Tag: Debate

  • Three Steps to Build Accountability

    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…

  • Does your team have commitment issues?

    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…

  • Is absence of conflict killing your team?

    Is absence of conflict killing your team?

    Conflict is healthy. Decisions taken from a set of alternatives are measurably better than plans which emerge from a single solution. Generating, developing and choosing between options is better when carried out by a group with diverse – but relevant – skills and experience. So if you have a strong, diverse team formed from capable…