All the Feels: Sweet & Salty
Healthy teamwork embraces disagreement, shared leadership, active participation, and honest feedback to create a constructive atmosphere where teams grow stronger together.
All the Feels: Bringing Joy to Teams
Effective teams thrive when shared vision, people development, clear purpose, collaboration, and open communication work together to create alignment and momentum.
All the Feels: It Takes a Village
When teamwork is functioning well, teams experience greater satisfaction, stronger collaboration, and better decision-making. Effective teams create synergy that allows individuals to contribute their strengths while overcoming weaknesses together.
Are You Married to Teamwork or Growing Apart?
Are you married to teamwork or growing apart as of late? Just like marriage, effective teams require commitment, shared responsibility, and intentional leadership development. When individuals carry the load alone, productivity suffers and organizational effectiveness breaks down. True team leadership is not about titles or hierarchy but about shared vision, mutual respect, and collaborative responsibility. When leaders commit to team development, invest in healthy relationships, and model intentional leadership, teams grow stronger, more resilient, and aligned around a common mission.
Waking Up in 2026: Seeds, Faith, and Muscle!
As you quietly read this at the turn of the New Year, I’m sure you have reflected on the joys, successes, and trials of 2025. Like every year before it, each day came and went, leaving behind memories. You spent an entire year believing that there was a better tomorrow and you made decisions of FAITH that later yielded results.
To Team or Not to Team…That is the Question!
What would happen if you did not prioritize enhancing your own team leadership? The truth is that a lack of intentionality in leadership development can weaken your team culture, slow organizational growth, and limit long term success. When leaders invest in team training, collaboration, and communication skills, the results are expansive and deeply rewarding.
Achieving Superior Results: Recognizing the Immense Value of a Team
Teams rivet themselves to the vision more easily than individuals working alone. With regular accountability and collaboration, teams can more clearly assess potential hindrances and trajectories of decisions, observing how an action done on the front lines of the organization either reinforces or sabotages the company vision.
Part 1: Live the Values
Ultimately, our potential as leaders will be determined not by born leadership abilities, but by letting ourselves be crafted through circumstances, instruction, observations, reflection, failures, and renewed efforts. Leaders who make the greatest impact have spent years in the leadership development process themselves. Organizations rise and fall based on a firm set of values. And one of the most reliable ways to build credibility inside and outside our team is to Walk the Talk.
NORMING & PERFORMING
After the first two stages of team development, the third stage is called norming – the time when the team is actively working together. During the norming stage, most teams have achieved an open climate where team members express emotions constructively, willingly and confidently contribute to the team, and demonstrate caring attitudes about the team and organization. In this third stage team members are consciously skilled. The final stage of team development is performing – the time when the team is fully functional as individual members and in collaboration with other team members. During this fourth stage, team members are unconsciously skilled. Consequently, team members comfortably reveal their true selves and self-identify as an integral member of the team.
FORMING & STORMING
We can learn from the past. Past leaders. Past events. Past lessons. Several years ago, the National Research Laboratories examined successful teams from World War II to determine if there were common dynamics that contributed to their success. Their research defined four stages of successful team development. The first stage for team development is forming – the time when a team first comes together. The second stage of team development is called storming – the time when team members struggle with identifying their place within the team.