Resources for Improving Teams and Leaders

The Definition of a Team

The term team gets thrown around a lot. Everyone seems to want to be on a team (for good reason, as it has been proven that teams out perform individuals). This designation seems to be placed on every group, but is every group really a team?

The Different Levels of Leadership – Are You Ready?

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What kind of leader are you? Are you a leader who serves or a leader who takes?

Leveraging Culture with Strategy—a Game Changer

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Team strategy and team culture – which is more important?

Engagement Goes a Long Way — It Starts with the Leader

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Does your team seem engaged?

Is a Team Always the Best Option?

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Do you sometimes get frustrated when you feel forced to work together? Do you fear working alone? Do you and your team know how to deal with these two situations?

Is Being a Great Leader Really Just About Being Yourself?

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What if the subject of leadership is really not complex at all? What if it is as simple as being yourself? What if it is no more complex than being the best self you can be?

3 Decision-Making Questions All Great Leaders Should Ask

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As leaders we face thousands of choices each day (and many before 10:00am!). These choices will ultimately determine the direction and level of success of our organizations.

What is the “Reality” of Your Leadership?

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Assess the reality of your leadership. Do you know yourself? Do you know your team? Lead well, utilizing your strengths, without changing who you are.

Questions From: “Should Leadership Be Random?”

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How might we change the idea that choosing a leader means “declaring one person as better than the group”?

5 Essential Team Skills – Introduction

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I challenge you to identify the area in which your team is strongest and the area in which there is the most room for growth. Talk about it together. Then, check back each week as we tackle these topics one a time!

Team Essentials Part 1 – Celebration

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Celebration shows appreciation. It acknowledges, out loud, the value found in people, and people need to feel valued. Celebration brings life.

Team Essentials Part 2 – Encouragement

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Four things to remember as you focus on encouragement within your team.

Team Essentials Part 3 – Communication

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Communication is a broad topic, and much too big to tackle in one blog. However, if your team is struggling to communicate well, the following tips are a good place to start.

Team Essentials Part 4 – Problem-Solving

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There will always be problems to solve and teams that do so effectively have a distinct advantage. Here are 6 things to remember when solving problems as a team.

Team Essentials Part 5 – Trust

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If your team is not strong, healthy, and fulfilling, a lack of trust could be a primary cause. This week, apply one or more of the tips mentioned in this blog.

Keeping the Bucket Full: The Importance of Shared Vision

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Ever been in a meeting with your peers? You catch up on the weekend first, then the agenda items start rolling. Then your meeting is hit with a needed decision.

One on One: The Power of Mentoring

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Mentoring is an important relationship for anyone who is looking to grow as a leader. There are two ways for you to get involved: 1) have a mentor and 2) be a mentor.

Positive Culture

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Creating a safe environment is essential for any organization to make progress. It’s not difficult, but it does require intentionality and discipline.

Pass the Baton

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Recognize that you are not the same person as your delegate. You may discover you were never the best person to do the task in the first place.

Creating Community – An Introduction

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Do you view your team as a community? Are you intentionally and proactively investing time and resources in making your community healthy?

Creating Community: Part 1 – Powerful Purpose

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“Why do you do what you do?” Whenever I ask people this question, I am always intrigued by the myriad of responses that I get.

Creating Community Part 2 – Time Together

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As the leader, if you will commit to being intentional, you can begin to create a culture of Time Together.

Creating Community Part 3 – Sacrificial Service

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There is an almost unmatchable sense of community to be achieved by doing something meaningful and sacrificial together.

Creating Community Part 4 – Challenge to Change

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A focus on becoming the best you can be will bring your team together in ways you have never seen before and set success squarely in your path.

Creating Community Part 5 – Corporate Celebration

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Unlock the power of corporate celebration! Explore how fostering a culture of celebration can boost morale and productivity in your workplace.

Creating Community Part 6 – Perilous Pitfalls

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Beware the community disruptor: perilous pitfalls. Learn to navigate entitlement, dependency, boundaries, and conflict in team building.

Leadership is . . . Part 1

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Where are you in your leadership journey? What are you holding on to that is no longer serving you well? Where do you need to ask for help?

Leadership is . . . Part 2

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What is your current level of excitement as a leader? Take a moment to rate yourself in this area.

Leadership is . . . Part 3

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Do you see yourself as a servant first?

The Importance of Reflection

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What do you want to start, stop, and continue doing as it relates to your personal and professional lives?

