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Lencioni Live on Conflict
I had the good fortune of seeing Patrick Lencioni speak. Patrick Lencioni, the Five Dysfunctions author, was an entertaining, honestly simple and engaging speaker. You may recall our article last year, where we summarised some of Patrick’s thoughts on healthy conflict. When he spoke about conflict today, he pressed his …
How do we achieve collaboration?
Disagreement and conflict are the vital ingredients to collaboration. We need to create an environment in our workplaces where we have thinking partners who are not echo chambers. Where conflict can occur and great creative solutions are the output. This takes inspiration from Margaret Heffernan’s wonderful TED talk, Dare to …
To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate…Is there really a question?
As market demands shift, organisations are ever-changing. The idea of ‘team’ is not just in the traditional term of a group of people who are all physically in the same location, reporting to the same manager, working to the same timeframes for similar goals. Today, the idea of ‘team’ can also …
What does it take to build a healthy organisation?
Patrick Lencioni, renowned author of 5 Team Dysfunctions, recently gave an interesting webinar on something that speaks to our credo. He addressed his 20 years of experience with Healthy Organisations, which are effectively high performance-facilitating cultures. The clincher for us though was his reinforcement that Healthy Conflict is an underpinning ingredient in …
Can bystanders stop bullying?
The short answer is yes! Research has found that when a person is prepared to advocate for the target of the bullying and take a stand on their behalf, the bullying behaviour decreases or in fact ends. Witnesses or bystanders are the group with the most power to stop bullying, …
Flexible Work Practices…are they a reality? What does the research say?
Many organisations are adopting more flexible workplace policies to address work-life balance. This makes sense. Research has shown that organisations who embrace flexibility seek to do so because of the positive correlation with productivity, employee health/wellbeing and retention. It is also what the employment market demands. Results from a survey …