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#TeamS365 #1145: Six Factors Team Leader Breakfast Cafe Recording

2/18/2017

Since the start of the year our focus on Saturday's has been on different teamwork skills. This weekend I wanted to take us back to an audio post I did a while ago as part of the Teams365 Team Leader Breakfast series on the Six Factors which are essential for teams to thrive.

Click on over to our Team Leader Breakfast Series page and check out this October 2014 post.

As you listen, how are you as a team doing in terms of these six factors? What could use some attention?

Enjoy your long 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 leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
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#TEams365 #893: REminder of Past Team Leader Breakfast Cafe Calls

6/11/2016

It's the weekend and time to catch up on some listening! A reminder that you can access the past Team Leader Breakfast Cafe calls online at our Coaching TeamLeaders.com site.

You can listen into the past calls on:
The Six Factors of High Performing Teams
Strengths
and Team Culture

Each call is approximately 15- 20 minutes in length. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
Phone: (416)996-8326

#Teams365 #799: March Webinar - Coaching Skills for Leaders

3/9/2016

Here ar Potentials Realized part of our mandate is to provide valuable resources which team leaders can use in their work. As such, over the last three years I've experimented with a variety of complimentary educational monthly series. In fall 2014 I launched the Team Leader Breakfast Cafe series, a20-30 minute call held in the morning. You can listen into some of those calls here. Late last year I started experimenting iwth offering a monthly blab for team leaders. Your feedback indicated that it was a little more difficult to participate in, due to firewall issues and availability, so this month we returned back to a webinar format, AND I think you'll like it.

I'd like to invite you to view our March Webinar on Coaching Skills for Leaders, and area I spend a lot of my time and attention around. Listen into what core skills leaders can benefit from, as well as benefits from integrating a coaching approach. I also go into essential steps in the coaching process, based on my writing in my book, From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013).

What are your next steps around coaching in your work?

Have a great Wednesday,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats.
Author of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2009)
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
Phone: (416)996-8326

#Teams365 #400: Celebrating 400 and February Team Leader Breakfast Cafe

2/4/2015

Today we celebrate another milestone here at the Teams365 blog - our 400th post! What started out as just an idea 13 months ago, has emerged into a deep resource for team leaders and team members. I hope that you have enjoyed the journey so far!

This morning was our monthly Team Leader Breakfast Cafe call. You can listen to it here. In addition to taking a look back at where we've been with our monthly Breakfast Cafe calls, I also spoke about the importance of styles, and understanding our styles as leaders and in the team context. Understanding our natural inclinations, especially when under stress such as time pressure, competing demands, or uncertainty, can be extremely useful. Knowing our own styles, and that of our co-workers, can help to identify potential frictions before they arise, allowing us to be proactive and make adjustments.

As I mentioned in the call, I offer the Everything DiSC for clients which can be rolled out to individuals, or as part of a team development process. If you are interested in learning more, please let me know.

Questions flowing out of today's call include:

With consistent focus and effort, what's possible for you?
What is your natural style? How does it help you? What's the flip side of it, or how does it create a blind spot for you?

In the call I've also invited you to participate in a short exercise to get you thinking about how you see your style and how others see you. Please feel free to share your insights here.

A reminder that our March Team Leader Breakfast Cafe call will be held on Wednesday March 4th. It will be held a little earlier in the morning as I will be working that day with a team of leaders. Please mark it in your calendar!

Have a great Wednesday,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized
Author of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching(Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010)
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
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Everything DiSC® Authorized Partner
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#Teams365 #372: January 2015 Team Leader Breakfast Cafe Call on Goals

1/7/2015

A few hours ago I hosted the January 2015 Team Leader Breakfast Cafe call on Goals for the new year. I cover five main areas you will want to keep in mind as you are setting and executing your team and leadership goals for this year. You can listen to the 20 minute call here:

This was the first of our monthly Team Leadership Breakfast Cafe calls which are typically held on the first Wednesday of each month. The sixth in the series, you can listen back to my past monthly calls which covered topics including Team Culture, Strengths, High Impact Meetings and High Performing Teams at it's dedicated page over at my CoachingTeamLeaders.com site.

One resource you may want to download is the One Page Plan Framework from my Inner Biz Leader Virtual Business Planning Retreat. You can download the one page plan document here and use it to house visibly your top 5 goals for the year (or month or quarter).

If you are looking for more resources and support in this area I hope that you will consider the Inner Biz Leader Virtual Business Planning Retreat a program you can take at your own pace, which will support you in exploring your vision and plan for this year, along with some of your core leadership foundations. Udemy, the site I host it on, has it on a dramatically reduced price of $10 as a new year's special for a few days. You can take it at any pace you'd like and can access it here.

Enjoy this month's team leader breakfast cafe and hope you will join me in early Feb for the next one! You can listen back to the first six in the series here.

Have a great Wednesday!

Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats
Authorized Everything DiSC partner and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
Email: info(at) potentialsrealized (dot) com
(416)996-8326

TEams365 #313: November Team Leader Breakfast Cafe - Year End Retreats and Meetings

11/9/2014

The first Wednesday of every month I host a short call for team leaders called the Team Leader Breakfast Cafe. It is a short 15-20 minute call which focuses in on key topics in support of your work as a team leader. In August I looked at Team Culture, September Strengths, and last month at the Six Factors for High Performing Teams. You can access the calls here.

as we move into the month of November, one of the key activities facing team leaders is organizing that year end meeting, luncheon or retreat. This month's breakfast cafe gets you to consider what the purpose is for your year end process, and also explores key elements you will want to include. I also share two quick activities you may want to consider incorporating for your retreat process.

