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Some time back, I ran across some powerful wisdom described in a podcast with Dr Richard Boyatzis hosted by Dr Krister Lowe at the Team...

<p>What gets measured gets managed.  This is an old saying management circles of course.  At its heart is the simple idea that effective management of an activity means paying more attention to the important things and that those important things will have an attached metric. In this way we can expect management activities in teams &hellip; <a href="https://teamsworking.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/what-gets-measured-gets-managed-but-what-are-we-really-managing/" class="more-link

<p>In business, a term often used is &#8220;putting out fires&#8221;. This will apply where the business is beset by one crisis after another and where extraordinary effort is required from the team to get a much-needed result. You know the drill, we come in to the office on the Sunday prior to the make or &hellip; <a href="https://teamsworking.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/putting-out-fires-seriously/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Putting ou

<p>Someone very clever posed this question to me recently. This was in response to my suggestion that possibly one of the most important events in the life of group based work is that moment when we individually become engaged with the goals that we share with others. While this may sound a little like the &hellip; <a href="https://teamsworking.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/can-i-be-a-team-of-1-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Can I be a team

<p>There is a view that the concept of teamwork is suggestive of the need to be &#8220;one of the group&#8221;. To be like-minded and instep with team members.  This view is reflected in the writings of many team scholars (Eg. Katzenbach and Smith, 1993) who espouse the importance of shared goals. The development of shared goals for &hellip; <a href="https://teamsworking.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/how-important-is-it-that-team-members-see-the-world-consistently/" class="more-li

<p>Teams are common structures within many organisations and are often central features of the deployment of resource to satisfy strategic need. However, simple descriptions of what constitutes a team based on size and qualities of the team members would do well to consider the highly nuanced organisational environment where the team is deployed. Interestingly, the &hellip; <a href="https://teamsworking.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/how-important-is-interdependence-to-team-success