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February 7, 2024
New Article for HR Future Magazine
HR Future, the prestigious South African magazine, wanted an article from me on the challenge of having those awkward, difficult conversations with “problem” team members. HR Future magazine was a print magazine which is now published digitally and only available to paying subscribers as a digital magazine, not as a website available to all internet […]
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February 6, 2024
New Article for Training Journal
One of the hottest topics in training, coaching, leadership and team building is “psychological safety”: the challenge of making it okay for all team members to feel comfortable to say what they’re really thinking and feeling. Knowing that I’d just released the How To Build Winning Teams trilogy, Training Journal asked me to write an […]
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February 5, 2024
New Article in Irish Tech News
Irish Tech News magazine asked me to pen an article on common team building problems (and their solutions). It appeared on 22 December 2023. The three problems were (1) Missing behaviours (2) Not enough commitment (3) Wrongly choosing to act as a team. Here’s the link to the article: Team Building, How To Build Winning […]
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February 2, 2024
New Article in Elite Business Magazine
Elite Business magazine asked me to write an article for team leaders to help them figure out what makes their teammates tick so they can be more skilful at motivating their individual colleagues. The article came out on 18 January 2024 and drew on content from Book 2 of my new trilogy, How To Build […]
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January 15, 2024
Fast Company – Article on Apollo 13 & Shared Leadership
This is an article I wrote for Fast Company magazine about shared leadership. It explains how real teams share leadership, that they’re always not dominated by a single leader – even under the most testing conditions including emergencies. I use the extraordinary rescue of Apollo 13 to illustrate my point with six examples of NASA’s […]
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January 10, 2024
A New Article in Maddyness Magazine
An article all about creating trust and psychological safety in your team, published in Maddyness, the go-to magazine for entrepreneurs and innovators. My article was titled "How to create a team climate where everyone says what they're really hinking and feeling"
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January 2, 2024
New Article in SME Magazine
There’s only 9 days to go before release of my trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again. Meanwhile, here’s an article I wrote for SME magazine on team building: “How to build a winning team in three steps“. To see my previous published articles, visit my News page.
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December 4, 2023
Article in People Management
As part of the countdown to the 11th January 2024 release of my trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, People Management magazine asked me to write an article explaining why there are so few genuine teams at the top of companies.
They published it on 27 November 2023, titling it, “Are egos and ignorance stopping executives from working in teams?”
I drew the content from Book One of the trilogy. Just click the link above to read more.
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Article in Forbes Magazine
Forbes magazine asked me to contribute to an article titled How To Thaw The “Frozen Middle” Of Management. It appeared online on 28 November 2023.
Here’s a link to it: How To Thaw The “Frozen Middle” Of Management.
The author opened the article by posing this question: To succeed, organizations need their middle managers to be dynamic individuals, with an appetite for constant learning, who continually strive to inspire others. So, how can they thaw their ‘frozen middle’ if they have one?
She suggested five approaches and mine was the fourth: Create dissatisfaction with the status quo. Why not have a read and let me know your thoughts. Do you agree?
James Scouller
By the way, if you liked the “frozen” image, it was by Valentin Salja on Unsplash
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December 1, 2023
NEWSTALK Radio Interview
On Saturday 25 November, in the run up to the release of my team building trilogy, How To Build Winning Teams Again And Again, on 11 January 2024, I was interviewed on Bobby Kerr’s Down to Business show on NewsTalk in Ireland. The fast-paced interview – which on this occasion was led by stand-in host Emmet Oliver – ranged over several team building topics. It lasted 13 minutes. You can listen to it on the link below. Let me know what you think…
The Importance of Team Building with James Scouller on NewsTalk Radio
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