How Sur-Seal Became a Visual Organization

Mick Wilz, co-owner of Sur-Seal Corporation, began his own journey to personal and business excellence about five years ago by actively seeking a variety of tools to meet his needs and the needs of the business. He says, “My interest is to take tribal knowledge and make it visual and accessible to everyone.” Mick is Read More …

Simplify or Elaborate the Message in Virtual Teams

A renowned expert in the fields of remote collaboration, global teams, and managing wide-scale organizational change, Nancy Settle-Murphy is a popular author of articles, white papers, ezines and booklets. I asked Nancy about one of my struggles: Joe:  One of the struggles I always have is that when I communicate, I probably simplify things and Read More …

You Need More Than a Set of Goals

Great Business Teams author Howard Guttman was a guest in a past Business901 podcast and though the podcast was supposed to be about his latest book Coach Yourself to Win. In the midst of it all we had a unique discussion about virtual teams when I asked: Joe:  Many teams are not necessarily all in Read More …

Does Your Team Want to Be Extraordinary

Four patterns of extraordinary teams: Energized Connected Hopeful Changed I asked author Geoff Bellman that question in a past podcast. I also added, does a group have to have all of them to be extraordinary? Related Podcast and Transcription: Making Teams Extraordinary Geoff Bellman:  No, let me say a couple of things about them first. Read More …

What (Who) Influences you at Work?

You have to sit down and say, “This is what’s influencing me,” and look at your mental model. You have to see those influences and how you are handling it and recognize what’s happening to you in your situation, first, right? Can you give me an example of a couple of things you might tell Read More …