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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Consensus: the right team decision strategy?
- Consensus is the appropriate decision strategy for the most important team decisions. Every member of your team needs to understand what consensus really means. A common misconception of consensus is that it means everyone agrees with the decision 100 percent.If a team adopted this definition as the basis for all of its decisions, what would happen?- The team would never be able to m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Team member feedback: a priceless communication tool
- Feedback is such an important communication tool. Openness, honesty, candor, trust -- all of these are hallmarks of high performance teams and organizations. Good feedback skills are essential to any relationship.Feedback is important because:- It prevents small issues from festering into unmanageable problems.- It builds trust in relationships.- It promotes personal an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Team building celebration plan -- perfect for any time of year
- When was your last team celebration? Have you been way too busy to bother? Sometimes we get so caught up in day-to-day work that we don't take the time to step back and celebrate success. Some teams may even consider team celebrations as "silly."It's critical to celebrate success if you want your team to maintain their high performance. Successes are the "motivating fuel" that keeps all of ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 reason why team has a 4 figure income
- You are new to Internet Marketing, you join one Affiliate programs, you have your promotion tips, marketing tips, also the affiliate will provide you with the commission plan, and they will give you a personal website just like they are. Now the big question is "Where am I heading??? " "People already know how to heading no where" what you need is a "team to guide you to heading somewh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Boost your success with an r&d team
- One of the best ways to ensure that your planning is successful is to create your own R&D (research and development) group. All truly successful businesses have departments or teams specifically dedicated to finding and developing new and better ways to do whatever it is the company does, so why not you? At it's most basic, and R&D group can be a small group of friends that you bribe into ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to encourage ideas from your team at meetings
- You're at a meeting with key staff. You want some new ideas to address the topic. Looking around at this group of creative, ambitious, bright people, you say, "Let's get some fresh ideas on this. Who's got something?"Suddenly,you feel like the high-school teacher who has asked a question about the homework no one did. People find their notepads fascinating, others fumble in their ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Putting your expert team together
- As a freelance writer myself, I know how important it is to have, and keep track of, experts to interview. Here are a few ideas on the topic: I always emphasize to clients and seminar participants how important it is to start and maintain a "Team 100" list -- people to support you in whatever you are doing. It is also equally important to start and maintain "Expert 100" list. For a writer t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Station teams: assembly required
- Too often teams aren't assembled. They just happen. A project comes along and a team is assigned to work it. The group gathers and attempts to figure out a solution, but trouble starts brewing almost at once. Only some of the people do any work. Some people don't get along. Meetings are frequent and mind numbing. No one is quite sure what the assignment actually is. I call well-assembled te...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 12 tips and reminders for team members to enjoy their team experiences more
- 12 Tips and Reminders for Team Members To Enjoy Their Team Experiences More Warning: The ideas that follow work. Don't be fooled by their simplicity. For experienced team members and team leaders some of these tips may seem obvious. Sometimes however it is the obvious things we forget about or don't apply. As you read the list think about your past experiences and determine which of these i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 key dimensions of high performance teams
- 7 Key Dimensions of High Performance Teams We can always look at the behaviors and skills of team leaders and team members in analyzing team performance and success, but it is also instructive to look at the overall team as well. The list of attributes that follows describes team units that are highly productive and successful. You can use this list as a set of criteria by which you can jud...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The top ten methods to create a successful work team
- Teams are often useful in situations where the task cannot be completed individually or if the task requires working interdependently. However, a successful team requires thought and planning. Too often, a group of individuals is simply thrown together, given a mandate, "marching orders" and then told, "Now go make us proud!"To create an effective work team, defined outcomes, c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven keys to more effectively leading teams
- Maybe you find yourself in a new team environment and leading a team for the first time, or maybe you have been working with and leading teams forever. Either way, the keys in this article ? whether as new information or a fresh reminder ? can make a world of difference in morale, productivity and results from teams. Help the team identify its purpose. People work more effectively when they...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 3 steps to successfully build a team in any program
- Any x by y matrix plan has one big risk... but also one big advantage.The biggest risk: People in your downline might think they don't have to promote and just wait for your spillover.The biggest advantage: Still, it's a great way to build a deep team quick... if you and the people in your team understand that they shouldn't just sit and wait for it to happen.The following 3 s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Putting the i in team
- This sports cliche is a memorable phrase that reminds people that team success is more important than individual glory. In that sense it is wonderful and is as true for business teams as it is for sports teams. The phrase, however, overlooks the role of the individual in making the team stronger. To encourage team development, organizations use teambuilding events. Many of these events...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The logic of females - or lack there of
- Many males complain that they don't understand females. Many females complain that they don't understand males. We also have the classic saying that men are from mars and women are from venus. Physically both sexes are very similar and are of the same species so what is the problem?After much reading on the subject, there seems to be a general consensus that there is a fundamental differenc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The breakdown of relationships and why they fail
- All females need sexual tension from a prospective or existing partner to consider having or continuing to have, a physical relationship with them. Lose this from the start and you will become mayor of the friend zone.Definition of sexual tension - Cocky and funny. A loud mouth, walking the thin line of winding her up without overly offending her. Posing as a challenge and not doing everyth...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The evolution of love
- Songs have been saying it for generations together. Ask anyone what the world needs and the one answer you would get is-" love". We need love at all times. It is the basis of all our relationships in one form or the other. Despite knowing and understanding the need for it, we haven't been able to understand it well enough. It has evoluted and here is its story.Everybody's saying t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you looking for ms. right or mr. not so wrong?
