“As a manager, if you are not willing to ask for and accept feedback, then you don’t have the right to give it” Seth R. Silver “Feedback is the breakfast of champions” Ken Blanchard “Usually, we judge ourselves based on intentions.  But, we judge others, and they judge us, based on behavior” Rudolf Dreikurs Problem…

Thanks to Leaha Eidman for the graphical representation!

An article that Seth Silver and I published in the RBJ: How to lead in the time of COVID-19

Published to LinkedIn on 4/9/20: How to Help Class Teams Work Virtually

Hope you’re all safe, whether it’s from home or remaining healthy if you are essential and absolutely must go to work. The ideas below are taken from my book titled “Group Dynamics and Team Interventions.” This are tips you may find useful, whether you’re teaching online, working in a virtual group at school, or working…

In the “what’s coming” category: Lauren Vicker and I are doing are first talk about our upcoming book, Making Team Projects Work. Here’s a teaser: Our instructor’s guide to running team projects It’s arranged using the classic I-P-O model of group work. To make team projects successful, instructors need to properly design a task, form groups, and…

This is the summer of writing for me. I have a new laptop, a clean sun porch, and a sailboat in the water. I’ve set some serious reach goals for the summer – two book drafts. One of the books is with my colleague Lauren Vicker, where we are writing about how to make team…

My colleague Lauren Vicker and I are drafting a book designed to help high school teachers and college professors better design and run team projects. We’ll be posting information here as we progress. Hopefully you find some useful tips! We have seen, over the years, that many instructors run group and team projects. Too many…

Seth Silver and I are writing a book about an intervention for leaders and teams. The intervention, developed by Seth, is called the Workplace Covenant. We’ll start to post some teasers here. At this point, we’re about three chapters in. As a preview, here is a diagram that outlines the process for the Workplace Covenant:…

How do you handle peer conflict within teams? What about between leader and staff? What do you do when engagement is low among the team? I’m sure there are times when you have two staff members who just don’t get along. Perhaps they snip at each other or try to always have the last word.…