Mike - Team Leaders

Co-founder of Team Leaders. We are team performance specialists, giving your teams and leaders the biggest untapped source of competitive advantage.

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E.I. isn't just a case of being nice and getting in touch with feelings; it improves self-awareness, social awareness and helps us to adapt our communication style and ultimately perform better.

4 Reasons Emotional Intelligence Impacts the Bottom Line

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Retaining key members of your team is about building trust and in turn loyalty. From our experience one of the most effective ways to build trust is by creating a safe environment where everyone feels they can contribute and be listened to.

How do you build trust with your team?

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10 practical leadership lessons from Steve Jobs

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It seems that even beyond this pandemic remote leadership is here to stay in some form or other.

5 great tips on effective virtual people management:

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Great article about preventing burnout!

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We've been doing some market testing and speaking to our clients about our new real-time leadership proposition - and it's getting a really positive response. I'm starting to get really excited about developing and delivering this proposition!

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How will these new measures affect your team?

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Appreciation is one of the most simple, elegant and effective leadership tools there is; it makes you feel better and makes your team feel more valued.

But different people like to be appreciated for different things – do you know your people well enough to appreciate them?

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The majority of our clients are telling us that their teams are working well together virtually. But how are the relationships between different teams in the organisation?

If virtual working is affecting inter-team connections, then what’s the impact of this on the value chain?

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Boris has got his cabinet together face-to-face and they’ve moved location to make it happen.

How would your team benefit from getting together face-to-face?

(In a safe environment!)

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The best leaders and the best teams use setbacks, disruption and adversity as an opportunity to grow.

6 Ways a Crisis Can Help You Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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Even the best leaders suffer from lulls in productivity from time to time. It's how you get yourself back to your best that counts.

A few tips on getting your productivity back on track:

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It's never been more important that your team culture inspires trust, high performance and wellbeing.

Have you been developing your team culture remotely?

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Every leader is going to face setbacks during these difficult times. If we can build resilience then these setbacks can be turned into learning experiences.

11 Tips to Build Emotional Resilience:

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Even the best leaders get criticised sometimes. It's how you respond that counts.

5 useful tips on making the most of negative feedback:

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It's been a difficult few months - team performance can be lost in the chaos of the crisis.

Have you taken a pause to review and reflect on your team's performance recently?

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We're hearing from some clients that in the early stages of lockdown their teams corralled around a central purpose and this brought them together and ironed out differences, but this is starting to drift now.

What's the atmosphere like in your team?

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Things are starting to go back to some kind of normal, but we're still in unchartered and uncertain territory.

The future is even more unknowable than usual. So how do we lead into this?

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The best leaders are self-aware; they really understand how they come across, can manage their emotional state and model the right behaviours. The question is how best to develop this?

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We're currently running individual development programmes for some of Save the Children's country directors and deputy country directors. I've been having some awesome coaching calls and 360 feedback sessions!