5 Tips for Building a Lasting Legacy

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Do you ever think about investing in your legacy? I wonder if I am having a positive impact upon those with whom I come into contact every day.

Shape Your Culture with Unique Essentials

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Guided by TRUTH; AUTHENTIC; GROWTH Always; LOVE One Another — these are what we at WinShape Teams call our Unique Essentials.

How’s Your Focus?

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As a photographer, I pay more attention to images than your average person. I often wonder how the photographer created the image?

Team Healing: How to Improve Your Team’s Health in 3 Ways

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Teams often “feel badly” and as leaders, we often jump right in and suggest or try different techniques to help our teams get to a healthier place.

Stepping into Change: The Power of Empathy in Leadership

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Putting yourself in another person’s shoes can totally alter perspective when considering change.

Effective Leaders – No Title Needed

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I have had the wonderful blessing and privilege of serving on a team that has produced some amazing leaders.

Retreating with Purpose

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Last week, our staff abandoned ship. We blocked out nearly a week, during which we put client interaction on hold.

Why Your Job Description is Incomplete

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Whatever your occupation, your primary job description tells an incomplete story.

Co-Workers to Community—Start Here

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Whether you are a leader or a team member, there are practical steps you can take to begin building community in your team.

Organizational Culture By Design

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How do you change a culture? This is a complex issue with multi-faceted solutions. Each organization or team will face both common and unique challenges.

A Change in Course

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An analogy that fairly accurately sums up corporate culture is in the comparison of two boats: a brand new ski boat and a massive, well-used tanker.

Overcoming Team Tension

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Have you ever been in a situation in which someone on your team has rubbed you the wrong way?

Lead Self: 5 Questions to Align Your Actions with Your Priorities

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Most leadership development takes an outward approach. However, before any of us can lead others effectively, we must be able to lead ourselves. Leadership is a journey, and the tank needs to be full before you hit the road.

Finding Perspective: 4 Tips for Dealing with Dysfunction in Teams

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Building a team is hard work. Be careful not to waste effort climbing mountains that don’t really exist. Maybe all you need is a little perspective.

Who > What

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Having the right co-travelers can help your team avoid future conflict and will build the overall strength of your team.

The Questioning Leader

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Do you ask enough questions; or do you do most of the talking when a team member comes to you for help? A great question can be one of a leader’s best tools in almost any situation.

Reaching New Heights: Lessons in Teamwork from the Blue Angels

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Team life moves quickly and there is often little room for error. How do you succeed when the stakes are at their highest?

Servant Leadership + Emotional Intelligence

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Combining servant leadership and emotional intelligence can be a game changer for creating an authentic environment that propels a team to high performing.

Expanding Perspective: 4 Steps To Better Working Relationships

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Teams and leadership, at their core, are really all about relationships. However, a key limiter of authentic working relationships can be personal perspective. Everyone has a perspective, a lens through which we view every conversation, decision, project, and person...

4 Steps to Consider for Healthier Teaming

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4 basic points that we’ve been reflecting on: things you may wish to consider as you work to craft healthy and effective teams...

Answers Add Value

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As a leader, asking better questions will enable you to lead your team more effectively; but what about when you are asked the questions?

Making Tough Decisions

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It is your responsibility as the leader to make tough decisions. Once the decision is made, go with it. Our teams need us to be decisive in order to lead them well.

Identifying the Leaders of the Next Generation

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The best producers won’t necessarily be the best leaders. What criteria should be used to select the right people for leadership opportunities?

Facing the Challenge of Change

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Successful leaders embrace change, focus on opportunities, serve others, and find courage in fear.

4 Ways to Create Value for Your Team

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Great teams are built of individuals who give their best for the collective good; in doing so, they push others to do the same.

Lead Self: Start Where You Are

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Fear can rob us of enthusiasm and fill us with apathy, causing procrastination and a lack of desire. So how do we find forward momentum again?

Fully-Prepared Leadership Takes Practice

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Life sometimes demands immediate use of your leadership skills, whether you’re ready or not.

Mourn Together

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The ability to share another team member’s mourning is often the true indicator of a deeply connected and unified team.

Finding Consensus Develops Your Team

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Consensus involves toiling through the different points of view and agreeing, as a team, to move forward in a unified direction.

Gather to Grow: The Benefits of Organizational Gatherings

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A change of pace and a change of place equals a change in perspective. Could a change in perspective benefit your organization?

