How to herd cats

How to herd cats

You’re scheduled for a meeting next week, and you receive the agenda in your email. You’re pleased to see that there is a designated facilitator for the meeting, but not so thrilled that it’s you. If your meetings are like mine, they can...
Performance or contribution?

Performance or contribution?

Do you refer to your own or others’ performance on the job? I read a comment posted by a member of the Organizational Development group on LinkedIn recently. It that said we should be using the term contribution instead of performance.I love this idea for a...
The best way to think great thoughts

The best way to think great thoughts

You have a problem to solve or a new idea to cook up. What do you do? Pile lots of people in a room and brainstorm, right?Wrong. It turns out that free association in a group uncovers predictable options, not innovative, creative ones. In the presence of others, we...
Feed your team

Feed your team

I am a card-carrying member of ASDT (Adult Survivors of a Dysfunctional Team). I am sure that it is just a coincidence (or the fact that I have been working for many, many years), but I’ve served on a few teams that were not productive.Dysfunctional teams do...