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Leadership and Greed - Click To Read Article
Greed. Some call it an ugly green monster. And, it seems to be a topic we are hearing a lot about in the US news today.
This article defines greed and differentiates between individualistic and collaborative work cultures and practices. It also gives you criteria for discerning leadership greed in your organization.
EMPATHY – CAN YOU WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES? - Click To Read Article
Emapthy as a collaborative team value is necesaary for team conflict resolution. Yet work teams report that team conflict is one of the largest problems facing teams today.
This article explores the collaborative team core value, empathy, and behaviors that both build and negatively effect empathy in the work place.
Trust: Walking the Talk - Click To Read Article
If attracting and keeping talented and qualified employees is a goal, how your organization exhibits trust and trustworthy behavior is critical. As a team core value, trust in self, team members, leaders and the organization is difficult to acquire, and if abused, harder to salvage. Learn what behaviors build trust and what behaviors predictably damage trust and all
important relationships.
Risk: Making the leap - Click To Read Article
As a collaborative team value, the ability to take calculated and well-reasoned risks is a foundation for building an effective organization with the capacity to learn about itself, to expand and grow.
When fear is present, however, growth and forward momentum stagnate. This article looks at organizational behaviors and practices that both encourage and discourage an employee's willingness to take appropriate and well-reasoned risk.
Risk is the fifth of six values that build collaboration in groups. Without risk being t6olerated at the cultural level, many organizations penalize people for thinking.
A Leaders Coping Strategy: A Holistic Approach To Burnout That Can Dramatically Decrease Physical And Mental Stress Symptoms With In 30 Days - Click To Read Article
In our last post, we discussed how to differentiate between stress and burnout. In this article, we look at physical and mental coping strategies that can reduce how leaders experience stress within 30 days.
Genuineness: Can You Bring Problems To Light? - Click To Read Article
Genuineness as a cultural core value allows you to know when something is not right.
Genuineness is required in critical thinking and the process of evaluation in order to make improvements.
This article explores behaviors that build genuineness in the work place and the cultural behaviors needed to bring problems to light. In most competitive cultures, when there is a problem – the person who recognizes it is often exploited and through competition is made the loser.
Genuineness is the third of six collaborative core values that build highly effective teams. The other values are trust, interdependence, empathy, risk and success – TIGERS.
It’s not only what you say that counts, it’s what you do. - Click To Read Article
Your business core values announce to the world what you stand for and what is important to your daily operations. They form the soul of your team and by inclusion or omission are seen daily in how your employees treat one another and your customers. This article is the first in a series to explore six collaborative core values and gives you three ways to start benefiting from your values today.
Being Genuine Why Conflict and Confrontation Is Good During Uncertain Times - Click To Read Article
Genuineness is a learned behavior and skill each person brings to the team. The good news is that being genuine can also lead to conflict and confrontation which are important for organizations in uncertain times. This article reviews the value of confrontation to growing and thriving organizations and offers six ways to instill genuineness into the workforce.
As a leader, are you a candidate for burnout? - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs and Solopreneurs risk tipping the balance from stressful work and life practices to burnout. This article looks at how to discern the difference between stress and burnout.
Leading Like TIGERS: A Model For Teamwork - Click To Read Article
Teamwork thrives in a collaborative culture and tends to have problems in individualistic and internally competitive cultures. This article discusses a collaborative value system that supports an organizations vision, mission and core values through teamwork and the concept, "If we in, I win."
Competition VS Interdependence - Click To Read Article
Competition is essential for business success. At the same time, internal competition damages your group intelligence, retards your growth and disrupts team morale. In this article, we explore what interdependent processes and leadership practices can do for your team.
Five Tips For Building A Wildly Successful Team Based Business - Click To Read Article
Learn about five simple steps entrepreneurs and small business owners can take to increase their business volume and employee satisfaction.
What You Need To Know Before You Join A Community Problem Solving Effort - Click To Read Article
As a business owner, one way to build community awareness and loyalty to your company is to volunteer on an important community project. Beware. Some of these projects can dissolve into conflict and confusion. Here is what you need to know to make sure that doesn't happen.
For Entrepreneurs And Small Business Owners: How To Avoid Six Big Business Expansion Mistakes - Click To Read Article
The number of entrepreneurs, family owned businesses and small business enterprises are growing in both Canada and the United States. This article gives you six funding and growth mistakes to avoid whether you are building, selling or passing ownership to the next generation.
Success: The Collaborative Win - Click To Read Article
For some people, success is everything. Winning at all costs is the name of the game.
Collateral damage is calculated. If someone is hurt in the process it’s unfortunate, but that’s the way it is. You will hear leaders say things like, “You are either with me or against me.” There is no middle ground. Some people call these leaders good business people. Others call them short sighted.
Loyal followers abandon ship when it is clear the collateral damage includes them or when their personal values and integrity collide with business practices as usual. Is there a better way?
This article looks at success from a collaborative perspective where winning strikes an effective balance between how work is done and the people who acieve it.
Team Interdependence When We Win I Win - Click To Read Article
Team Interdependence is the second of six collaborate core values that build highly effective teams. The other five are trust, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The six collaborative values form the acronym, TIGERS.
Team Interdependence is based on the concept: If we win - I win. This article delves into behaviors that build team interdependence and discusess behaviors that predictably disrupt interdependence in any group of two or more people who have come together to achieve something of value.
What Leaders, Facilitators and Coaches Have In Common - Click To Read Article
A facilitative or coaching leadership style is handy for the small business owner as well as a team leader. This article discusses facilitative leadership and how it serves both the leader and the organization.
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Born in Poland and educated in Greece and Canada, he is trilingual with 8 years experience in business development with clients in Canada, USA, Switzerland and Poland.
His approach is systematic and process-driven. He fuses the know-how of proven business methods with his commitment that entrepreneurs experience satisfaction and joy based on their values, motivations and strengths. He believes that businesses succeed based on their ability to generate value by providing what’s needed and wanted.
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