Building a Better Team

Working with difficult people, says the author, requires compassion and understanding. Citing seven difficult personality types, she suggests ways in which confrontations can be converted to win-win situations.

Get with the program

Ideally, your company should put in teams only those employees who are receptive to the idea, management experts say. But if your bosses have gone ga-ga for teams and you're cool to the concept, make the best of it for the sake of your career or find a company with a workplace hierarchy that suits you better.

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Embrace Diversity to Build Effective Teams

Turning a group into a team is one of the biggest challenges leaders face. We find ourselves leading groups of very diverse individuals in complex projects and tasks. We don't always get to hand pick our team, but rather we often inherit teams and all of their past baggage. Whatever the state of the group, we all need team skills. A recent report, "Office of the future: 2005", states that the following skills are essential for future career success: strong people skills, the ability to communicate effectively and the leadership to build teams.

A group becomes a team when you treat them like a high level, high profile project. You need to define your desired outcomes, set measurable goals, design your game plan with benchmarks and deadlines, and keep everyone focused.

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Meetings, Bloody Meetings

How do you keep your most talented employees, staff, board members, or association members focused and motivated in meetings, let alone motivating them to attend? The question has frustrated most of us.

Meetings consume ever greater amounts of time, money and energy. Think of the last meeting you attended. Was it the best use of everyone's time? Did you walk out with a sense of exhilaration and a clear set of actions and decisions? Or, did you wonder why you even bothered to attend?

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