In the next few weeks, we will introduce and discuss the challenges surrounding teams and explain how best to approach the subject in order to get the best response from each member. Agreement of a Process in Building Teams Any team building exercise should be conducted in the light of the foregoing observations. When building

Last week, we discussed the process needed in order to create successful teams. In this week’s blog, we investigate what makes a team ‘tick’ and function effectively. At Schuitema Group, the work done on teams is based on the premise that one can account for the success of any group of people on the degree to

It stands to reason that one should give attention to what one has power over, and that one would tend to disable oneself if you gave attention to things that you do not have power over. Strangely, this obvious and basic insight does not only seem to be lost on many executives, but we deliberately

I have consistently argued that in the course of establishing a legitimate relationship based on care and growth of the subordinate, the leader must continuously review the level of control in the relationship. The degree of control in a relationship must be appropriate to the maturity of a subordinate (a contention which is at the

A successful team is a teams that can elicit the intent to contribute from each of the individual members of the team. A contribution-focused team is a successful team. A contribution-focused team has team members who are willing to go the extra mile in pursuit of the team’s objective. Successful Team: The Benevolent Intent One of the

My previous post on the blog was solicited by a particularly depressing series of events at a client site where it had become apparent that a newly appointed senior executive was about to trash all the hard organisational development work that had been done by the executive of the business over many years. On reflection,