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…
“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…
In the late 80’s, Peter Drucker predicted that in the near future technology would play a central role in increasing the effectiveness of teams. Although he was right, teams have yet to experience the full benefits of technology. Yes, there is a great deal of talk about virtual teams and collaborative tools, but our ability…
The majority of today’s leaders understand that the best teams leverage all forms of diversity to achieve long-term success. The trouble is that diversity comes in.. lots of forms! Diversity at work is way more than just considerations of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age or rank. Considerations of workplace diversity should also account for those…
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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…
This month Kinect’s President, Nicole Bendaly, and Founder, Leslie Bendaly, were special guests on the popular Toronto based radio show Career Buzz with host Mark Franklin. The interview with the mother-daughter team looked at their career history plus discussed how and why Leslie launched the team performance company. Host Mark Franklin led a very interesting chat which…
Broken windows is a theory in criminology that suggests that if you let little things go they become bigger ones. The theory is based on the observation that the existence of broken windows in a neighbourhood frequently is found in association with other signs of general social fragmentation and disorder, such as property neglect, disrepair,…
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,…
