March 2005 Edition www.TeamBuildersPlus.com
         

Heroic Leaders Don't Always
Save the Day

by Merrick Rosenberg

When we picture the Heroic Leader, we see a manager putting on the cape to save the team from impending doom. They put on their cape and...

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Maintaining Team Motivatioin
by Sang H. Kim

Any group striving towards a common goal works best when motivated as a team. Team spirit, camaraderie, goal setting and...

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Facilitating True Team Effort
b
Ira Smolowitz PhD

You may have seen the motivational poster exhorting people to pull together to accomplish a common task on behalf of their organization. Highlighting the poster is...

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Profile of the Month:
Team Dimensions Profile®
In The Wisdom of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith wrote that a high performance team “significantly outperforms all reasonable expectations given its membership.” They added... 
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Recommended Reading:
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for...

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Upcoming events:
 
Unleash the Power of 360-Degree Feedback
March 11, 2005
 
 
Learn how to implement a powerful and positive 360 process to get results.
 
   
     
 
Next Generation Leadership
April 8, 2005
 
 
Discover how organizations need to redine leadership in today's changing environment.
 
   
     

By the numbers:
 
In a 2004 study, 54% of executives expect to work for seven or more employers during their career. That percentage increased six-fold over the last ten years.
- Association of Executive Search Consultants
 
     
 
Words of Wisdom:
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach
 
   
 
   
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