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- The perfect work space
- As I write this blog, I am doing so from the comfort of my home office. Comfy chair, nice furniture, the appropriate lighting, and an ergonomic setup make it an ideal place for me to work. It's designed intentionally to be a quiet place where I can do solo work...
- Tags: Thin Client, Terminal Server, Teams, Team Management, Citrix
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- "There's no crying in baseball" (or the workplace)
- Remember when Tom Hanks' character in A League of Their Own said, "Crying?! There's no crying in baseball!"? He was playing a beleaguered coach of a women's baseball team who couldn't deal with one of the team member's emotional outbursts.The line was meant to be funny (in fact, one of...
- Tags: Success, Teams, toni bowers, Workplace
- Blog posts 2007-06-27
- Most managers die with their mouths open.
- I believe that the art of asking questions should be considered a fundamental skill for any leaders. Success without it will be short term at best.For a while it seemed that my premise was a given; however lately I seem to be running into more execs who are more concerned they will look...
- Tags: Performance, Workplace Strategy, Teams, Success, Reputation, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Company Culture, Coaching, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Increase your productivity. Take a nap!
- A colleague of mine tells me that most people today are sleep deprived. He's a life coach who focuses on how one's body reacts to stress and how that reaction, in turn, causes our performance to worsen.How can you tell if you're sleep deprived? Here are 3 common telltale signs which are pretty...
- Tags: Teams, Success, Staff, Performance, Morale, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, Employees, Coworkers, Coaching, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Are you ready for the praise-craving next generation?
- In order to get to the point of this blog I have to relate some tedious personal info. Bear with me. Basically, my husband thinks hes the center of the universe. This is due in large part to the fact that he was the youngest child with three much older...
- Tags: Toni Bowers, Teams, Team Management, Coddle, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Team Building exercises -- Are they too contrived to work?
- verywhere you look, you see articles and books that claim to have the secret of effective corporate team building. In fact, consultants have carved out an entire industry deveoted to the subject. Ive been on both sides of this issue -- Ive been on a team and Ive managed a...
- Tags: Co-workers, Teams, Job Satisfaction, Communication, Coaching, Career Development
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 7 levels of delegation
- Are you a micromanager? Or maybe one of those generalists whos so vague giving direction that your staff never know exactly what to do? Clients frequently ask if delegation is a style thing that can be learned. Or is it an art thing which is more intuitive;...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Women In It, Teams, Success, Power, Performance, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- What causes employee negativity?
- In 2003, global professional services firm Towers Perrin conducted a survey of some U.S. and Canadian companies that identified five elements that largely generate most of the current negativity among their workers. The five elements are:An excessive workload Concerns about management’s ability to lead the company successfully Anxiety about the...
- Tags: Workplace, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Morale, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Does anyone take notes in your meetings?
- Last week I led a management development program for a large TV broadcasting network. During the course of the discussion, we landed on the issue of meetings. Of course this is a subject that is discussed all the time. And most people have opinions about them in every...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Project Management, Power, Performance, Meetings, Management, Company Culture, Communication, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Should we trust people to manage their own job life?
- More and more companies are moving toward a work-scheduling system designed to allow individuals at all levels to determine what days, hours, even weeks they will be working on the job or at the office.All evidence points to this becoming the way of the future. Its been well established within...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, Teams, Success, Staffing, Staff, Reputation, Personnel, Personal Development, Performance, Office Politics, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Hiring, General, Employees, Discipline, Company Perks, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- Adventures of a coddled employee
- Most people would feel very lucky to work for an organization that is reluctant to fire anyone. And, admittedly, that attitude is better than an intolerant one in which employees arent nurtured to perform at their best. But there is a downside to keeping a person no matter what their...
- Tags: Workplace Strategies, toni bowers, Teams, publishing gal, Office Politics, Management, General, Firing, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-03-27
- Worst Boss Ever
- My clients come from a broad range of industries. But regardless of their specialty - tech, telecom, media, broadcasting, real estate, travel, performing arts, retail, banking, finance, whatever - almost all of them have stories about crappy bosses.Doesnt matter what level the individual is working at; I hear as...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Coaching, Job Satisfaction, leader, Leadership, Management, Meetings, Performance, Personal Development, Teams, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- One size fits all?
- A "one size fits all" approach in management style doesnt work any better than it does with clothes. Every year, the International Coach Federation surveys businesses and organizations about various subjects and issues being faced by individuals and companies. Last year the world’s largest coaching association asked...
- Tags: Uncategorized, Management, Staff, Personnel, Career, Co-workers, Boss, Leadership, Teams, Coaching, Performance, Women In It, Mentoring, Success, Job Satisfaction, Workplace Strategy, marker
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Meetings are a waste of time. We need more meetings.
- Part 1 of 2. Why are both of these opinions so prevalent in most organizations? Is it simply that most of us are surrounded by a bunch of whiners? No. And (although that guy in the Accounting Dept. may seem to tear-up pretty readily,) its fairly clear...
- Tags: Boss, Career, Co-workers, Coaching, Communication, Company Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Meetings, Performance, Presentations, Teams, Workplace Strategies
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
Additional Resources
- 10 tips for managing virtual teams
- Most everyone works in a team environment, and it's generally been understood that the most effective teams are those located together. But thanks to the Internet, faster and more reliable communications, and collaborative tools, people are now coming together on teams that are no longer co-located. In fact, the...
- Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Team Management, Globalization, Management, Strategy
- Download resources 2007-11-13
- Houston Teams Clock (widget)
- The Houston Teams Clock has all the professional teams, as well as some local favorite colleges. It will also show the current time in the dock icon. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: College, Icon, Houston Teams Clock, Team Management, Management
- Software downloads 2007-07-25
- Foster excellence and innovation within your software development team with these strategies
- Learn why software development teams are needed, explore the innovative nature of development work, and identify the conditions required for teams to do such work in this sample chapter from TSPSM: Coaching Development Teams. First take an overview of the Team Software Process TSP, a powerful process...
- Tags: Innovation, Software, Strategy, Team, Teamwork, Software Development, Addison-Wesley, Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2007-02-06
- Real Problems With Virtual Teams: An Analysis of the Factors Leading to Dysfunctional Online Collaboration
- In online education, virtual teams play an important role in collaborative and peer learning. Unlike traditional face-to-face teams, the students in a virtual team may be geographically distributed, work in different time zones, and may never physically meet face-to-face. Universitas 21 Global, one of the new breed of online universities,...
- Tags: Virtual Team, Online Collaboration, Analysis
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Coach your development team to work more, better, and in less time
- It is a big challenge to motivate people to work their hardest and to consistently do superior work, but it can also be very satisfying. When teams are excited about their work, they create better products in less time. Such teams are more productive, they do better work,...
- Tags: Team, Addison-Wesley, Chapter Coverage, Team Management, Management
- Book chapters 2007-01-24
- Development of Virtual Teams and Learning Communities
- Students of an Internet based course in project management have during a 20 week period worked in teams of 4-6 persons. The course consisted of Swedish students living in Sweden or abroad making it impossible for many of the teams to have any face-to-face interaction. The study shows that students...
- Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Team Management, Management
- White papers 2005-06-18
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