If you and your team are like most teams out there you have been running at full speed all year doing your best to tackle challenges that come your way and meet your team and organizational goals. Whatever your goals for 2017, your team can’t reach them if it is running on empty. When we…
We’ve all experienced it. The high of a great teambuilding event where you leave feeling energized and convinced that, finally, your team has the knowledge and motivation needed to address and let go of team issues and to take accountability for performing at a higher level. You are sure that from this point on things…
“I don’t know how to coach or mentor” is a phrase I commonly hear from leaders I work with. As you can probably attest to, many leaders are now required to incorporate coaching and mentoring into their daily work, and it is a responsibility that many understandably shy away from due to assumptions about what…
We at Kinect believe that those leaders who really succeed not only assemble talented teams, they motivate them. A team that’s stocked with talented and motivated people is hard to beat. It’s been said that success has many parents while failure is an orphan. If that’s true, it means that having a good team is integral…
Getting people to work together isn’t easy, and unfortunately many leaders skip over the basics of team building in a rush to start achieving goals. But your actions in the first few weeks and months can have a major impact on whether your team ultimately delivers results. What steps should you take to set your…
When your team’s energy level is low it not only affects productivity but also members’ ability to think innovatively and carry new ideas forward. Allowing energy to drain is very costly Several things can affect energy but a major one that we commonly see is team members giving too much attention to things over which…
I am always in search of stories of exceptional leaders and the practices that make them special. I’m referring to everyday leaders, not the ones that get the headlines and write the books. Some of them come, I confess, from eavesdropping as did the one I discovered at a reception. It was during a harsh…
Imagine trying to win the Grand Prix with less than a fine tuned engine. And yet that is not unlike what many leaders do every day. In fact, they often try to be the first to the finish line with an engine that sputters. Henry Ford was someone who knew engines and realized that he not…
Essential Leadership Practices If morale is low, if there is conflict within the team, if team members are having difficulty communicating, or if you find the team isn’t quite ‘gelling’, it is often because the team has not taken time to explore the behaviours and practices essential to the team’s performance, and just as importantly,…
Kinect Founder and well-known author Leslie Bendaly was recently interviewed by The HR Gazette magazine on here career journey, new book and her thoughts on how to create better, more cohesive teams. Here’s the scoop: Leslie Bendaly is one of Canada’s most respected thinkers and practitioners in areas of organizational leadership, teamwork and change. Leslie’s books…
