Read the Latest Articles from TIGERS Success Series
The following articles support building collaborative team cultures. They offer best practices for improving and maximizing performance, as well as expert insight on how to build teams with behaviors based on trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success (TIGERS). Team performance is directly related to these value-based behaviors by either their inclusion or omission. If you would like to republish these articles, contact Dianne Crampton at info@corevalues.com. No reasonable request denied.
The Value Of An Effective Apology
One mark of a good leader is how effective they are at apologizing. The result builds trust and lays the foundation for a learning organization that has the ability to learn and grow from mistakes. An effective apology team builds, keeps morale high and supports productivity.
Three Ideas for Reducing Conflict
Three ideas for designing and managing an effective volunteer program based on team culture principles.
Team Building with Happiness
It’s not often that a leader who starts a company and sells it 10 years later for almost a billion dollars shares the proceeds with employees.. But it happened in July 2009 when Amazon.com purchased Zappos.com for over $800 million. And, could you expect anything less of Tony Hsieh?
Recognizing Collaboration and Successful Team Building When You See It
Successful team building requires collaboration and interdependence from leaders and the type of corporate team culture that Zappos and Toyota excel at. Read more on how internal competition frays team trust and reduces team intelligence.
Empathy Performance: Why it is important for sustainable team cultures
In the survey results collected from managers and supervisors from March 2008-March 2009, conflict and communication were named as the most frequent problems teams face. This article addresses hiring criteria that minimizes the effects of conflict and communication on team cohesiveness. In this issue, we explore the universal team value, empathy, and why empathy skills are important for reducing conflict and improving communication for sustainable team cultures.
INTERDEPENDENCE: If we win I win
Developmental psychologists describe interdependence as the third of four human development stages where group-centered thinking rather than self-centered thinking emerges. Because interdependence requires self-awareness and appreciation for others and the willingness to serve the team, it demands high levels of self-security and self esteem from team members. This builds reverence and respect that elevates human interactions. Read more
 TRUST: The oil that keeps things going with the going gets hot
Core values are beliefs and codes of conduct that identify what an organization holds to be important and non-negotiable. Core values shape behaviors and explain how work life is on a daily basis. In this issue we explore behaviors that repaired trust in a merged air ambulance service. Read more
TRUST: Walking the Talk
The core value, Trust, is an essential human value and helps teams function when conflict arises. This article focuses on trust’s impact on talent management and reviews behaviors that both build and damage people’s willingness to trust. Adverse behaviors are harm trust on multiple levels. Read more
How to Improve Your Team-Building Success
Five important team functions are necessary for minimizing conflict and maximizing team-building success. These functions are critical for every stage of the team building process and for every step the team takes to complete its mission
How to Repair Trust After Workforce Reduction
Workforce reduction and the way it is handled either reinforce congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness. When this happens, trust is compromised. This article offers two suggestions on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so.
Five Emotionally-Wise Skills for Restoring Trust
Five important team functions are necessary for minimizing conflict and maximizing team-building success. These functions are critical for every stage of the team building process and for every step the team takes to complete its mission.
Five Ways Forward-Thinking Leaders Are Using The Recession To Build and Reposition Their Teams for Rapid Growth
Over the past eight weeks, I have been interviewing CEO’s of Team Cultures for my upcoming book and have learned some great tips to share with you about how they are strategically benefiting from the economic downturn. Just like the TIGERS values, these tips offer common sense solutions that many individualistic cultures will find difficult to implement due to burdensome hierarchies and competitive infrastructure.
Empathy Performance:
Why it is important for sustainable team cultures
In the survey results collected from managers and supervisors from March 2008-March 2009, conflict and communication were named as the most frequent problems teams face. This article addresses hiring criteria that minimizes the effects of conflict and communication on team cohesiveness. In this issue, we explore the universal team value, empathy, and why empathy skills are important for reducing conflict and improving communication for sustainable team cultures.
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