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Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 3 ..




This is a series of posts that I am writing about the dynamics of a team, and how it came to be that we started getting push back from the team about pushing them too hard, which lead to a series of introspective discussions (Pushing the team too hard) about whether we had gone too [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 2 ..




The previous post (Pushing the team, maybe too hard) detailed some of the problems that a team that was under-performing started experiencing when it decided that it would not longer under-perform and started to move up the performance chain, but in the end, the focus on productivity started taking a toll on the team members. [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 1




The topic for this post came up from a recent discussion that we started having. The managers of the team were astounded when, at yet another weekend, when members of the team were called for work (since yet another milestone was approaching), almost 90% of the team came up with excuses individually, and finally, the [...]