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1	Motivating Team Members This is the fifth post in a series on Improving Teamwork within your organization. In earlier posts we’ve clarified the results we’ll use to track improvements in teamwork and identified two vital behaviors that can drive these improvements. ...	Jul 3, 2008
2	Improving Teams: Breaking the 20 barriers to speaking up This is the fourth post in a series on Improving Teamwork within your organization. In this post, we will build our influence model, and we’ll begin by analyzing why our vital behaviors aren’t already pervasive in our teams. The mistake most ...	Jun 23, 2008
3	The vital behaviors to improve teamwork This is the third post in a series on improving teamwork within your organization. The first two posts framed the overall issue and identified the measurable results we want to achieve. This post will focus on finding the vital behaviors that drive the ...	Jun 17, 2008
4	Step #2 to Improve Teamwork This is the second post in a series on Improving Teamwork within your organization. I’m using healthcare teams in operating rooms, emergency rooms, and intensive care units as an example, but the principles could apply to any high-stakes team in any ...	Jun 12, 2008
5	Turning "teams of experts" into "expert teams" Have you ever been a part of a team that was stupider than the people on it? They’re pretty common, aren’t they? This post is the first in a series of blogs designed to fix this problem. Each post will address a different part of the ...	Jun 5, 2008
6	Entrenched Problems Have Multiple Root Causes If there’s one message to take from our book, Influencer: The Power to Change Anything, it’s that influencers succeed because they enlist a critical mass of our six sources of influence. They recognize that entrenched problems don’t stem ...	May 30, 2008
7	What makes cooliris cool? This is the second of two postings related to Cooliris, a Silicon Valley software startup I learned about during a presentation at Stanford’s d.school. What’s unique about Cooliris is the way they involve student interns. These interns are ...	May 16, 2008
8	Motivational Interviewing: How to really talk to your teen Personal motivation, a passion to change, is essential whenever you’re up against persistent, resistant problems. In fact, it’s the only common success factor across a wide variety of psychotherapies. You can treat an addiction or stubborn ...	May 7, 2008
9	Fitness Plan: The Power of the Environment These last few weeks I’ve been building a fitness plan that demonstrates how to apply our Influencer model to a personal endeavor. Each posting has focused on a different aspect of my plan. I began with sharing the measurable results I want to ...	May 2, 2008
10	Filled with Self Doubt? Try Shouting It Out! When learning new skills we can be our own worst enemy. In this blog, I'll focus on Source 2, Personal Ability, and share a single message about learning new skills: "Sometimes you have to get crazy!" A lot of the vital behaviors we ask people ...	Apr 29, 2008
11	Sticking to my fitness plan: Analyze and Adjust Remember my fitness plan? Here are the results I’m after: Long term, I want to be safe and fit enough to enjoy cycling, hiking, and skiing. Short term, I want to complete and enjoy a half marathon in June, to weigh 180 pounds by then, and to summit ...	Apr 23, 2008
12	What makes a vital behavior “vital”? The key insight is that big problems can be solved by changing just a few behaviors. If you put all your effort on those two or three vital behaviors, you’ll be rewarded with dramatic improvements. I’ll draw information from our book, ...	Apr 15, 2008
13	Part 2: How can I get safety issues on senior management's agenda? How can I help my senior team pay attention to issues like diversity, workplace safety, or employee engagement if it’s not a part of my firm’s Strategic Advantage? (This is part 2 of my last post on diversity) I spent time this week at TI ...	Apr 11, 2008
14	How can I get diversity issues on senior management's agenda? My group is responsible for diversity issues in our organization. Diversity is important to the future of our firm, but I can’t seem to get senior leaders to give it the attention it deserves. This is a great question—a tough question. Let ...	Apr 9, 2008
15	How do I stick to my fitness plan? Part 4 I’ve committed to 50 pushups a day and an hour of aerobic exercise five days a week. Now, I’m building my influence strategy by combining influences from each of the six sources of influence we describe in Influencer. In this post I’ll ...	Apr 7, 2008
16	How do I stick to my fitness plan? Part 3 Remember my fitness plan? I’ve committed to 50 pushups a day and one hour of aerobic exercise five days a week. In the next few posts I’ll build my influence strategy to guarantee that I stick with my plan. The key will be to combine ...	Apr 2, 2008
17	How Do You Spell “Setback?” For me, "setback" is spelled “Elk Ridge,” and you can find it off the Saddleback Express chairlift at The Canyons ski resort. If you check my last blog, you’ll see I’m working on an influence challenge. My long-term goal ...	Mar 28, 2008
18	How can I keep to my exercise plan? This is the question that has launched thousands of magazine covers. I’m not sure what your situation or desired results are, so I won’t give you advice directly. Since it gets to the heart of self influence, I’ll give myself advice ...	Mar 25, 2008
19	Reader Challenge: How can I get people to keep their word at work? Q: How can I get people to keep their word at work? People agree to unrealistic deadlines and unrealistic budgets with no real intention of meeting them. At the end of the day nobody delivers and nobody trusts anyone. A: Not only is this problem common, ...	Mar 12, 2008
20	Undergoing acquisition? How influence will save your job Q: How do I survive an acquisition? A few months ago the company I work for got bought by one of its competitors. There have been two big rounds of layoffs, and now several of my managers are from the other firm. I love my job, what can I do to keep it? ...	Mar 3, 2008

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