Tag: Commitment
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Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
The best quote from the worst film in the Star Wars series. At the risk of going the full David Brent, I’d like to offer the following: Trust leads to conflict. Conflict leads to commitment. Commitment leads to accountability. Accountability leads to results. Results are the measures of success of high-performing teams. It may not have the…
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It’s not about you – helping your team to focus on results
Many potentially high-performing teams still lose their way. Trust is high, fierce debate is present, commitment and accountability is well-developed – but when three, six, twelve months have passed, there’s always a reason why they haven’t delivered. The reasons may be understandable; the decisions justified – but given their time again, the team would have…
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Three Steps to Build Accountability
We’ve talked about trust, conflict and commitment. They’re vital ingredients of high-performing teams except… we haven’t actually done any work yet. Following a decision, once work is underway, teams can often be tripped up by a lack of accountability – an unwillingness to hold each other to account for delivery. Accountability can only be built on…
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Does your team have commitment issues?
The meetings have been endless – yet you’re going round in circles, and things you’d thought had been agreed keep being re-opened. Or maybe you thought you’d got your team to agree and sign their names in blood – but a few weeks later, there’s little sign of progress. You might be suffering from commitment…