How Your Team Dynamics are Holding Your Company Back When you become a leader inside an organization, there is enormous pressure for you to succeed. After all, your success translates into success for your company. So, you start investing in yourself. You consider your leadership style: fine tune your strengths and manage your weaknesses. You…

Stan is a solid employee. He’s cheerful, does his job with attention to detail, and gets along with everyone. It came as a surprise then, to see this change in attitude when the company started working on their turnaround plan. In meetings, he started shooting down people’s ideas, calling them negative, and taking personal offense…

A sales professional was telling me recently about her work environment, which was fast becoming negative because of restructuring due to the economy. Searching for ways to explain what was happening she said, “Before we were open – sharing, conversing, bouncing ideas off each other. And then things changed. It’s like we shut down. The…

By: Patrick Davidson, General Manager, Orchid Chelsea and Orchid Memphis Many of the divisions at Orchid have been working on developing better intrapersonal and interpersonal communication and team health over the last few years.  We work with an outside coach, Mark Freier, from Nexecute – a company built to help organizations grow on both the…