Hugh McGill is an Operations Consultant/Coach, with a passion for and significant experience in molding organizational cultures which bring out the potential of all members of the business and engage employees in personal growth and learning. In the following, Hugh explains his experience in the success of a company going from a more traditional siloed kind [...]
Dr. Donna Hicks is an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard and she has been involved in numerous diplomatic conflict resolution efforts around the world including projects in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, and Northern Ireland. She is currently the vice president of Ara Pacis, an Italian organization sponsored [...]
The following is an excerpt of an interview with executive educator, consultant, and international speaker Marlene Chism. She is also the author of Stop Workplace Drama and No-Drama Leadership. She provides us with some great knowledge on her expertise of workplace drama. The biggest barrier that we as individuals or as leaders can encounter is the [...]
The following is an excerpt of an interview with organizational and communication strategist Laura Crandall. Here is what she has to say about slowing down to allow cultures of innovation to emerge and the pressure organizations feel to be in continuous innovation. Leaders and organizations often feel: We have to innovate, we must be [...]
A health care company with executive leaders located in different states throughout the United States needed better ways to lead their company as a cohesive team. Individuals expressed they working too much without enough time to lead as proactively as they needed to and to collaborate successfully as a team. Because they worked remotely and supervised [...]
A manager of a sales team was frustrated spending time addressing team conflict. The sales team wasn’t getting along well, there was unresolved infighting, and conflict was hindering communication and stalling sales numbers. The team members had unintentionally developed a culture that was getting in the way of people performing at their best. In this case, [...]
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." --Andrew Carnegie
