The FireFly Effect Blog

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By Kimberly Douglas 24 Apr, 2023
Are high potential leaders naturally expected to know how to lead teams? According to HBR's researchers analyzing their High Potential Leadership Program, more than 30% cited leading teams as a core challenge. Kimberly Douglas, CEO of FireFly Facilitation offers her a free e-book to help jump-start leading teams for your leadership program and can guide you through the rough patches to help build team effectiveness and your team into a higher performing one.
By Kimberly Douglas 04 Jul, 2021
In this Blog, Kimberly Douglas provides an employee's perspective of the future of hybrid work, working remotely, and the potential return to full-time office hours. Based on her research from multiple surveys of employees of all ages, genders, races, roles, and industries, Kimberly identifies key topics and provides links to actual surveys for details.
4 Key Stages of Team Development Leading to High-Performance Teams
By Kimberly Douglas 30 Jun, 2021
What makes great teams so successful? Is it the individual? A charismatic team leader?
By Kimberly Douglas 08 Sep, 2019
In last week's post we discussed Vroom Yetton, a powerful tool for determining how groups will make decisions. This week I clarify the criteria to the team leader can use to decide the right level of team involvement for your critical decision.
By Kimberly Douglas 05 Sep, 2019
If you thought the hard part was over once you created your strategic plan...think again. As Thomas Edison said: "Vision without execution is hallucination."  How do you ensure that everyone is on the same page and pulling in the same direction? Through effective communication planning - that clarifies the Who, How, and When.
By Kimberly Douglas 04 Sep, 2019
To inspire organizational innovation, you must begin at the individual level. So, what's holding us back? I have found there are 3 myths that keep companies and individuals from tapping into their true creative potential. Read on to discover what they are - and how to overcome them.
By Kimberly Douglas 04 Sep, 2019
Over the past 20+ years of helping organizations successfully navigate change, one of my top lessons learned from (successful or unsuccessful) change initiatives has been the critical importance of effective communications. In this post, I share my top 3 tips for helping leaders in their important role of change champions.
By Kimberly Douglas 04 Sep, 2019
The Vroom Yetton framework can help the leader and team decide how to decide. This post explains the framework and how to use for more effective team decision making.
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