There will usually be someone on your team who is capable of driving you nuts... It might even be you! Here are some quick, practical principles for working better together and loving your teammates when they start to drive you nuts.

There will usually be someone on your team who is capable of driving you nuts... It might even be you! Here are some quick, practical principles for working better together and loving your teammates when they start to drive you nuts.

We explore the importance of recognizing our part and celebrating other peoples’ efforts, so we can cast out any attitudes of being the most important player in our team, and realize the importance of everyone’s position. When we can understand our gifts and weaknesses with humility, we can appreciate our team’s strengths and be humble enough to help others’ strengths shine through.

We explore the importance of recognizing our part and celebrating other peoples’ efforts, so we can cast out any attitudes of being the most important player in our team, and realize the importance of everyone’s position. When we can understand our gifts and weaknesses with humility, we can appreciate our team’s strengths and be humble enough to help others’ strengths shine through.

By putting people on our team in a pre-defined box, we lose sight of the benefits of acknowledging and celebrating our differences and hidden strengths. Celebrating differences in our work teams, rather than coming against them, can increase productivity, intentionality, and positivity to work better together.

By putting people on our team in a pre-defined box, we lose sight of the benefits of acknowledging and celebrating our differences and hidden strengths. Celebrating differences in our work teams, rather than coming against them, can increase productivity, intentionality, and positivity to work better together.

We explore Love Our Cities, an organization helping to stimulate more than 70 cities to work together and execute city wide days of service with Executive Director, Jeff Pishney. Jeff’s energy and enthusiasm fuels some great insights on what it takes to work better together.

Celebrating both the little and big things is equally important in your relationships. In your relationships and your project teams, recognizing the positives creates inertia to carry the team through. Let’s practice listening well and then celebrating getting through the struggles together!

How do you work better with the optimists & pessimists in your concentric circles of relationships with coworkers, family, and community? When you are uncomfortable with a person do you immediately start your exit strategy? We talk through these things and provide encouragement to hang in there in the times when we question if we truly are better together.

Do you have the vision for what you’re trying to do, or are you just working at it? We discuss parts of Will Mancini’s book, "Vision Frame," to dive into the importance of maintaining a clear vision, mission, strategy and measurement for your success to work better together.