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"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute." - Simon Sinek

Is your team ready for the finish line?

“The absence of conflict is not harmony, it’s apathy.” - Adam Grant

"Vision without execution is hallucination.” - Thomas Edison

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results” - Sir Winston Churchill

"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard

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.

Team effectiveness expert Kimberly Douglas provides best practices, tips, tools, and techniques in her FireFly Flash 90-minute workshops customized to your organization's specific needs. Based on a survey of hybrid work challenges conducted with your team, she develops and conducts a unique learning experience.

"Vision without execution is hallucination.” - Thomas Edison

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.

Strategic Planning is a critical part of an organization's success. It results in creating a mission, vision, values, and priorities. Kimberly Douglas, CEO of FireFly Facilitation and expert facilitator in strategic planning, can guide your organization through its strategic review and planning session. In this newsletter, she identifies deliverables and 3 key points that will maximize the ROI of everyone's time. Also in this newsletter is a free download of her Strategic Planning e-book where she recommends 5 key changes every team should make to their next annual strategic planning session.

Now may be the time to look at your organization and decide if old processes, recurring meetings, and projects are spreading your team and resources too thin. Kimberly Douglas and her experience as a master facilitator will bring her expertise to help your organization evaluate and problem-solve to re-energize and re-engage your team.

Effective communication within organizations is critical for success. This newsletter provides a sneak peek into one of Kimberly's FireFly Flash 90-minute virtual team and individual work-effectiveness workshops. This newsletter also gives you a free download of the session summary to immediately give you an actionable start to improving your communication strategy today.

Leadership and employee accountability can become a win-win for both. Professional facilitator Kimberly Douglas, shares successful methods for leaders to learn how to hold their team accountable by first helping them fully understand their value and purpose. She then engages them in learning the skills to set clear expectations and effective follow-up accountability.

Strategic Planning is a critical part of an organization's success. It results in creating a mission, vision, values, and priorities. Kimberly Douglas, CEO of FireFly Facilitation and expert facilitator in strategic planning, can guide your organization through its strategic review and planning session. In this newsletter, she identifies deliverables and 3 key points that will maximize the ROI of everyone's time. Also in this newsletter is a free download of her Strategic Planning e-book where she recommends 5 key changes every team should make to their next annual strategic planning session.

For many managers, the most challenging part of their job is dealing with employees and effectively holding them accountable when they aren't achieving their goals. Kimberly Douglas, expert team effectiveness facilitator teaches that when faced with a challenge or frustration of some kind, we each have a choice on how to handle it at that moment. You will learn how to ask yourself better questions that lead to more productive decisions, better results, a better sense of well-being, and a feeling of control over the situation.

Dr. Bruce Tuckman's Stages of Team Development is one of the models Kimberly Douglas uses when creating team effectiveness and helping leaders build high-performing teams. FireFly Facilitation will lead teams through Tuckman's 4 stages - Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing resulting in changes in trust, knowledge sharing, and ultimately levels of cohesiveness and team effectiveness and performance.

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.