Take The Plunge: Overcoming Fear of the Unknown

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Facing the new and untried and can bring anxiety, but sometimes these simple steps can make the unknown less intimidating.

Meaning in the Mundane

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When you find yourself on a mental treadmill, stuck in the mundane, try these three things to bring meaning to the mundane.

Community: Make It Personal

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Here are four disciplines to consider as you embark on or continue the journey of building strong community.

A Retake On Cultivating Growth

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Questions to ask yourself to ensure that your team members are as effective and fulfilled tomorrow as they are today.

Enriching the Lives of Others: Practice Adding Value

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Adding value to others occurs at the intersection of someone’s need and our ability to meet the need. Practice identifying the greatest needs of others and applying your effort to meeting those needs. You will undoubtedly find that as they are enriched, you are as well.

Failing With Purpose: Failing Forward

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Great leaders don't give failure the power to negatively drive the future; instead, they used it to bring clarity to future efforts.

Initiating Action As A Leader

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Learning from the courageous leadership of Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel in Space.

Owning Your Role

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Consider these steps to take ownership and bring clarity to your roles at work, home, and other sphere's of influence.

Designing A Plan For Personal Growth

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Like anything else, learning and growing happen best when you design a plan. But what does planning look like when it comes to personal growth?

Combating Loneliness in the Workplace

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Russ Sarratt walks through four components of combating loneliness at work with intentional community.

Empowered by Experience

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In today's world, we can no longer differentiate our teams by knowledge alone; the greater advantage is real life experience.

Embracing Challenge

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Embracing challenge is not only the willingness to do what's hard, but the posture of seeking to grow from it.

Rhythms of Personal Growth

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Creating rhythms of personal growth can ensure a more sustainable effort with more effective and fulfilling results.

A Lesson in Leadership from Mountain Biking

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Our takeaways on leadership from an experience learning to Mountain Bike. Rusty Chadwick walks through four steps to leading others towards success.

The Most Powerful Word In Leadership

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Jesse Parrish walks through two types of leadership bias and explains how using one vital word can improve the way you lead.

Improve Your Impact As A Manager

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Eric Cone walks through his experience discovering one vital skill that made his management count.

What Dutch Bros Coffee Taught Us About Culture

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Workplace culture is both powerful and dynamic. It is impacted every day by your behaviors and attitudes. Rusty Chadwick shares his observations of the culture he experienced at Dutch Bros Coffee, and explores ways that you can create a more vibrant and life-giving culture in your workplace no matter your role.

What To Do When You Experience Leadership Fatigue

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Russ Sarratt shares his approach to resetting and refueling his leadership.

Combatting “Urgency” In The Holiday Season

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Jesse Parrish offers a reminder on how to prioritize what's truly important for your holiday season.

Story-Goal Writing

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Long-lasting goals that lead us towards real, sustainable change need one dynamic component: a story. Download this free guide and strengthen your goals with story writing. Written by Emotional Intelligence Coach, Dr. Chris Auger. Edited by Jordan Epperson.

3 Steps to Knowing Your Wake

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Knowing your wake is an important step to understanding the influence and impact you have on those around you. Here's 3 easy things you can do today.

4 Questions For The Coaching Leader

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Asking these four questions could make the difference between struggle and success for someone you lead.

Are Staff Conferences Worth The Cost?

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Hosting a yearly staff conference can come with a sizable ticket price. Is it really worth the cost? We asked our Senior Director, Russ Sarratt.

4 Tactics to Strengthen Your Personal Development

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Typically, personal development is viewed as a category of life. But what if it was more of a lens?

Creating Organizational Culture

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We interviewed our Senior Manager of Training and Development about creating organizational culture across an entire organization.

Building Belief to Change Behavior

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To change the culture and environment around you, you have to change key behaviors. Other people cannot see your beliefs, but they will see your behaviors.

Active Listening: What Do You Hear?

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Active listening can help deepen relationships and promote a flourishing workplace. It invites deeper engagement and creates an atmosphere in which people willingly bring more of their thoughts, passions, and energy.

The Power of Rest

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We interviewed Emily Katherine Dalton, WinShape College Program's Assistant Coordinator of Discipleship Intensives about the importance of rest and mindfulness.

Leading the Pack: Where Are You Most Needed?

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Servant leaders position themselves to serve in the best interests of the team. Are you leading from the right place?

