This is the time of year that many of my client leadership teams meet for annual planning. It’s two full days out of the office. As a big part of the first day, we focus on team health – leveraging Patrick Lencioni’s amazing work in The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. The objective is to improve the health of …
In the EOS Process™, we often use the Kolbe A™ Index with leadership teams to identify each leader’s natural instinctual strengths. When these strengths differ from one another, we can identify sources of natural conflict among the team. There have been dozens of times when I reminded a team about their Kolbe profiles, and it helped them to view conflict …
I have a client with two brothers on the leadership team, who disagreed about how to handle employee-challenge situations. The company has three locations with multiple shifts. Frustrations among midlevel managers were brewing when one of the leaders came across as harsh and cold over something that others considered to be a small issue. The trouble was that the …