Good Teams Are More Than The Sum Of The Parts
Have you ever wondered if your team is any good? Not just competent or functional…
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How To Improve Team Performance by 25%
Twenty five percent is not a small number, definitely not a marginal gain! It’s a huge uplift, achieved through the application of a single team habit. The use of After Action Reviews. After Action Reviews, (AAR), sometimes referred to as Retrospectives in the language of agile planning are a…
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Face to Face = Better Teams
A good habit of British Army Regiments is the informal convening power of the Officers’ and Sergeants’ mess. Mid- morning, officers and NCOs will leave their various departments and sub-units and meet for coffee. It’s not mandated but this informal routine interaction drives a surprising amount of productive business. Far…
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Call of Duty?
‘We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it’. Baden-Powell ‘Call of Duty’ is a well know computer game – at least to anyone with teenage boys. It’s a violent first-person shooter game that has sold well over 400…
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Freedom Inside Constraints
The Legendary Basketball coach John Wooden[1], would begin each new season by sitting down his new players and demonstrating to them how they were to tie the laces on their shoes. Surely unnecessary? – These athletes had been playing the game for years. Wooden’s point, was that for many things…
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Are You Willing To Pay The Price?
‘If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price’. Rudyard Kipling Any goal or ambition worthy of the name has a price but often we fail to recognize this or ask…
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What Do You Notice?
‘Clarity begins with realizing what we do not notice—and don’t notice that we don’t notice’. Sir Alex Ferguson the legendary former coach of football club Manchester United was quite clear in his leadership philosophy and approach to coaching that the ability to notice what was going on, to…
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