A Facilitator’s Guide to Effective Meetings

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Develop your ability to lead fruitful meetings as a high-reward opportunity for you to add value to your team and organization.

Choosing Optimism When You Are Overwhelmed

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Explores the idea of choosing optimism to overcome overwhelming problems by remembering your preferred future, reframing your problem, getting support, and celebrating progress.

Better People Make Better Teams

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There is one simple and timeless truth: better people make better teams. If you want a better team, become a better person. Here's how →

The Power of Team Culture

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Team Culture has the power to affect how everyone on that team shows up. Take a look at how to build a thriving Team Culture →

What is Adventure Racing?

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What is Adventure Racing? Adventure Racing is an international phenomenon designed to test your endurance, outdoorsmanship, and teamsmanship skills!

For the Team

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The first episode of our Teams Made Well documentary series follows the 6-time World Championship Adventure Racing Team, Team Avaya, and how this high-performing team continues to win race after race on the world stage.

Lead by Reinventing Through COVID-19

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With the current crisis of COVID-19 sweeping the globe, leaders are having to reinvent their self, systems and processes, and structure. Read more →

Virtual Development Experience for Teams

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Time together is essential to any community, even if it can’t always be in person.

The “Unseen” Hero Behind Chick-fil-A’s Success: Jeannette M. Cathy

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Trudy Cathy White Shares the Story of Her Mother, Jeannette Cathy

The High-Performing Teams Blueprint and Keys to Success

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Download the free High-Performing Teams Blueprint eBook. Enjoy unparalleled levels of productivity and a fulfilling sense of community.

How to Create Clarity and Improve Workplace Communication

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If you desire to increase employee engagement, results, and initiative in your organization, prioritize creating clarity in your leadership journey.

What is Grit and How Can You Develop It?

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The question is not whether someone has grit or not. The question is, will that person exercise it, develop it, and cultivate it into a personal strength?

3 Ways a Coach Can Help Boost Your Performance

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There are numerous benefits of having a coach. A coach can help you move from where you are to where you want to be. Learn more →

You Are Here: 4 Steps to Assess Your Reality as a Leader and Chart a Path Forward

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It is impossible to determine the right path forward if you don’t know where you are right now. Here are 4 steps to assess your reality as a leader and chart a path forward. Learn more →

Diving Beneath the Surface: How To Seek Understanding From Others

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Seeking to understand will help you pull the counsel of others to the surface. Here are 5 ways to better understand others, plus a few barriers you may need to overcome. Learn more →

How To Think, Dream, Believe, And Dare For A Better Future

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Create a vision of the future that addresses your current reality and draws you to a preferred future. Change the world around you for the better. Learn more →

Is Your Leadership Serving Those Who Follow You?

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We can learn from great leaders who have gone before us and share with those who come after us. What should you master first for greatest impact?

Recognition: If You See It, Say It!

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Everyone desires recognition. It boosts trust, happiness, and employee engagement. Are you recognizing the individuals on your team in ways they'll feel truly known?

The Emotional Intelligence eBook

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Get the free guide on how you can use emotional intelligence to work more effectively with your team. Written by emotional intelligence coach, Dr. Chris Auger.

Emotional Intelligence: A Path to Full, Whole, Healthy Leadership

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EQ impacts every relationship you have, at work and at home. But what does it mean to be emotionally intelligent? Our coaches dive into this important topic in a 5-part series. This is part 01 of 05.

How Your Self-Awareness Leads to More Fulfillment

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Higher self-awareness and emotional intelligence can lead to healthier relationships, more happiness, and higher income. Our coaches dive into this important topic in a 5-part series. This is part 02 of 05.

How to Take Criticism Well and Manage Your Emotions

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If you don’t understand how to lead your emotions, it becomes extremely hard for those around you to know where you are coming from. Our coaches dive into this important topic in a 5-part series. This is part 03 of 05.

How to Understand The Emotional Needs of Others

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Understanding ourselves on a higher level positions us to be more empathetic towards others. Our coaches dive into this important topic in a 5-part series. This is part 04 of 05.

How to Use Your Emotional Intelligence to Help Others

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Are you serving others well? If you are looking for guidance in moving your EQ to higher and more effective levels, we can help. Our coaches dive into this important topic in a 5-part series. This is part 05 of 05.

