Managers and Team Leaders: Are you struggling to get your people to work together more productively?

Are you frustrated with the quarreling, turf wars, and endless delays in decision making in your workplace?

Are you a manager or team leader—executive, manager, front line supervisor, technical manager, or project manager, etc. — who realizes that excellence is a journey, not a destination, but are:

	Frustrated and emotionally drained with the constant challenge of transforming your workplace and repairing and improving damaged relationships with coworkers, customers, suppliers, and bosses?
	Struggling to get some managers and workers to change their old tactics and dysfunctional behavior?
	Discouraged because you have technically sharp people who want to do good work, but tend rub each other the wrong way and have difficulty communicating and cooperating to achieve mutual goals?

Going to work really shouldn’t be a pain in the rear. An enjoyable and productive workplace is one where people communicate effectively, cooperate in achieving common goals, and commit to doing what’s necessary to get results. People enjoy working where they are challenged to use and improve their skills, and where they are recognized and rewarded for doing good work. It seems pretty straightforward, doesn’t it?

So why do organizations struggle with creating and achieving excellence in their workplace?

Because most organizations are so caught up in the daily grind that they overlook their opportunities to transform their workplaces into centers of excellence. They get caught up in getting through the crisis of the day instead of addressing the real causes of their problems or preventing problems in the future. Although they have good intentions, they don’t know how to put out the fires and get their people to work together more productively.

Consequently, people get frustrated. Instead of working together as a team, they promote their own agendas, protect their own turf, and resist change. In some cases, cynicism sets in and drags the rest of the organization down.

Promoting excellence in your workplace starts with transforming your mindset and the mindset of your people.

To achieve and maintain excellence, you must change how you think about your work processes, your people, and the results you want to achieve. You must transform your workplace on three levels: personal, interpersonal, and systemic. You must change how people think about themselves, how they interact with each other, and how your work systems support or impede the achievement of excellence.

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