My favorite dish is pizza. While munching on a crunchy pizza slice last week, I started thinking. Let’s take a look at the ingredients of two popular, yet very different pizzas: the classic Italian-style Pizza Margherita and the rich, non-Italian-style Supreme Pizza. Pizza Margherita Ingredients Supreme Pizza Ingredients Pizza dough Pizza dough Tomato […]
High-performance teams
While watching archery at the Olympics, I noticed something fascinating about the power of an arrow. Its ability to penetrate a target comes down to four key factors: To increase an arrow’s penetration power, you can: Now, consider how these […]
Success is often achieved by simply avoiding mistakes. There are five big mistakes if you want to build a high-performance culture in your team or organization.
Recently, I was on the phone with a customer service representative to get a refund. To my frustration, he needed to ask his team leader for permission. This was a clear example of low performance due to lack of empowerment. […]
In the past decade I have facilitated workshops with hundreds of groups, ranging from three to three thousand people. These are some of the best facilitation practices I use to make most out of these sessions: 1/ Start with discussing with the group […]
Last week I gave a keynote about high-performance leadership in a virtual setting. While preparing the talk I realized that the virtual space increases focus, yet sacrifices context. Think of reading an email-a virtual communication-which is textually clear, but is still confusing […]
If you want to effectively run virtual teams, it’s important to get the basics of high-performance teams right. Focus on the following elements: On a scale of 1-10, how well are you doing on each of these elements?
Ten ideas to make your next virtual team meeting effective, energetic, and inclusive.
A recurring corporate frustration is the quality and quantity of meetings. Meetings can be the ultimate performance drag, or a powerful tool to drive high performance. If you want the latter, I have found three best practices to religiously adhere […]
One of the most important decisions as a leader is to create a success environment in your organization: This is a place where team members can bring their best, and feel safe to do what it takes to make an impactful and […]
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