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How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations

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Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Best Practices of High Performing Virtual Teams (Video)

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Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. Looking For More Team Building Resources?

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Ten Common Mistakes New Managers Make

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In the meantime, poor performance or toxic behavior continues and becomes the norm. What to do: Address poor performance and disruptive behavior as soon as it happens. Additional reading: How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (this article describes a step-by-step methodology to do this well).

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How Managers (unintentionally) Roadblock an Empowered Team

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Unclear definition of success. Your success is how successfully your team performs, how they grow, and the quality of problems they solve. Unclear Definition of Success. The answer to this question almost always comes back to two things: unclear definitions of success and/or a lack of training. Be a chokepoint.

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Six Ways to Improve Business Communication Skills for Greater Success

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“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.” At a performance review meeting, Sean’s boss told him he needed to improve his communication skills. Here are the six ways to improve business communication skills.

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Managerial Courage: 7 Practical Ways to be a Bit More Daring

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They earned their reputation as a courageous manager one small daring moment at a time—small micro-moments of courage that led to better performance and deeper trust. Most definitions of managerial courage involve speaking with candor, being willing to act with incomplete information, timely decision making, and addressing performance issues.

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3 Ways Thinking Small Will Improve Employee Engagement

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Vision turns into secret plans for the inner circle, lawyers cautioning against transparency, building a diversity “strategy” that translates into babble and ratios, leaders turning to HR for employee engagement, and somewhere along the line, someone deciding it’s time to start “stack ranking” performance.

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