by James Reader | Oct 15, 2026 | Surveys, Talent Management, Team Functioning
As a team, do you really know who you are? Ask a leadership team how well it works and you may well get a confident answer. Ask each team member privately and you can get a completely different picture. On important dimensions of team effectiveness such as...
by Cedric de Beer | Oct 13, 2026 | Surveys, Talent Management, Team Functioning
Successful businesses are built on high-functioning teams. The team is the essential conduit between individual competence and organisational success. It is where most staff members spend much of their time, and it is where the work of the company is organised and...
by Cedric de Beer | Aug 31, 2023 | Articles, Team Functioning
How much do you love your children? Who is your favourite world leader and why? Which manager or mentor contributed most to your success at work? What did you learn from them? These are big questions which most people can answer without too much thought. And the...
by Lynne Derman | Jul 18, 2023 | Articles, Team Functioning
Is your team being carried by a few star individuals? As the team leader, you bear the responsibility of driving performance towards achieving goals that contribute to the organisation’s strategic objectives. Having a star performer or two is not the best way to...
by Cedric de Beer | Feb 16, 2021 | Articles, Team Functioning
“You are really good at that”. I am sure that many of us are in careers we have chosen because we were told (possibly in childhood) that we had a particular talent or had done something really well. It is a rare human being who does not swell a little with pride when...
by Cedric de Beer | Mar 31, 2020 | Team Functioning
Covid 19 is forcing many companies to have staff work remotely from home thus creating what are known as “virtual teams”. Leading virtual teams will pose new challenges to many managers, because it really is quite different from leading a team of people who all work...
