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The Future Is Uncertain. Here_s How to Ensure Your Team Can Adapt

The Future Is Uncertain. Here’s How to Ensure Your Team Can Adapt.

Remember March 2020, when most of us expected it might be in two or three months? Then summer gave way to fall and winter. Some set their sights on returning mid-2021. That thought is now a distant memory. As the global pandemic begins its third year, it’s high time to recognize we’re never going back...

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Don't Be Resigned to Employee Turnover. Do These 5 Things Instead

Don’t Be Resigned to Employee Turnover. Do These 5 Things Instead

During a recent call with a group of presidents from some of the world’s largest companies, the number-one issue keeping them awake at night was attracting and retaining great talent. It’s an issue that companies of every size have been grappling with since the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted first our lives and then the labor market. The executives were...

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The right way to push back if you don’t want to return to the office

The right way to push back if you don’t want to return to the office

Back to work? This sounds like the obvious end goal we’ve all been waiting for after roughly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. But wait a minute. Does this make sense? Remote work went from being an awkward crisis workaround to a routine with its own rhythm and plenty of upsides. It turned out that increased...

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How CIOs (Or Any C-Suite Role) Can Lead Enterprise Business Transformation And Coach Their Peers In The New World Of Work

How CIOs (Or Any C-Suite Role) Can Lead Enterprise Business Transformation And Coach Their Peers In The New World Of Work

Every organization was transforming into a technology business even before the pandemic ushered in a new era of remote and hybrid working. Digital technologies were radically rebooting relationships with customers and reconfiguring internal operations. As a result, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has evolved from running a support service to becoming the...

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Remote Meetings: The New Work Rules For High-Performing Teams In The Remote Work World

Remote Meetings: The New Work Rules For High-Performing Teams In The Remote Work World

To transform team collaboration you need a new set of practices that fit the virtual environment rather than port tired old methods into remote meetings. Wrong-headed research says remote work does not work based on companies who were doing it wrong.  With Verizon, Dell Technologies and Harvard Business School, we are going to give you...

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Want Faster, Bolder Collaboration? Stop Meeting.

Want Faster, Bolder Collaboration? Stop Meeting.

Our massive post pandemic research project proved that highly inclusive collaboration combined with faster decision making was not only possible, but necessary to create bold innovation. Sadly, we also found that most leaders assume those two objectives are at odds. The traditional sentiment is that more people means more meetings, and more meetings means slower...

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How to Use Collaborative Problem-Solving to Get to the Right Answers--Quickly

How to Use Collaborative Problem-Solving to Get to the Right Answers–Quickly

Faced with a tough decision that needs to be made quickly, most leaders’ command-and- control instincts kick in. They are often wrong. In a world changing at an extraordinary pace, expecting a leader under pressure to make the call alone is to overlook the talent in the team. The better answer is quick-fire collaboration. Today’s economy demands that...

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How To Make Your Virtual Offsite Better Than The Real Thing

How To Make Your Virtual Offsite Better Than The Real Thing

When I was the chief marketing officer at Deloitte & Touche, we would have our annual leadership off-site in Las Vegas or Orlando. I remember people practicing their presentations far into the night, and the next day we’d sit for hours in uncomfortable chairs in a huge hotel ballroom, listening to speaker after speaker talk...

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Wrongheaded thinking about remote work and how teams can optimize for hybrid

Wrongheaded thinking about remote work and how teams can optimize for hybrid

As we move into this new paradigm of business post-pandemic, the hybrid workforce—where some team members work remote and some from the office—is our new reality. Yet today’s thinking about remote work is full of wrongheadedness and failed use cases rather than best practice. Many business leaders are still locked into thinking that the best...

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Courageous Speech Is a Key Block in the Innovation Stack of a High-Return Team

Courageous Speech Is a Key Block in the Innovation Stack of a High-Return Team

During the pandemic, the crisis gave most workplaces much-needed jolts of urgency to reboot outdated management systems. One brilliant outcome we saw emerge were leaders and teams that began collaborating more intensively. Teammates spoke with greater transparency and authenticity, because frankly, there was no time to waste when it came to innovative solutions. In our...

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Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching

Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching

One of the unintended consequences of the constant right-sizing and flattening of our organizations is that we now live in a world where managers just don’t have time to do all that’s required of them in their daily jobs, let alone find time for coaching their employees. Yet coaching is a critical job for any...

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Make Moneyball Changes in Days Instead of Seasons

Make Moneyball Changes in Days Instead of Seasons

My research team and I have had a couple of interesting conversations with Colin Kinsella, CEO of Mindshare Interactive. How did Colin end the feet-dragging that had stalled the change he was brought on board to finish? Not by telling the team what leadership wanted them to achieve, but by changing how the team did...

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Six Useful Lessons (and Reminders) from my Recent Marketing Debacle

Six Useful Lessons (and Reminders) from my Recent Marketing Debacle

A few weeks ago I was speaking at an event and two fans of our work shared their personal concern, and I could tell disappointment, due to a series of marketing emails that were sent in the run up to the launch of the Relationship Masters Academy. One lady said that Who’s Got Your Back...

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