Learning Center

Six Principles That Enhance Team Collaboration

Team collaboration is the heartbeat of a thriving workplace. It’s what turns loosely connected employees into high-performing teams. But true collaboration doesn’t just happen because we put people in meetings or assign them to projects together. It emerges when leaders create a culture where trust, shared goals, and authentic relationships drive the way people work […]

The TIGERS 6 Principles Deliver Psychological Safety to High Performance Teams

High performance, cross-functional teams composed of employees from different departments have driven successful innovation and corporate problem-solving outcomes for organizations such as Zappos, Costco and Hewlett Packard. As diverse as these organization are, one thing they have in common is a system approach to how team members collaborate. They also share a conscious focus on […]

Employer Flexibility Increases Employee Satisfaction

A cohesive and collaborative team are important to organizational success. A new study discovered that employer flexibility regarding employee work/life balance is a determining factor in employee satisfaction. Also covered in the study is developing cohesive teams that understand the importance of personal accountability. Researchers from the study also found that spouses influence your employee’s […]

How Workforce Behavior Assessment and Training Save You Money

You suspect employee turnover is due to poor workforce behavior. Now what? The good news is that workforce behavior lies at the root cause of many “problems” that reduce your bottom line.  A strategic way to improve workforce behavior is through measurement and training. Why measuring workforce behavior matters. In 1987, I asked a question. […]

The Secret to High Performance Executive Teams

  According to recent McKinsey research, companies with diverse executive leadership exhibit better short and long term financial performance. Women in revenue-producing positions also correlate to higher revenue scores on high performance executive teams. Let’s get to the bottom line. There is a secret to high performance executive teams.  It’s not because everyone is a […]

Successful Group Problem Solving

The idea of group problem solving makes sense. If everyone helps and is committed to the outcome, you get more done in a shorter time frame. Working on your own, on the other hand, has limits. Diverse strengths, skills and complex decision making are limited by the skills, talent and perspective one person.  This is […]

Overcoming Bad Management

Sam said, “I can’t take this place anymore,” and he sent out his resume and nailed a great job.  Sam, like many workers in the US are changing companies now.  With the economic turnaround and leaders raising salaries, why are people changing jobs? The reason Sam provided was that he had no way of overcoming […]

Leaders are Sinking — Send in the TIGERS® 6 Principles™

Employee engagement is a real problem for companies worldwide. Recent research shows that only about 13 percent of employees worldwide are engaged in their positions and it points to the issue that leaders are sinking and it is time to send in the TIGERS 6 Principles. It’s all about engagement A lack of engagement isn’t […]