Team Journey: Steps from people to real team results!

I sat down with LUCRUM’s Eric Duell a couple of years ago and talked about the value of teams. Eric is a principal consultant and specializes in executive alignment sessions – but is the guru of communications. The truth of our conversation has never left me. He tied together results of a team through proper [...]

Part 2, Collaboration “It’s not about technology” – expanded! (Statement 2)

If collaboration was about the technology, then…
 
We would be focusing on how to support collaboration’s needs, when collaboration was meant to support our needs.  Our organization ends up working for the ‘collaboration implementation’, when in fact the implementation’s entire existence was meant to work for the organization. It is completely upside-down. We have all felt [...]

Part 2, Collaboration Value Alignment – expanded! (Statement 6)

“Ready, Fire, Aim!” is all too often the norm. Yes, we were ready and yes we fired, but without aim, what are we hitting? Activity does in fact breed productivity, but we need to be focused.
Statement 6, “Collaboration Value Alignment!”, Make sure that you revisit with the sponsor(s) often to ensure that the value they [...]