How to Evaluate and Hire Top Talent

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Selecting top talent is critical for creating high-performing teams and organizations that will generate greater results. Through understanding the Four C’s of Talent, you can minimize the chances of hiring a “bad fit” and maximize your ability to select top talent.

Great Leaders Are Different

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What is the difference between a good leader and a great leader? How do you take your leadership to the next level? Start here.

The Key to a Thriving, Successful Team is YOU

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Building a successful team takes work. It’s hard. But teams can be life-giving communities and powerful tools for the achievement of great things. And it all starts with you.

OKRs for Teams: One Simple Framework to Help Your Team Deliver Meaningful Results

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Learn how to leverage OKRs for Teams: a goal-setting tool that can help align your team’s strategic objectives and measure their outcomes.

Three Ways to Lead Yourself Better This Year

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Discover how some small changes can lead to a year of growth and satisfaction.

How to Unlock Your Full Potential as a Team Member

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Discover the one mindset shift that leads to greater self-awareness on your leadership journey.

Two Components of a Team Made Well

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In order for your team to be sustainably successful, two things must occur. Discover how these two simple components can help your team become healthy and fulfilling.

The Performance Leak Keeping You From Your Goals

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If you want to see visible progress in your life, you first need to address the performance leak holding you back from your potential.

3 Myths Preventing Team Breakthrough

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High-performing teams and leaders are intentional about creating space for their next team breakthrough by retreating from the day-to-day activities, reflecting on where they've been, and dreaming about the future.

The Servant Leadership eBook

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Get the free guide on the most effective leadership approach: Servant Leadership. Author Joseph Cook dives deep into servant leadership and how you can become more effective at work, at home, and in your community.

3 Benefits of Creating Focus

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Creating a path through all of the world’s chaos is becoming increasingly harder and harder. However, it is possible with intentionality, discipline, and consistency over time. Find out how increasing your focus can help transform your life.

The Easiest Way to Build Trust with Followers

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Trust is an essential component of a healthy team, but it can be difficult to develop within team members. Discover a few practical ways you can build trust with the followers on your team.

How to Prevent Silos in Your Organization

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Silos are a common problem among organizations today and there is nothing more deadly than isolating yourself or your team from the collective unit. Discover five practical steps for preventing silos in your organization.

Feedback is a Gift

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Helping your team view feedback as a gift will pay dividends for team culture and overall performance.

How Micro-Adjustments Can Lead to a Major Impact

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Discover how making small changes or micro-adjustments over time can lead to accomplishing some of your biggest goals and dreams.

How to Get Better Results by Building Relationships

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Striving to achieve the best results possible while strengthening the relationships on your team can be challenging. Discover four ways to get the results you're looking for by building relationships.

The Power of Purpose

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Uncovering the answer to one question can help you discover your purpose and in turn, reach your goals more effectively.

Lifelong Learning: The Key to Success on Your Leadership Journey

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To reach your long-term goals as a leader, you must first understand how to embrace lifelong learning.

7 Ways to Create Healthier Work-Life Boundaries

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It's almost impossible for you to win at both home and work. With a few boundaries though, you may be able to find a healthy work-life balance.

Promoting Safety: The Secret to Increasing Trust and Innovation

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Creating a safe environment for your team can take a long time to build, but only moments to destroy. Uncover four ways to promote safety on your team today.

How Servant Leaders Can Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Get your work done more efficiently and effectively by becoming a servant leader with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Why Self-Awareness is Just Information without Application

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In order to maximize the impact of increased self-awareness, you must understand how to apply the information first.

How to Increase the Impact of Your Gratitude

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Any attitude of gratitude, contentment, and thankfulness is beneficial, but there is an opportunity to increase the power of your gratitude in the lives of others.

3 Ways to Improve Your Team Culture

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If you're not intentionally trying to improve your team culture, it may be eroding without you even knowing it. Find out three ways to start improving your culture today.

The Gift Guide for Growth-Minded Team Members

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It may require some extra effort or intentionality, but giving gifts can go a long way towards showing appreciation to your co-workers.

One Question to Reflect on at the End of the Year

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As the year comes to a close, now is the time to look back and reflect on all that has taken place.

Retreating Together to Accomplish More eBook

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Download the free eBook on the main benefits of retreats and how they can be a difference-maker for you and your team.

3 Tips to Help Remote Workers Contribute to a Healthy Team Culture

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Your work environments may have changed, but you can still prioritize a healthy team culture.