- Do you want to find the "love of your life?"It's not easy to find Mr. or Miss "Right". And how do you know if you're right when you think you have?The chilling fact is 75% of marriages end up unhappy, separated or divorced. The stakes are high, yet the tools to help you make the right decision have been almost non-existent... until now!Scientific research has shown that pickin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Being mindful of your mates space
- SOMETIMES I'LL ask a couple I'm seeing in therapy to do the following exercise.1. The husband and wife stand about six feet apart.2. The husband walks slowly toward his wife until he reaches a point where he no longer feels comfortable. Some men stop about three feet from their wives. Others stop at 30 inches and still others at 27.3. The wife now moves toward her husband or s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 things you probably didnt know about signs of infidelity
- Certain things about signs of infidelity come as a surprise to most people. Even people who pride themselves on being knowledgeable about extramarital affairs may be unfamiliar with the little-known facts below. This information is taken from Is He Cheating on You? ? 829 Telltale Signs.1. Telltale signs first begin to appear while the infidelity is still in the planning stage....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to use your brain to seduce women
- CHESS-MATEIf you're one of those guys telling to yourself that Antonio Banderas might be a little prettier then you but again your IQ beats that of Einstein by an inch, than the next lines were written for you. You have to know how to use your advantage against a two-digit IQ macho-man and this is no easy deal. Some studies even say that intelligence alone is actually not too sexy to most p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: dont be a darren stevens
- Q: I can't believe I'm asking this question, because I can't believe I'm even feeling this way. My wife just got an offer that would give her a better and higher paying job than I have. I can't believe I am jealous, and even worse, I'm tempted to encourage her not to take it. How do I stop myself from doing something really stupid?I'm glad you wrote, because not only would you be doi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Walls of communication!
- Matters of the heart are a true mystery to all involved. In order tomake a commitment to a relationship, it takes strength and trust inanother. When we trust our partner and we receive trust back, it is avery nice feeling. One should never betray or play games with thattrust. Those games usually get caught, and a broken trust will surelycreate a huge wall of comm...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: how to get ?all a?s? in couples communication
- Mark Twain once said that he believed it was "God's great cosmic joke on humanity when He required men and women to live together in marriage."When it comes to couples trying to communicate with each other, I believe old Mr. Clements was right on target.Every day in my office, I watch men and women trying to talk with each other. While from my chair I can understand what ea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: how to balance your hear at work with your heart at home
- Remember the Tom Cruise movie "Jerry Maguire?"From my seat in the theater, this movie had a much more valuable message than it's catch phrase "show me the money."Tom Cruise plays the title character Jerry Maguire, a fast moving sports agent who lives for the big score and makes big money. After an attack of conscious, he is let go by his firm. Cuba Gooding, Jr. plays his one remainin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relatinship advice: the ability to create a vision for your relationship
- Many of us stumble into marriage and then continue to make it up as we go along. But relationships need much more conscious planning in order to be successful. In a hectic and throwaway culture, couples need a vision for their relationship.What is a relationship vision?Just what is a relationship vision? It's a deliberate design for your relationship: what you're willing to gi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: the ability to apologize and forgive
- I'm sorry can be words that are much too easy to say. The notion of apology and forgiveness in relationships takes "I'm sorry" into new territory that can be very healing and actually have meaning.The ability to apologize and to forgive is crucial to any long-term relationship. Many of us find it difficult to apologize.In order for an apology to be genuine, at least three elements ne...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: the ability to resolve conflict
- Conflict in a relationship is both normal and painful. In working with couples I have found that it's the successful resolution of the conflict that strengthens the couple's bond and brings them closer together. The resolution comes only by walking through the conflict and not around it.There is so much that can cause conflict, everything from the big five:1. money2....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relatinship advice: the ability to meet emotional needs
- Harville Hendrix, in his book ``Getting the Love You Want'' has some interesting and helpful notions about the process of falling in love. According to Hendrix, as we fall in love with someone, we believe that this person will be able to meet all of our emotional needs.But eventually the infatuation wears off and the day-to-day grind sets in. Partners begin to think or even say things such ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Great relationship advice: the ability to communicate
- In my workshops with couples, I start with this question:"How many of you believe men and women are created differently?"Usually most everyone agrees, and I congratulate them on passing Anatomy 101. The next question is slightly different:"How many of you believe that men and women think, feel, perceive and experience the world in sometimes dramatically different ways?"...