Ah, a “dream team” - the well-functioning, highly effective and dynamic team - that we all dream of. Being able to successfully lead and work in teams is crucial to corporations to achieve their goals and stay ahead of the competition. Yet, there could be multiple barriers like a lack of trust, a lack of communication or inter-personal conflict stopping us from achieving the dream.
Planning to build a dream team but not sure where to start? Timeo-Performance can help you do so. We assess, build and develop teams and talents, and have been trusted by clients across all industries since 2008. We always seek to provide custom-fit solutions that work by understanding your culture, organisation and objectives before crafting solutions for you.
In this week’s digest, I listed a few articles to help us better understand and overcome the challenges we face when trying to build our dream team:
Working with a perfectionist team member can be challenging. While high standards could mean excellence, being unrelenting in that pursuit might cause redundant stress, conflict and even missed due dates as one gets lost in the details, forgetting the big picture. How can we work with perfectionists and even learn from them?
2. Tips for Reading the Room Before a Meeting or Presentation
In every conversation at work, there’s the explicit discussion and the tacit one. To be successful in most organizations, it’s important to understand the underlying conversations and reactions that people in the room are having. But how do you do so? What signals should you be looking for?
3. The Surprising Power of Questions
Questioning is a uniquely powerful tool for unlocking value in organizations: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, fuels innovation and performance improvement, builds rapport and trust among team members, and mitigate business risk by uncovering unforeseen pitfalls and hazards. Learn why and how to ask questions in this article.
4. What You Haven’t Considered About the Dark Side of Friendships at Work
How friendly should we get at work? Since so much time is spent in the workplace, making friends there seem almost instinctive. But is it truly this simple, or could there be a downside?
About Timeo-Performance
We were founded with a vision to improve the world of work for everyone
We are in the Skills Business!
Through recruitment, training and consulting, Timeo-Performance provides solutions for increased performance of companies, teams, and individuals. As our clients are in the center of global business and often serve the APAC region, our solutions need to be sustainable in a multicultural and remote context.
Our joint venture with Akteos, the European leader in intercultural training, and partnership with digital learning solutions provider CrossKnowledge have therefore been organic and logical additions to our service. Timeo-Performance has been helping companies in APAC increase business performance since 2008 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
We love what we do, feel the Timeo-Performance experience!
As busy professionals, our schedules are often filled to the brim with meetings and tasks to complete. We can get so caught up with work that we might even forget our all-important lunch and power through dinner as well. Alas, we can only do so much given the 24 hours we have in a day. While time management is vital, being productive is another matter in its entirety.Enter time batching.
