Archive for December 2015
Navigating Dangerous Waters at Work to Achieve Success
Navigating dangerous waters at work to achieve success could be the title of my autobiography. I don’t know if it is because I’m hyper aware of the emotions of others or overly sensitive, but I wasted too much energy in non-productive emotional states over my 25-year corporate career. The non-productive emotional state was typically the…
Read More005- Secrets to Enabling Collaboration in Your Team
In this episode, I describe a diagnostic tool called Team Collaboration Assessment. The tool provides a roadmap for a team to journey from where they are towards the high performance that is possible through effective collaboration. I conclude the episode describing the nine principles of collaboration and leading high-performance teamwork. == Subscribe to the Quadrant…
Read More004 – How Facilitation Stops Groups from Preventing Innovation and Change
In this episode, Bill Shephard, creative problem solving expert and professional facilitator for the Creative Problem Solving Group, talks about the role of facilitation in moving groups and organizations towards novelty and change. Facilitation provides the process leadership needed for groups to overcome the natural forces that hamper organizations from moving towards innovation and change.…
Read MoreFacilitation Perception to End the Misconception
Facilitation perception to end the misconception explores why misconception about what facilitation is persists from the perspective of a professional facilitator. This blog post was inspired by the Science of Success podcast show featuring an interview with Bill Shephard, creative problem solving expert and professional facilitator for the Creative Problem Solving Group (see science-of-success-podcast on…
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