Winners of our online and Stockholm book draws
We are very pleased to announce two sets of book draw winners. We'll start with our online draw, where Hillevi Billinger and Victoria Cuevas got the lucky draws. In the book draw from our Stockholm event, the winners were Agneta Nilsson and Håkan Nyberg. Congratulations to all four - and big thank you to you and everyone else who shared your team challenges with us in the draw! A copy of The Team Formula will make its way to the...
Everyone is different
Maybe life would have been much easier if everyone was the same - if you could approach everyone the same way and get the same results, if people reacted and acted the same way in a given situation. But it would also be so boring and so predictable and so non-creative! The beauty of a team, a group of people who come together to serve a purpose, is that they are all individuals, each unique in their own way, each bringing something...
A team is a mirror reflection of the leader
I was recently in Switzerland where I took this photograph. I was gazing into this stunning lake admiring the view and it started me thinking about how a team is a mirror reflection of the leader, and a team is a mirror reflection of the organisation it leads. So we always need to be aware of the impact we have. In the book Stephen leads his team through the merger of 2 teams, he also becomes very aware of his impact……… Thanks for...
Interview with Mandy in West Sussex County Times
Mandy was recently interviewed about the book, by West Sussex County Times. Read the article here. West Sussex County Times - 16th May 2013
The ripple effect
We are not one person at work and another person at home - each of us is just one person. And whatever is going on with that person affects all parts of his/her life. If there are problems at home, it will have some knock-on effect at work - and if there is something going on at work, it will be hard not to take that back home. This is something that Christine, one of the characters in The Team Formula experiences as she is having...
