If you have ever tried to build a team from the ground up, then you know first hand the difficulties and challenges you can face.  And in today’s business environment building a team can even be more challenging as more and more teams are some combination of remote and in office a “hybrid” if you will.  What are the principles when trying to build a new team?

On this episode of A New Direction Chief Potential Officer of Kevin Eikenberry group, Kevin Eikenberry is listed as one of the Top 30 Leadership Professionals by Global Gurus joins us, as well as co-author Wayne Turmel cofounder of the Remote Leadership Institute.  Kevin and Wayne help us understand that there are many components and questions that you should be asking before you build a team.

For example: Have you considered the culture?  What is that going to look like for the team?  What does bringing on a new team member do to the team?  How do you get everyone to buy in?  How are you going to execute your plan?  What about communication?  Collaboration?  Cohesion?  How is that going to look?  There simply is more to the story than just building a team.

Then you may have to ask yourself, what if you have an existing team and you want to alter the culture?  Maybe you have new leadership?  Maybe it’s a merger?  Now what do you do?  What questions should you be asking?  What are the roles of leadership?  What role does everyone else play in creating this new culture?

Clearly attempting to create a new team is not going to be easy in a hybrid world.  But Kevin and Wayne will help us sort it out.  If you would like to have the questions that Kevin and Wayne ask to help you design your team you can click on over to https://longdistanceteambook.com/questions

Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel‘s book “The Long-Distance Team: Designing Your Team for Everyone’s Success” is a guide, and practical tool kit for anyone who wants to build a new team, or having to redesign an existing team.  

The questions that the author’s ask in each section of the book are thought provoking and really help those in leadership and beyond come to grips with those areas in building a team that are often overlooked and ignored.

The Long Distance Team has been written certainly with the remote/hybrid in mind.  But after I read and outlined the book, I have found that the practical principles are so sound and solid, that these questions and suggestions can be applied to any team regardless of remote or in the office.

I really enjoyed this book and have taken to heart the lessons and will be applying them to my current work in redesigning a current team that will be going through a leadership transition.

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In a survey of 1400 American business it was cited that 92% of executives said that cultural change was critical and a driver to increase their company’s values.  Yet only 16% said their culture is where it needs to be.  It is not surprising.  When it comes to business culture we talk a good talk, but we do little to address it.  The fact is our behavior does not match our words and chances are all the cute little mottos, mission statements, value words, and vision are pretty meaningless.  They are just words because they sound great, but very few if any are put into practice by the CEO or other C-suite leaders so what do you expect your people do?  Exactly…the same thing…nothing.

The research has made it clear time and time again that having the right culture in your business is important, so why do we neglect it, ignore it, or say we don’t have the time for it?  Well those are questions for Cultural Strategist and Business Culture Expert Colin D. Ellis as he joins us in this episode of  A New Direction (AND).  Colin will take us through the research, the trials and tribulations of creating a culture, but also demonstrate to us that a consistently great culture makes the business more profitable in a variety of different ways.

Colin’s book the Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work will take you through what culture is, what it takes to create it, the type of culture you may be in, and the six pillars to change it, and then follows it up with how do you make culture truly stick.  Culture fix is a fun witty research example filled read.  In every chapter, if that is what you would like to call them, Colin gives a brief summary and action steps you can take to start changing your culture right now.  Culture Fix is one of the most comprehensive practical guides on culture change on the market.  And if you are looking to change something in your business and do not want to spend the money well as Colin would suggest “fix your culture”.  As I would say, get a copy of Culture Fix.

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