How often do you move team members around to cross-pollinate skills and culture?

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Our reader poll today asks: How often do you move team members around to cross-pollinate skills and culture?

  • Rarely: 34%
  • Occasionally: 30.88%
  • Never: 18.41%
  • All the time: 16.71%

Don’t let them get stagnant. Leaving your people in the same role, same location or same team for extended periods of time creates risks and misses opportunities. The risk is they get bored or disillusioned and when that happens, performance drops or they leave the organization. By not moving them around, you’re also missing an opportunity to spread and reinforce culture, build new skills and strengthen co-worker relationships. Granted, there’s a balance of how often you move them, but no movement at all is problematic. Think about how you can create some fresh experiences for the members of your team. These don’t have to be permanent reassignments — projects are a great way to get things moving around.

Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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How often do you move team members around to cross-pollinate skills and culture?

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EKG Pulse Graph with Glowing Blue Line

Our reader poll today asks: How often do you move team members around to cross-pollinate skills and culture?

  • Rarely: 34%
  • Occasionally: 30.88%
  • Never: 18.41%
  • All the time: 16.71%

Don’t let them get stagnant. Leaving your people in the same role, same location or same team for extended periods of time creates risks and misses opportunities. The risk is they get bored or disillusioned and when that happens, performance drops or they leave the organization. By not moving them around, you’re also missing an opportunity to spread and reinforce culture, build new skills and strengthen co-worker relationships. Granted, there’s a balance of how often you move them, but no movement at all is problematic. Think about how you can create some fresh experiences for the members of your team. These don’t have to be permanent reassignments — projects are a great way to get things moving around.

Do you agree with these poll results? Let us know in the comments below!

– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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What is your perspective on personality assessments like Myers-Briggs?

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Our reader poll today asks: What is your perspective on personality assessments like Myers-Briggs?

  • They’re incredibly insightful and helpful tools. 19.3%
  • They’re interesting and foster some good conversations. 52.4%
  • They’re amusing, but I don’t use their results a lot. 14.1%
  • They’re distracting and can be misleading. 7.9%
  • They’re hogwash, and I wish we didn’t use them at all. 6.2%

It’s the conversation. 72% of you find value in personality assessments like Myers-Briggs with a note that they’re more about fostering conversations than generating deep insights. Be careful not to overemphasize the results of these tests and miss out on the point that they get people speaking the same language. That’s where respondents say the value lies. Also recognize that a large portion of respondents (28%) place no credence in the results. So before you rush out and conduct the latest and greatest assessment (or before you subject your team to yet another session on the same old ones), understand what you’ll do with the results and how you’ll use them on a regular basis to change the conversation. If you don’t plan on acting on them regularly, you should probably consider investing elsewhere.

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– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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How frequently do you update your strategic plan?

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Our reader poll today asks: How frequently do you update your strategic plan?

  • We refresh more than once per year—13%
  • We update it annually—43%
  • We update every couple of years—19%
  • We rarely refresh it—12%
  • What’s a strategic plan?—13%

Regular strategy review. 56% of you are refreshing your strategic plan every year or even more frequently. The world moves rapidly. Priorities change quickly. Investing the time in regular reassessment is highly recommended. Shifting too slowly in response to market changes can put you at an extreme disadvantage you might not recover from. For those of you who don’t have a strategic plan or aren’t updating them regularly, you should be concerned. Even if you aren’t the owner of the strategic plan, you can still push for the organization to review it. Ask your leadership team if you can help lead the review. Offer to do some of the work. The organization you save might be your own!

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– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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What portion of your time do you work from home?

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Our reader poll today asks: What portion of your time do you work from home?

  • 100%: 7.6%
  • 75-99%: 8.2%
  • 50-74%: 5.4%
  • 25-49%: 8.2%
  • 1-25%: 54.7%
  • 0%: 15.8%

Time from home. 85% of you spend a decent amount of time working from home. Only a small portion go to the office every day. As an employee, be sure your home environment is conducive to being productive and actively manage staying connected with your office coworkers. It can be easy to leave people off meeting invites or forget to check in with them when they’re out of sight. If you’re leading a team with remote workers, find ways to involve them in team events and conversations. This takes deliberate effort on your part. Team members who feel disconnected find it easier to “mail it in” and also have less attachment to your organization. This puts them at higher risk for looking for greener pastures elsewhere.

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– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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When someone does something differently than you would, how do you react?

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Our reader poll today asks: When someone does something differently than you would, how do you react?

  • I encourage people to try ways different than the way I would do something. 39.6%
  • I accept their way and try to learn new approaches. 50.9%
  • I accept their way but still think mine was better. 8.3%
  • I tell them they should have done it my way. 1.2%

Different isn’t wrong. The vast majority of respondents are open and encouraging of doing things differently than they’d do it themselves. For those who are challenged by seeing someone do something differently, you’re missing an opportunity to grow (and possibly do things better than you ordinarily would). When you have that moment of “I wouldn’t do it like that…” please pause, inquire, and seek to understand why they’re doing things differently. They might see risks or opportunities you’re not aware of. You might learn something new. You might help your organization perform better. You owe it to yourself and your colleagues to constantly learn new ways of doing things.

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– Mike Figliuolo at thoughtLEADERS, LLC

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