High-Impact Teams

When you exert candor in your communication, you encourage others to do the same. Candid communication allows you to both give and get the information you need to improve your team performance and professional growth.

Leaders today need to do more than respond and pivot. They need to think five years ahead to keep up. It’s why at Ferrazzi Greenlight, we created the Go Forward to Work research community in partnership with Harvard Business School to stay plugged into emerging business trends

This chapter and video will teach us to be more effective and delivering feedback and elevate the principle of feedback.

The future of work arrived out of nowhere on the back of a once-in-a-century pandemic. We’ve all been forced to rapidly and radically adapt to new working norms. But I don’t see this as a momentary blip. We have an opportunity to reboot, and ask what it means to help each other perform better.

The shift to virtual teams doesn't make this work any harder, and may, in fact, make some aspects of change easier. Let's look at the co-elevating traits that underpin great teams, along with some high-return practices to sustain these traits.

Keith has taken 20+ years of experience coaching executive teams and invested 2 million dollars in research to identify exactly what differentiates the greatest leaders from the rest of pack. The best day to enact change widespread across your company was yesterday, the second best day is today, so get moving!

Breathtaking advances in science and exponential technological innovation bloom all around us, making our lives better and easier. And yet there are people at all levels of organizations who feel fatigued, fretful, and even beaten down at work.

A co-elevating community is a group of individuals who come together, who commit to going higher together. To commit on some idea as a group to elevate each other and the mission at hand.

Co-elevation, if I think of all the things that I've done and our organization has worked on, deeply proud of the work we've done. But I do believe that one of the greatest lasting legacies will be the introduction of a word. But not just the introduction of a word, but the introduction of a new way of being.

Leadership - We give more time and energy to resistors of Change. This time we will make it as Initiative.

Speaking up - This is the greatest eroders of Shared Business Value is conflict avoidance. There are a number of practices where individuals gain the courage during a meeting to speaks the truth.

Leadership - Stamping out conflict avoidance and focusing on fluid candor in executive team meetings and in dialogues among executives is crucial to any transformation.

Leadership - There are significant movement of change it is the unleashing of individual quality movement. It should be led by a People!

One of the unintended consequences of the constant right-sizing and flattening of our organizations is that we now live in a world where managers just don’t have time to do all that’s required of them in their daily jobs, let alone find time for coaching their employees.

Remote teams—ones made up of people in different physical locations—are on the rise.

How did Colin end the feet-dragging that had stalled the change he was brought on board to finish? Not by telling the team what leadership wanted them to achieve, but by changing how the team did things.

Keith hosts the Whiffenpoofs and share some of his wisdom and congratulate the talented group as they sing along to various songs.‍

Keith gives a challenge talk to Catamaran issuing the challenge to the team on how they have individually contributed to Catamaran difference.

How you write your advertising copy will be based on where you will place your ad. If it’s a billboard ad, you’ll need a super catchy headline and simple design due to the speed at which people will pass. Online ads are similar.

Albert Einstein once said, “If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.”

We’ve all been there: trapped in pointless meetings where participants are afraid to speak honestly. We twiddle our thumbs through diplomatic PowerPoint presentations, waiting for the meeting to end so that the real conversations—which usually happen in private—can begin.

Revenue growth demands that every level of your organization -- from the CEO to the sales force -- be competitive in the art and skill of relationship building

Whether your goal is to sell more widgets or make more friends, you'll be more successful the quicker you can connect with people. And of course, the more intimate the connection, the better.