By Jaimy Ford, business writer and editor As a new leader, it’s easy to slip into a routine and stick to it. After all, why should you change what appears to be working? However, if you simply adapt a previous leader’s style or you rely on trusted approaches that come easy to you, you run the risk of slipping into

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Perhaps my favorite food is homemade pie (black raspberry or peach, to be specific). I come by this naturally, as my Dad used to famously say, “I only like two kinds of pie; hot and cold.” While I can’t quite say that, there is little doubt how much I love pie. And I’ve had lots

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If you lead a team, at some point you have likely wondered what you could to help the team grow closer and more cohesive. If you are a leader and have never thought about that, you probably won’t keep reading, but you likely need what follows the most! “Team building” isn’t the holy grail of

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Here are four tips to help unify your team – whether they’ve worked together for years or not! Tweet This: Building team unity starts with you defining the unifying principles and behaviors you desire. In the Bud to Boss workshop, we address motivating and leading your team to higher performance. We address how to increase

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Chances are you have heard the phrase “groupthink.” If so, you have a justifiably negative feeling about the idea. Chances are probably even better that you haven’t heard the phrase “teamthink.” That is the point of this article.A DefinitionThe word and idea of groupthink was popularized in the early 1970’s based on a book by Yale

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Charlie Brown. He is one of the best-known fictional characters of the last 75 years (though he first appeared in a different strip earlier, the first Peanuts Strip was published October 2, 1950). He is known by many as a lovable loser, has been often bullied, and called names (“You Blockhead, Charlie Brown!”). Charles Schultz,

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Trust is something we’d all like more of. We’d like to be able to trust more people more. And we’d all like more people to trust us more too. These are universally true statements, even for those who have lots of trusting relationships. But it only considers part of what trust even means. I am talking

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You want an intelligent team, right? Here are five ways to help you build one! [Tweet “If you want a more intelligent team, allow more people the time and space to share their perspectives.”] Listen to the audio-only version of this episode. Learn more about the Remarkable Leadership Workshop.

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