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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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The Effective Team’s Operational Excellence Workbook

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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!

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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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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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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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Exploring NLP for enhancing team effectiveness

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I recently graduated from Advance Coaching Consulting‘s and Magenta Coaching Solutions’ 7-day NLP Practitioner course in Cambridge.  It was a wonderful opportunity to explore some new resources for my work as a trainer, coach and consultant whilst also achieving some invaluable personal developments.  We discovered that the opportunities for applying NLP for enhancing individual and team …

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Empathy – the magical leadership ingredient?

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Empathy can make a difference in every situation that we find ourselves in as leaders or managers I recently read Geoff Crane‘s chapter 55 ‘Empathy in Project Management’ in the ‘Gower Handbook of People in Project Management‘. It’s a very large book, with a wealth of fascinating information, so I’m dipping into it a chapter …

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Working in far flung teams – notes from an APM East of England #APMEoE event

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APM East of England event, MedImmune, Cambridge, 12th November 2013 Issues facing ‘far flung’ teams Melanie Boyle, our host at MedImmune, welcomed us to the meeting and to a topic, which was very relevant to the geographically dispersed teams that she works with. ‘Far flung’ teams have a magnified version of the challenges faced by …

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