The Manager Guide to Leading a New Team

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Moving into a new role is a critical transition for managers that can oftentimes make or break their future success.

Leading vs. Managing: 4 Ways Leaders Set Themselves Apart

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Leading a group of people looks very different from just managing them.

Active Communication: 3 Ways to Improve as a Communicator

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Becoming an active communicator doesn’t have to be burdensome, it just takes an intentional shift in your posture to begin.

Using Humor in the Workplace to Increase Performance

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Humor in the workplace may seem distracting or even intimated, but it can actually lead to an increase in connection and trust.

How to Create a Personal Development Plan

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Take your career to the next level with the step-by-step guide of a personal development plan.

6 Meeting Norms to Run More Effective Meetings

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It's possible to no longer have unproductive or unnecessary meetings.

Blind Spots eBook

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Whether we like it or not, we've all got blind spots. The first step in improvement is to identify and uncover your specific blind spots as a leader.

4 Time Management Tips for Busy Leaders

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Managing a never-ending to-do list is exhausting. With these time management tips, a life of focus and fulfillment is possible.

2 Critical Components of a Healthy Team

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Help create a healthy team culture and strategy with only a few intentional steps.

4 Tips for Hiring Qualified Talent

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It can be challenging to find and hire top-tier talent in a competitive job market, but these tips can help you navigate the uncertainties that come with it.

Conflict Resolution: The Mindset Shift You Need to Start Seeing Conflict as an Asset

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Stop dreading or avoiding conflict and instead use it as a competitive advantage instead.

6 Communication Tools to Create a Healthier Team

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Create a workplace where communication helps establish a safe place for people to think creatively and express their ideas.

The Impact of Vulnerability on a Team

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Vulnerability is a key ingredient to creating a psychologically safe work environment.

4 Steps to Help You Deal with a Difficult Boss

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Having a difficult boss can be draining, but there are a few things you can do to help.

Creating Clarity: 5 Tips on Getting CLEAR

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Discover how to get clarity for yourself and provide it for your team.

Activity Cards for Teams

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Discover how activities can help transform a group of individuals into a team.

Embracing Transparency: The Importance of Being Honest With Your Team

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It may not be easy, but great leaders are willing to embrace transparency and accept the reality that they can’t possibly know what to do when faced with inconceivable situations.

Accountability: How to Hold Your Team Members Accountable

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Accountability may seem confusing or intimidating to do, but there are a few simple ways for you to get started.

The Crucial Role of Inspiration and How to Get It

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Inspiration can spark breakthrough ideas for both individuals and their teams. The key is to find out how to cultivate it.

A Practical Guide to Maximizing Your Next Development Event

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Tips for turning a conference or retreat into real change.

4 Tips on Having HARD Conversations

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Use these 4 practical tips for navigating difficult conversations with others.

How to Notice the Signs of Burnout

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If ignored, the signs of burnout can lead to unengaged employees, subpar performance, and lower-quality work.

How To Manage Employee Turnover

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Improve employee engagement and cultural health by learning how to manage turnover effectively.

The 12 Gifts of Christmas for Teams

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From our team to yours, a roundup of the 12 best holiday gifts to share with your favorite leader, teammate, or follower!

Organizational Culture: Create a Culture of Care

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People who experience a caring boss give more, do more and grow more. Kickstart a culture of care on your team with these four steps.

Most Improved Award: Workplace Goal Setting Tips

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Transform your career and enhance your company’s overall performance when you set and pursue quality goals.

The Importance of Boundaries and 3 Tips To Set Them

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Explore the importance of setting boundaries in the workplace and get tips for how to effectively communicate and establish boundaries with your leaders and teammates.

A Deep Dive on Joe Gibbs Racing Company Culture

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Peek under the hood at the organizational culture of the record-breaking pit crews of NASCAR powerhouse Joe Gibbs Racing.

How to Lead in the Project Economy

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Leaders and companies that foster collaboration and creativity are the ones that will succeed in this new era of the project economy.

Who will take your place? Organizational Succession Planning

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Being able to answer the question of "who will take your place?" can bring great clarity to the organizational succession planning process.

Building a Solid Foundation: 5 Steps to Establishing Core Values

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Establishing core values is essential for success. They provide a foundation for building a positive culture and help attract and retain top talent.

Making Change Stick: 3 Strategies for Lasting Transformation

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Whether we want to accept it or not, change is always present. We can fight against it or embrace it to make positive, lasting transformation in our lives.

