizations, are:

Kevan Hall's Making the Matrix Work: How Matrix Leaders Engage People and Cut Through Complexity - check it out here.

The Life in a Matrix Blog from Global Integration - the quintessential blog for all things related to the matrix. It's must-read and has inspired my own blogging over the years.

Reference for Business' article on Matrix Management - click here to read

MindTools article on Matrix Management - click here to read

A robust listing of articles on Matrix Management from the Matrix Management Magazine.

Are there any other resources you would recommend around Matrix Management.

Have a great weekend,
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 enhancing your collaboration through coaching, training or a retreat program

#Teams365 #591: Leadership Toolbox - Global Leadership

8/14/2015

This week we have been focusing on the topic of global leadership. My own leadership roots are firmly grounded in this area. I hope that you have enjoyed the posts this week on the topic - more to come next week!

Here are five resources you may be interested in tapping into if you are a global leader or supporting global leaders in being as effective as they can be:

Jack Zenger – 6 Competencies Global Leaders Need to Succeed: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackzenger/2014/06/26/the-6-competencies-global-leaders-need-to-succeed/

Jackie Vilet’s Five Critical Skills for Effective Global Leadership – OC Tanner: http://blog.octanner.com/leadership/5-critical-skills-for-effective-global-leadership

Eleven Key Characteristics of Global Business Leaders from Darden - https://ideas.darden.virginia.edu/2014/01/11-key-characteristics-of-a-global-business-leader/

HBS Developing the Global Leader Julia Hanna http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6967.html''

and finally Nelely's Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create Moments - from HBR - https://hbr.org/2012/03/global-team-leaders-must-delib

What resources would you recommend to other team leaders in the global domain?

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Contact us to discuss coaching or performance support you or your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

About Jennifer: Jenn is the founder of Potentials Realized a Canadian based performance improvement company. We provide customized training and coaching supports for leaders and their teams in the areas of teamwork, coaching and mentoring skills, and leadership development. Jennifer is the author of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and has helped develop leaders and teams globally since the early 1990s, first as a team leader herself, then as Program Director and internal consultant, and for the last 11 years through Potentials Realized as a trainer, consultant and coach. Jennifer offers both public programs for team leaders (The Teams365 Coaching Groups and Teams365 Leadership Foundations programs) and also works with organizations to build their own internal programs

#TEams365 #584: Leadership Toolbox - ENCORE - Delegation

8/7/2015

Today's Encore post is revisiting Delegation a topic of interest to so many new team leaders. Is this is an interest of yours here are a few posts to check out:

The Dreaded D Word - Delegation - Teams365 Post #391. Click here to read.

Delegation Tips - Teams365 Post #90 - Click here to read.

Five Resources to Support You With Delegation - Teams365 #392 - Click here to read.

8 Questions to Ask Yourself Around Delegation - Teams365 #393. Click here to read.

Audio - Delegation - Teams365 #193: Click here to listen in (5 min audio)

What other resources do you enjoy around delegation?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
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#Teams365 #570: Leadership Toolkit - Virtual Facilitation

7/24/2015

Today's Leadership Toolkit focuses on five resources you may want to tap into for further resources around Virtual Facilitation.

1. A past article I wrote on Five Principles for Virtual Facilitation

2. Facilitate.com also provides some excellent resources

3. Both of my books dedicate at least one chapter to virtual facilitation including Chapter 7 of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching and Chapter 6 of Effective Group Coaching.

4. Read all past posts I have written on Virtual Facilitation Skills here

5. A great article on 12 Trends for Mobile Learning in 2015 which you can read here at their site

What resources do you recommend to others around virtual facilitation?

Have a great weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time(TM)
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#Teams365 #556: Leadership Toolbox - Project Management

7/10/2015

The early years of my career had me heavily focused in on Program Development and Project Management in the global sphere. As a Program Director and Manager for more than a decade, project kick offs and close outs were an every day occurrence.

This week I have been focusing on different parts of the project cycle. For those that are interested in learning more, today's leadership toolbox focuses on five resources to support you in the area of project management:

The Project Management Guru website at ProjectManagementGuru.com

Project Management Time's article on the Top 10 Leadership Qualities of a Project Manager. Click here to read.

Villanova University's Article on Top 10 Project Management Challenges. Click here to read it.

A good article on Agile Management and Leadership - For those that have not heard of Agile - keep an eye open for these collaborative processes. This article comes from Jan Stratford at Tech Target. Read her article here.

An excellent article from the Liquid Planner's BLog on The Difference between Managing and Leading. Access it here.

What other resources would you recommend to others in the area of project management?

Have a great weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time(TM)
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#Teams365 #549: Leadership Toolbox - Team Development

7/3/2015

Today's Leadership Toolbox includes five resources invaluable for team leaders around team building. If you do not have a learning department or other supports, as leaders team building and development may come down to you. As a former team leader, and now external support to team leaders I know how important it is to have a robust toolbox to support your team development.

Today's Leadership Toolbox looks at five resources to support you in your team building efforts:

1. An article I wrote on 10 Tips for Team Building. Click here to read.

2. MindTools - A fantatsic collection of resources I have recommended many times, MindTools.com is an excellent resource. Click here to access their site.

3. BusinessBalls.com - an excellent collection of resources and facilitation tools team leaders and others may find useful in their team building, planning and other activities. Click here to access their site.

4. Wilderdom.com - Resources for teams and groups. Click here.

5. Read an accompanying digital chapter from my book - From One to MAny: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching. This chapter, Team Coaching In Action, shares four case studies of how team coaching can be used to support team development. Download the chapter here. Find out more about the book at our other site From12Many.com.

Have a terrific weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Contact us to discuss coaching or performance support you or your team