team development

Neurodiversity – an organisational advantage to be valued and supported

By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th July 2017 What is neurodiversity, and why value it? I’ve been reading and thinking about neurodiversity for a while, as it is something that we value and support in young people at the Red Balloon Learner Centre in Cambridge, for which I am a Trustee. It is something that is sometimes …

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

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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Team Development in Project Management

By Elisabeth Goodman It’s been an honour, whilst also slightly intimidating, to have a chapter included in this latest project management publication edited by Dennis Lock and Lindsay Scott: the Gower Handbook of People in Project Management1. Project teams may want to get to “high performance” more rapidly than operational teams As I say in the …

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Preparing new managers to be effective coaches

Guest blog by Sean Conrad, Halogen Software Note from the Editor, Elisabeth Goodman Every now and then, people approach me (or I approach them) with a suggestion for a guest blog.  Anything that can bring insights for helping teams, or team leaders to work more effectively is potentially of interest.  What I like about this …

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