When Teamwork is Just Not Working: 5 Ways Behavioral Insight Can Improve Team Effectiveness
What do you do when a team is just not working? We see it happen all the time: people are thrown together because their expertise is needed on a project, and even though everyone knows what to do, they just can’t seem to get it done together. Meetings go nowhere, and everyone leaves frustrated. Or […]
Addressing Conflict to Build Team Unity
One doesn’t often think of conflict and unity in the same breath. Workplace conflict is something most of us dread, especially when our days are stressful enough. But conflict, workplace and otherwise, is inevitable when interacting with other human beings. The good news is that conflict doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. In […]
Hunter or Farmer? How to Build a Strong Sales Team with Both
Approach any group of sales leaders and this debate is likely to come up in their sales strategy conversation: Which is the better sales-type — Hunter or Farmer? And can a person be both? Most often, there are true distinctions and objectives for each role. And there are nuances in terms of the personality traits […]
9 Tips to Manage Conflict on a Team
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone on your team got along all of the time? Unfortunately, that’s not reality. When you bring people with diverse perspectives together (which is an overall positive thing), conflict is inevitable. Differences of opinion and personality clashes can quickly escalate, disrupting productivity and eroding morale. That means you need to […]
Leveraging Personality Type to Build Effective Teams
A coworker of mine, we’ll call her Tonya (because that’s her name) always says, “Teamwork makes the dream work,” a phrase originally coined by John C. Maxwell in his book by the same name. We all expect her to say it any time one member of our team helps out another. Nothing beats that feeling […]
The Winning Lineup: Using Benchmarking and Assessments to Build a Strong Team
I am a natural enthusiast. Anytime I get caught up in something, I go deep and sideways looking for additional information, original context, and fun facts. As Spring rolls around, my enthusiasm for March Madness kicks in. And this got me going down a path of wanting to know the origin of the term “First […]
Omnia CEO Spotlight: Heather Caswell on Building a Winning Team
It started around a dining room table. Three people, a dictionary, a thesaurus, and four other assessments. The trio wanted to make sure their instrument was different. And as a member of Omnia’s current team, I’m grateful they did. Without that first idea, that first meeting of the minds to make something unique, I wouldn’t […]
How to Earn Your Positive Team Dynamics Merit Badge
Camp Omnia is our little way of paying homage to summer rituals while we continue adulting. In this week’s blog, and as part of our Camp Omnia series, we’re going to earn our Positive Team Dynamics badge. Even if they are working from home, completing most of their activities independently, your employees don’t generally work in […]
Camp Omnia
Welcome to Camp Omnia. This month we’re embarking on a learning journey to help improve yourself and your team. You know, just like summer camp ought to be. While there aren’t any ropes courses, trust circles, s’mores, or singing Kumbaya, (though we fully support the team efforts), we have packed this camp with valuable information […]
Using the Professional Development Report to Grow Your Team
Believe it or not, a little personal self-awareness goes a long way towards developing a strong, introspective team — a team that communicates, a team that solves problems together, a team that works through challenges and manages mistakes in a way that promotes improvement rather than blame. Self-awareness means understanding who you are and the […]
