Team development is a process, not an event. If you are looking for a quick fix to your team’s issues, this process is not for you. The following four steps create long lasting change and improvement in performance, and require ongoing commitment and follow-through from you and your team members. 1. Get Crystal Clear Your…
If you are like most leaders today, you and your teams are being asked to do more and more with less and less, every day. You not only have to do more, but you often have to do more, faster, with fewer resources including a shrinking budget. And as a result, never has leadership that…
If you and your team are like most teams out there you have been running at full speed all year doing your best to tackle challenges that come your way and meet your team and organizational goals. Whatever your goals for 2017, your team can’t reach them if it is running on empty. When we…
I am always in search of stories of exceptional leaders and the practices that make them special. I’m referring to everyday leaders, not the ones that get the headlines and write the books. Some of them come, I confess, from eavesdropping as did the one I discovered at a reception. It was during a harsh…
Imagine trying to win the Grand Prix with less than a fine tuned engine. And yet that is not unlike what many leaders do every day. In fact, they often try to be the first to the finish line with an engine that sputters. Henry Ford was someone who knew engines and realized that he not…
This month K&Co.’s President, Nicole Bendaly, and Founder, Leslie Bendaly, were special guests on the popular Toronto based radio show Career Buzz with host Mark Franklin. The interview with the mother-daughter team looked at their career history plus discussed how and why Leslie launched the team performance company. Host Mark Franklin led a very interesting chat which…
Broken windows is a theory in criminology that suggests that if you let little things go they become bigger ones. The theory is based on the observation that the existence of broken windows in a neighbourhood frequently is found in association with other signs of general social fragmentation and disorder, such as property neglect, disrepair,…
Essential Leadership Practices If morale is low, if there is conflict within the team, if team members are having difficulty communicating, or if you find the team isn’t quite ‘gelling’, it is often because the team has not taken time to explore the behaviours and practices essential to the team’s performance, and just as importantly,…
Watch our latest webinar, 5 Steps to High Performance Teams, and gain a proven process and practical tools for taking your teams to higher levels of performance. Based on over 25 years of research and work with teams around the world, you will learn: What most teambuilding processes lack. What an effective team…
K&Co. Founder and well-known author Leslie Bendaly was recently interviewed by The HR Gazette magazine on here career journey, new book and her thoughts on how to create better, more cohesive teams. Here’s the scoop: Leslie Bendaly is one of Canada’s most respected thinkers and practitioners in areas of organizational leadership, teamwork and change. Leslie’s books…
