Practical insights for HR and talent leaders on leadership development, hiring, assessments, coaching, workplace culture, team effectiveness, and talent strategy.
Why the difference between teams, work groups, and departments matters for leadership, collaboration, accountability, organizational and team effectiveness. Have We Overused the Word “Team”? Ask almost any organizational leader about their team, and they will likely describe the people who report to them. Human Resources departments refer to employees as team members. Supervisors are encouraged to build strong teams. Executives talk about their leadership teams. Organizations
Organizational change often struggles long before the announcement, training session, launch date, or implementation plan. It begins to struggle when leaders assume others see the same urgency they do. It begins to struggle when executives make decisions without enough insight from the people closest to the work. It begins to struggle when frontline leaders are expected to champion a change they do not understand, do not support, or are not equipped to lead. Change rarely fai
