The Conversation Continues: Building Productivity Through Conversation

In a world moving as a fast as ours, who doesn’t wish they could just snap their fingers and create more collaboration, innovation, and productivity within their teams? Even if you tried to streamline the process and assemble all your top performers into one team, this does not guarantee you a productive team.

Why?

Productive teams don’t get to the next level simply by increasing proficiency on an individual level. Team success relies on the ability to collaborate and work together as a unit.

So how, as a leader, do you build this type of fruitful unity?

You have the conversations.

At the helm of every productive team are leaders who take the time to coach, confront, solicit perspectives, and have all the necessary conversations to develop those who they lead.They’re tireless in their quest to be a resource and realize that individual strength means very little if the collective is failing.

What conversations are you having to make your teams stronger?

This piece was originally posted on March 14, 2013 by Jaime Navarro. The conversation is still around how to best build productive teams…What do you think?