Open Up & Join Together
Eva’s skill in helping individuals make breakthroughs in their careers and personal lives works on a team level, too.
In today’s complex business world, while the talent of an individual remains crucial, much work must be done collectively. Within a “flat” organization, team members can be extremely diverse – spanning different age groups, offices, cultures, even continents.
Managing and leading these complex teams requires a different set of skills than the top-down, authoritative styles of the past. Managing today’s teams requires collaboration, openness, and communication.
These new attitudes don’t often come naturally, since most of us came from educational and corporate systems that stressed competition and individual performance.
In today’s complex business world, while the talent of an individual remains crucial, much work must be done collectively. Within a “flat” organization, team members can be extremely diverse – spanning different age groups, offices, cultures, even continents.
Managing and leading these complex teams requires a different set of skills than the top-down, authoritative styles of the past. Managing today’s teams requires collaboration, openness, and communication.
These new attitudes don’t often come naturally, since most of us came from educational and corporate systems that stressed competition and individual performance.
Raising the Level of Teams
The need for help in motivating and succeeding in teams is acute. Most of today’s team members are extremely frustrated. No wonder! They seem to accomplish less as a team, not more. Comments like these are common: “The minute we start working as a team, individual IQ levels of 130-140 drop to a collective IQ of 68,” and “I can honestly say I’ve been in the same meeting for two years.”
Team leaders are even more exasperated, since they can only go as far as their direct reports. And while a lot of workshops have been developed to teach people to be nicer to one another, breakthrough tools are needed to help people truly engage the support and resources of a collective environment. The point is to help teams make the best possible use of their combined talents.
Team leaders are even more exasperated, since they can only go as far as their direct reports. And while a lot of workshops have been developed to teach people to be nicer to one another, breakthrough tools are needed to help people truly engage the support and resources of a collective environment. The point is to help teams make the best possible use of their combined talents.
“My team members were all very strong people and high achievers – which is why we were put on this project. After a year of infighting, we brought Eva in to break the impasse. She made it very clear how we had been sabotaging each other, even without meaning to. We’re finally off dead-center.”
— Manager, Global IT Company