The Value of Teamwork

Can you put a price on the value of good teamwork?     What value does a team performing well have? Let’s consider what happens when a team underperforms…  What do we mean by this?  Perhaps the team doesn’t follow a process, perhaps there are internal struggles between personnel – bickering, one up Manship, trust […]

Difficult Conversations and Big Girl Pants

Do you every have those days/weeks where you have to have difficult conversations with people?  It made me consider – what is a difficult conversation? I feel that different people will have different definitions of what constitutes a tricky conversation.  For example, I am very task driven by nature.  I want to get the job […]

Management Training – A lightbulb moment

I have a story to share from one of my management training sessions… let me know when you are sitting comfortably, I will begin… The other day I was coaching a lovely Manager who has some issues with the way he works with some staff members.  There were different reasons why particular people were difficult […]