Enhancing Team Effectiveness

Enhancing team effectiveness through temperature checks or diagnostics – a second look

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 13th December 2015 Additional insights on team temperature checks It’s been three years since I wrote my last blog on team development and team temperature checks, and I have since published The Effective Team’s High Performance Workbook, and also used the principles and approaches with project and operational teams.   My adapted version …

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The Kano model for team building – an alternative application for this Lean Sigma tool

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 8th November 2015 The Kano model  is traditionally used as a ‘Voice of the Customer’ Lean Sigma tool I had the pleasure of co-presenting a seminar with Carl Halford  recently, for the APM (Association for Project Management) Thames Valley Branch, on behalf of the Enabling Change SIG. The full set of slides and the …

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Is it psychobabble? How better understanding can lead to better collaboration

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2015 Meet Diane and Tom Diane and Tom are two colleagues who have been working together for some years now.  Their latest project is to make a new kind of widget. Diane enjoys a good debate. She loves having new challenges to explore, opportunities to think ‘outside the box’, to break …

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Difficult people are not necessarily being difficult!

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 31st March, 2015 How to work with difficult people is a subject that many managers struggle with How to work with “difficult” people is one of the topics Janet Burton and I explore in RiverRhee Consulting’s 3-day Introduction to Management course , and in our tailored in-house supervisor and line manager courses. …

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From stoical survivor to natural navigator – strategies for proactive change programme managers.

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 26th February 2015 Roles of those associated with change programmes I’ve just come back from delivering a seminar for the Midlands branch of the APM, with my colleague (and Chair) on the APM Enabling Change SIG, Martin Taylor. The event, “How to keep programmes on track and teams inspired during periods of change”, attracted …

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De Bono’s thinking course. An essential facilitator’s tool?

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2015 Edward De Bono’s thinking course One of the aspects of my local library that I particularly enjoy is the way I might serendipitously discover a gem of a book that the staff have either casually or deliberately put on display. One such recent discovery was Edward De Bono’s “Thinking …

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The five principles of “error proof” collaboration with people outside your own organisation

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By Luis Fernandez, with an introduction by Elisabeth Goodman 21st November, 2014 Introduction I asked Luis to write this blog as he has a very people centric approach to project management, and I thought he might have a valuable perspective on how to bring that to bear when collaborating with people outside the project team. …

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Engaging staff in operational excellence – a case study on the visual workplace

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Managing cargo shipments in the Port of Felixstowe I’ve been catching-up on my business reading.  I always find something fascinating when I do…. True to form, my efforts were quickly rewarded this morning, with a case study on digital signage at the Port of Felixstowe in the August 14th issue of Business Weekly. This article caught …

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The Effective Team’s High Performance Workbook – out soon!

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by Elisabeth Goodman I’m delighted to say that the second in my series of  “The Effective Team’s ” workbooks will be coming out soon. THE EFFECTIVE TEAM’S high performance WORKBOOK Elisabeth Goodman (author), Nathaniel Spain (illustrator), August 2014 – ISBN 978-0-9926323-6-6 This second book in the series focuses on how to achieve a high performance team.  This is the description on …

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There will never be enough time!

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Red Balloon Last week, Janet Burton and I had the pleasure of working with several of the Coordinators and other staff from the Red Balloon at their headquarters in Cambridge. These talented and caring individuals work with often deeply troubled young people at the Red Balloon’s centres around the UK who have experienced bullying and other traumas …

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