Communications

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.

Leading teams was the #1 challenge for 30% of the High Potential program attendees, as cited by researchers of Harvard Business School's High Potential Program over 20 years. Kimberly Douglas, CEO of FireFly Facilitation, offers a download to her e-book Roadmap to Building High Performance Teams and guides leaders on missing the road's potholes.

Kimberly Douglas shares her fascinating discussion with the artificial intelligence program Chat GPT on the important topic of team effectiveness. In addition, to Kimberly's question as to what data supports the importance of team effectiveness, the new program shares research that validates the critical necessity of working as a team for business success.

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.

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.

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.

First understand how people prefer to be communicated with using Whole Brain® Thinking...then use the "Optimal Flow" to create a powerful message everyone can hear.