Recently, I was privileged to work with a national team on leadership and coaching. Coincidentally, I received a sample assessment that’s supposed to measure a Leader’s ability as a Coach. I took it.  Guess what? If you’re a good Leader, likely you’ll get a poor score. The sloppy psychometric design rewards coaching and punishes leading.  Unfortunately,

Teams are built by the 3 Pillars of Team Success (Part 1).  They’re also destroyed by 3 deadly poisons.  These can surface at anytime in the life of a team.  Great teams inoculate with the cures before they’re infected and maintain a discipline of prevention. Beware 3 Deadly Team Poisons: Conflicting Interests   Partners who fundamentally disagree on what