Collaboration

Today’s reading, “The Power of Trust:  A Steel Cable”, comes to us from the Mindtools Newsletter.  The author is Bruna Martinuzzi, the founder and president of a Canadian consulting company that focuses on emotional intelligence, leadership, and presentation skills training. Martinuzzi got my attention when she said:  “Trust is largely an emotional act, based on an anticipation of […]

Well-integrated, high-performing teams, teams that “click,” is the subject of today’s Tuesday Reading – “How Leaders Get Their Teams To ‘Click’”  by Phil Harken.  Such teams never lose slight of their goals and are largely self-sustaining.  They often seem to take on a life of their own.  Studies by the European Centre for Organizational Research show that […]

It is very hard to get our work done without collaboration.  Sometimes those collaborators are on our team, sometimes in our organization, sometimes they are elsewhere in our university, and sometimes they are outside our university in suppliers, government agencies, etc.  When collaboration occurs things go well.  But sometimes it doesn’t;  our needed collaborators resist, […]

I’ve attached another very helpful note authored by John Baldoni about how leaders can be helpful, graciously.   I think that you will find the comments useful…………….jim ON LEADERSHIP COMMUNICATION Being Helpful — Graciously BY : John Baldoni 03/01/2005 Lessons in the management art that goes one step beyond. One of Franklin Roosevelt’s favorite things to do during […]