The formula for building a winning team is pretty much the same, no matter your field of play. On the football field or in the office, teams need a mix of strong technical skills and excellent soft skills (like good communication and solid decision making) in order to drive results.Cultivating a team like this — with the fundamentals necessary to perform at a high caliber in every situation — requires maintaining a high-level view of team performance and individual skills. As a leader, it’s crucially important that you understand the capacity of your team to perform effectively.  This means knowing where your team members shine, where there are gaps, and where there are opportunities to grow individual and collective knowledge and skills in order to increase the team’s performance capacity.Here at Success Labs, we use the Team Capacity Matrix to track important fundamentals in key skill and functional areas.

Leaders have to be confident decision makers, but making the right decision in today’s volatile, quickly-changing landscape can be overwhelming. Gloria is sharing a 5-step process that breaks down difficult decisions, leading you to a strong plan of action.

We are entering Q4 of 2022, and the new year will be here before we know it. Is your team prepared to conquer the challenges and opportunities that 2023 will offer? Have you begun to process and reflect on lessons learned in 2022? If the answer is no, right now is the perfect time to start.

Great feedback is much more than correcting or criticizing. It’s an important tool for helping your people grow, develop, and add value to the organization. Read on for a few tips from Melissa on how to provide positive, constructive feedback that helps your team members achieve their full potential.

Our consultants are sharing People Strategy tips that are designed to help you Grow Leaders, Build Teams, and Drive Results at your organization. Today Melissa Thompson is diving into the competency of Giving Feedback.

As a leader, it’s valuable to understand how individual personalities drive performance and contribute to a solid team culture. MBTI personality assessments are a good tool to help people get in touch with who they are as contributors, team members, and emerging leaders. This understanding accelerates growth, and allows your people to thrive in their roles and careers.

Change is a constant, in life and in business. Great leaders inspire trust, even when the forces of volatility and uncertainty are rocking their business. Read on for some tips from Devin on how to lead a team confidently in times of change, with resources to help you use change and ambiguity as momentum for growth.

With an aging customer and employee base, rapidly evolving government regulations and fluctuating business models, the health care industry is very much a VUCA environment — volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous.

A good leader strives to make their people feel valued and respected, every day. People Strategy isn’t just about performance and deliverables… it’s about leading a team that works well together and individually, lifts each other up, and supports each other through challenges. Demonstrating compassion is a key way to develop these important traits on your team. Read on for tips that will help you cultivate a spirit of compassion in your leadership.

We’re seeing an unprecedented wave of movement among early- and mid-career employees. Normally companies start the process of developing people when they are ready to be promoted – but timelines are moving up, and people are moving into leadership positions earlier in their careers. In order to build the strongest future for your organization, it’s time to re-think your succession planning by investing in early career employees.

Baton Rouge is a fantastic incubator for the young professionals and emerging leaders of the Gulf South. Our Leadership Development Intern, Victoria Funes, is busy navigating the college and early career landscape while networking and gaining key industry experience… and now she’s sharing her perspective and advice with fellow Capitol-area young leaders.

For emerging leaders, learning from the people who’ve been there and done that is an invaluable part of development. In our Leadership Talk series, we’re sharing nuggets of wisdom from community leaders who have forged paths, overcome challenges, and set the stage for the next generation of people-centered leaders.

No one likes to initiate a difficult conversation… but a key aspect of leadership is managing these conversations in a way that avoids conflict, and resolves the issue at hand. As a trainer with expertise in communication, emotional intelligence, and talent development, Melissa has a few steps you can use to map out a ‘difficult conversation’ plan, so that the conversation wraps up with a constructive, positive outcome.

Our consultants are sharing People Strategy tips that are designed to help you Grow Leaders, Build Teams, and Drive Results at your organization. Today Melissa Thompson is diving into how to Have Difficult Conversations.