effective teams

Understanding when we are at our best

By Elisabeth Goodman, 26th June 2016 Why seek to understand when we are at our best? Two of the most popular topics in the 3-day Introduction to Management course that I run with RiverRhee Consulting are motivation, and Belbin team roles.  The way we explore them is by examining what motivates the delegates on the …

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Creating the conditions for growth at work

By Elisabeth Goodman, 16th February 2016 It’s performance review and appraisal time It’s that time of year again: performance appraisals were either completed just before the end of 2015, or are in full swing. Objectives are being set for the year ahead. Managers and those being managed may be feeling ‘stressed’ by the challenge of …

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

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 Effective Team’s Operational Excellence Workbook

By Elisabeth Goodman, 10th June 2015 This is the third in my series of  “The Effective Team’s ” workbooks and it will be out shortly. THE EFFECTIVE TEAM’S operational excellence WORKBOOK Elisabeth Goodman (author), Nathaniel Spain (illustrator), 2015 – ISBN 978-0-9926323-7-3 This third book in the series focuses on how to achieve operational excellence.  Here is the description from the back …

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Difficult people are not necessarily being difficult!

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.

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

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

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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Finding the leader within ourselves

Why yet another article about leadership? I’ve had an unusually busy few weeks so the gap between my blogs has been greater than usual. However the magical combination, for me, of coming across an inspirational article, engaging with enthusiastic people, and listening to others’ ideas at a conference has finally triggered my own reflections! So, this blog is about …

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