The ability of the team to distinguish between a task conflict and a relationship conflict is important for long term cohesion and success on tasks. Task-related conflicts and disagreements come up in all teams. When the conflict arises in the…
Effective Teams
Sustaining Effective and Efficient Teams in a Competitive Corporate World
The health of an organisation and its long-term standing is definitely influenced by the people who work in the organisation. It’s people who run the show and make decisions, not machines or computers and it is people who build client…
Facilitating Effectiveness in Teams
We hear of examples of excellent teamwork on a particular project and how well a team performed on a certain task, but as we all know, one-off performances don’t count for much in the corporate world. As they say, you…
The Unique Characteristics of an Effective Team
The concept of a team is today well entrenched and has been adopted in organisations globally as a better approach to managing business. The question is now, ‘How do we make our teams more effective?’ If an organisation wants to…
The Right Solution For An Ineffective Team
When there are obvious problems within a team, the output from the team naturally diminishes. Your team is a group of professionals put together because their expertise and experience were found to be suitable for a particular business task. If…
Negotiation Skills Training for a Team
Your team or department has an important negotiation coming up. So how does your team prepare? The sad reality is most business negotiators prepare a few minutes before the negotiation meeting. Most preparations are based on ‘what if they say’…