Mastering Productivity: 5 Essential Cornerstones for Success

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Productivity is about achieving maximum output while minimizing effort and waste. This blog explores five cornerstones of productivity that are crucial in helping individuals and their teams stay focused, efficient, and effective.

Leading with Purpose: 3 Essential Time Management Tips for Maximizing Impact

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With a growing and highly talented team, it's a constant battle to manage the tension between micromanaging and taking a step back. How can you ensure that you maximize your time spent as a leader?

Ready, Set, PLAY! The Importance of Having Fun With Your Team

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The importance of play has been widely studied and is known to be a critical part of early childhood development. But the benefits of play aren't just for kids!

8 Benefits of Embracing Weekly Planning

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Since we cannot slow the world down, we must manage the time we have in a wise and productive way. Read on for 8 powerful benefits of making intentional planning time part of your weekly routine.

The Power of Effective Encouragement

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"How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they're breathing!" Encouragement is a powerful tool that, when used effectively, can benefit anyone! Follow these 3 simple steps to encourage others in a way that leaves a lasting, meaningful impact!

Adapting to Change as a Team: 16 Essential Steps for Navigating Transition Together

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Discover the key benefits, struggles, and a comprehensive framework for successfully adapting to change as a team in the post-Covid world.

Navigating The Leaders Journey: Your Guide to WinShape Teams Leadership Retreats

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In this blog, WinShape Teams Manager for Instructors, Joseph Cook, walks through the different phases of The Leader's Journey to help you decide where you are in your own journey and what the next step is to help get you to where you want to be.

The Power of Purposeful Work: Unlocking Employee Engagement

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Explore the impact of purposeful work and its role in boosting employee engagement. Learn how leaders can inspire and communicate purpose to drive fulfillment at work.

Resilience in Leadership: 10 Questions to Help You Overcome Burnout and Find Renewal

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Discover essential strategies for developing resilience in leadership. Overcome burnout and find renewal with actionable steps for sustainable success.

Putting the “I” Back in Team: The Significance of Personal Ownership on a Team

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"There's no 'I' in team!" Or is there? Healthy "teaming" is all about finding balance between individual ownership and dedication to the team. This blog discusses ways in which acknowledging the "I" in team can lead to more effective collaboration.

Tips for Thriving in a Multi-Generational Workforce in 2023

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Unlock the power of diversity in a multi-generational workforce. Learn to appreciate individuality, leverage perspectives, and foster collaboration for success.

WinShape Teams’ 2023 Holiday Gift Guide – Gift Ideas for Every Teammate!

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WinShape Teams wants to help you get your holiday shopping done early this year! Read on for gift options that will make any of your teammates smile this holiday season.

The Art of Celebrating Well: A Key Ingredient in Team Success

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Every human on the planet needs and wants to be celebrated. If you find yourself disagreeing with that statement, perhaps you haven't been celebrated in the right way. This blog walks through the importance of celebration and how to celebrate your team and their accomplishments in the most impactful way.

6 Assessments That Are Actually Worth Your Team’s Time and Money

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In an age where people define themselves by everything from their Enneagram number to their Hogwarts House, which assessments are actually worth your team's time and money? Read on for our picks.

WinShape Teams’ Chasing Faster: The Next Gen Pit Crew

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The second episode of our Teams Made Well documentary series follows the record-breaking pit crew at Joe Gibbs Racing as they faced challenges in the first season of utilizing NASCAR's Next Gen stock car.

3 Lessons Learned from a NASCAR Pit Crew

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Rev up your leadership with 3 NASCAR pit crew-inspired principles that will translate to success in any workplace!

What is Executive Coaching? WinShape Teams Coaching Unboxed

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What is executive coaching, and what makes WinShape Teams Coaching unique? Our Executive Coaches, Dr. Chris Auger and Charles Hooper, Jr., give an inside look at the experience.

The Great Balancing Act: 3 Tips for Working With Your Spouse

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Discover 3 tips from real co-working couples on how to successfully navigate the complexities of working with your spouse while maintaining a strong marriage.

Cultivating Agility in the Workplace

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Discover how to foster resilience and embrace agility in the workplace. In the modern workplace, agility isn't just a skill—it's a superpower.

Navigating Grief at Work

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A first for WinShape Teams! Check out this illustrated blog about navigating grief at work created by our own Programming Instructor, Naomi Fowler.

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