Retreat facilitation is part of our focus and support for team leaders. We would be pleased to partner with you to design a customized program for your team, department or organization. We can also design certain components which you can facilitate yourself. Contact me to discuss your needs for your next team building or retreat process.

As you consider your team's needs for year end meetings, what is a priority? What do you want them to take out of the experience?

Have a great start to your week,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized
Leadership, Teamwork and Coaching
2015 Program Dates for the Teams 365 Coaching Groups and Team Leader Foundations program coming soon.
Join us in a few weeks for the Virtual Facilitation Skills Intensive online program - November 25-26, 2014 OR the two day in person Facilitation Skills Intensive program in downtown Toronto December 15-16.

#Teams365 #286:October Team LEader Breakfast Cafe - 6 Factors of High Performing Teams

10/13/2014

Each month I hold a call the Team Leaders Breakfast Cafe, usually the first Wednesday of each month at 715 am ET. It is a short call on a topic related to successful team leadership.

This month the call was What makes a team high-performing. We explored the six factors of a high performing team. This has been a long-standing theme here at the blog as you probably have seen in past blog posts.

In case you missed it, you can listen back to it here. It is a short 15 minute call.

As you listen consider how your team is doing. What areas could they benefit from some attention around?

Jennifer Britton, MES, CPT, PCC
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Teams365 Blog
(416)996-8326

View our 12 minute presentation on the upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Foundations online training, and Coaching Groups starting this fall. Our next Coaching Group starts Tuesday October 14 at 5:45 pm Eastern by phone, and the Teams365 Team Leadership Foundations Modules will be running this fall on Fridays from 7:15 - 8:15 am Eastern.

Teams365 #257: Team Leadership Breakfast Cafe

9/14/2014

Every month I host a 15-30 minute call for leaders called the Team Leader Breakfast Cafe. It's usually held on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:15 am ET. We take a quick look at topics relevant to team leaders. In August we looked at team culture. This past week we looked at strengths.
If you missed the calls you can listen back to them at http://www.coachingteamleaders.com/team-leader-breakfast-series.html .

The Breakfast Cafe will give you a taste of some of the topics we cover in the Teams 365 Team Leadership Foundations modules (online learning sessions) as well as the more extended Teams365 Coaching Groups (4-6 month coaching groups for new, aspiring and experienced leaders)

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Teams365 Blog
(416)996-8326

View our 12 minute presentation on the upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Foundations online training, and Coaching Groups starting this fall. Our next Coaching Group starts Tuesday September 23rd at 5:45 pm Eastern by phone, and the Teams365 Team Leadership Foundations Module starts on Fridays at 12 noon ET on September 26th. Calls will be held on September 26, October 3, 10 and 17.

Teams365 #251: Teams365 Cartoon #11: Virtual Leadership

9/8/2014

This week I am pleased to introduce our latest Teams365 cartoon, and weekly series, on virtual leadership. As many of you would have read, a large part of my career involved virtual leadership, in days before the term was even common-place.

Over the next week or two we will be exploring a number of virtual team leadership tips and ideas. Many of these I cover more in-depth in the Teams365 Virtual Team Leadership Foundations program (click here to learn more).

Have a great start to the week, and remember that I will be hosting this month's Teams365 Team Leader Breakfast Call this Wednesday at 7:15 am Eastern/New York. Topic this month is team strengths. Link to our August call here, as well as gather dial in info for Wednesday's call.

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Join us for an upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Coaching Group
OR The next cohort of the Team365 Leader Foundations program which starts September 11
(416)996-8326

Schedule a 15 minute phone conversation about our fall programs here

#Teams365 #236: The Inaugural Team Leader Breakfast Series Call on Team Culture

8/25/2014

Earlier this month I hosted the first Teams365 Team Leader Breakfast call, a monthly call I am hosting for new, aspiring and experienced team leaders. It's a short 30 minute calls which is part training (which is recorded) and part coaching (not recorded).

Our inaugural August call was on Culture, one of this month's themes here at the Teams365 blog. You can listen into this 21 minute recording here.

Please mark your calendar for the next call which will take place on Wednesday September 10th at 7:15 am Eastern/New York. This 30 minute call will be held at 1-857-232-0155, access 503003. No cost to attend other than your own long distance charges (it is a US based bridgeline). Can't make it? I will record it and post it at the new Team Leader Breakfast Series page shortly thereafter.

This is a taste of some of the topics we will be delving into this fall in the new cohort of the Teams365 Team Leader Foundations program , an eight month leadership development online program, and the Teams365 Team Leader Coaching Group. Both of these programs start during the week of September 10th.

Want to learn more about the programs and how it may benefit you and your leadership? Schedule a 15 minute call with me in the coming weeks to discuss.

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized - Leadership | Teamwork | Coaching Skills Training for Leaders
Supporting Team Leaders One Conversation at a Time(TM)
Author of From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Join us for an upcoming Teams365 Team Leader Coaching Group on Friday September12
OR The start of the next Team365 Leader Foundations Cohort on September 11
(416)996-8326