Tag: employee motivation
How To Give Feedback Like A Fighter Pilot (Develops Others)
Feedforward is a unique approach to giving feedback that improves performance, boosts productivity, and keeps teams on track. Unlike traditional feedback, feedforward is timely, continuous,...
Decisions: Fewer is Better (Communication)
From time to time, it's our job as managers to deliver eye-opening feedback to our team. To be fully effective, we need to be...
Critical To Your Team’s Culture: Equal Air Time
In researching what makes successful teams, Google’s “Project Aristotle” found psychological safety was key. A group norm that supports psychological safety is “equality in...
Is Your Team The Right Size? (Builds Teams)
We like to claim that some institutions are “too big to fail.” Can the same be said of teams?
Turns out that bigger isn’t always...
3 Ways To Build Trust On Your Team (Builds Teams)
On their way to winning their first World Series in more than a century, the Chicago Cubs did something unusual: They changed the shape...
Golden Handcuffs Are Still Handcuffs
With the unemployment rate so low these days – here in Denver we’re down to 2.7% – organizations are getting nervous about losing their...
Pixar’s Secret For Giving Feedback (Communication)
Pixar is one of the most successful movie studios in Hollywood. Over the years, it has collected more than twenty Academy Awards for hits...
Better Communication: Just Three
When in doubt of how many, lean on three. Why? Simple–three is doable, memorable and meaningful. More than three and overwhelm and numbing follow. ...
How The Warriors Built A Championship Culture (Builds Teams)
How did the Golden State Warriors build a championship culture?
They ate a lot of cake.
In what has become a Warriors tradition, players receive custom-designed cakes...
