As I write this, the riders in the Tour de France cycling race are climbing the last big mountain of the race: Mont Ventoux. There has been a very interesting team dynamic within the Astana team. The team has two contenders for the overall race winner: Lance Armstrong, and Alberto Contador.
Posts Tagged ‘conflict-management’
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Team Tactics at the Tour de France
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The Must-Read Team- and Personal-Development Books for Summer
I’d like to share some of my favorite books from my bookshelf. These are some of the books that have influenced my thinking about building and managing teams, and allowing for the best possible learning within an organization.
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The Top 5 Reasons Why Smart Teams Fail
Over and over again, we see smart teams making the same mistakes. Now you can learn from our experience to maximize your team’s performance by avoiding the top five mistakes that cause teams to fail.
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Conflict Management: Using Team Mapping
In our last post, we analyzed Team Grid’s Team Map. This workshop team was very strong on the people-oriented roles: Resource Investigator, Coordinator, and Teamworker. Of course, this isn’t how the roles always fall amongst team members. Nine different team roles create an almost infinite number of possibilities for a team’s makeup.
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Analyzing Team Maps in Action!
Featured here is “Team Grid”, a workshop team from a 2-day workshop at the E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, California.
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Here's a Quick Way to Identify & Fix Team Problems
Use a Belbin team map as a quick and visual way to discover when you’re missing a team role (a team role void), or when you have too many of one team role.
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The Top 5 Ways Belbin Will Help Your Team Exceed Expectations
An understanding of Belbin Team Roles can improve your team’s performance in these key areas: managing conflict, focusing on results, working smarter not harder, communicating clearly and effectively and generating money-making ideas.