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#8: Time To Cut The Line? Here’s How
Gone Fishin' Over the summer, I finally started using the new fishing rod my wife purchased me as a Christmas gift. I’m not a skilled angler, and I’ll say honestly that the ratio of lost lures to caught fish is less than ideal. It’s not uncommon to feel my hook snag...
#7: The Intention-Perception Gap in Small Teams
“BREAK BREAK – be advised – words mean things.” That was the interruption I received from my Joint Terminal Attack Control Instructor during the early stages of my training as a young Lieutenant. It came across my primary communication channel abruptly and...
#6: Effective Small Team Dynamics
In my first year after separating from the Air Force Special Warfare community and entering the private sector, I’ve encountered many misperceptions about what happens in the military’s elite small teams. Some military misperceptions are kind of funny – over a lunch...
Critical Communication Practices To Find The Best Candidate For That Role
Communication. It is a word often associated with being a generic resume filler that I am guilty of, as my current resume lists' corporate communication' as one of my top skills. Despite many people using it as a filler, it is arguably one of a person's essential...
Five Strategies For Effective Communication in The Workplace
In any operational area, organization, or business, effective communication is vital to success. As employers and top-level leaders, we are responsible for communicating the company’s message from the very top, down to the bottom. When the message is clear and...
#5: Talent Scarcity
In The Team Room Blog #4, I wrote about the two-pronged challenge of attracting the “Right People” to your team, then putting them in the “Right Seat” where they can make the most significant positive impact. One of our readers reached out to me via LinkedIn and left...
#4: Right People, Right Seats, No Exceptions
The last entry to The Team Room talked about the Pareto Principle – the idea that 80% of outcomes come from just 20% of inputs. In the context of small teams, it’s the terrifying concept that just one or two employees drive the vast majority of your team’s...
#3: The Pareto Principle – A Small Team’s Worst Nightmare
In The Team Room Blog #2, we talked about George A. Miller and his “Magical Number Seven” concept. It is valuable to tie that concept with a tangentially related theory from a gentleman named Vilfredo Pareto. Vilfredo Pareto is known as one of the foremost economic...
#2: What Is a Small Team?
By Dan Bradley:
Trying to retain more than nine bits of information at once led not only to poor retention of further information but the inability to recall previously retained pieces of information.
It stands to reason that an ideal size for a small team, then, would be between 5 and 9 people. Anything bigger than that is simply too large to effectively track, manage, and lead.
#1: Step Into The Team Room
By: Dan Bradley
Small teams – that’s the focus. Why? Because frankly, small teams are the most important piece of any organization. Whether you’re talking about a Division-level military command, a 25,000-person organization, or a 30-person small business, your mission success or failure hinges on the effectiveness of the small teams that comprise your organization. They are the foundation upon which everything else rests.
The Role of Informal Personality Assessment in Leadership and Everyday Decisions
By: Chris Frueh
Each of us uses informal personality assessments to make decisions about other people – and we have done this our entire lives.
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