13 Sep Are You a Boss….Or a Leader?

Posted at 00:38h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

You got the title, the business card, maybe even the corner office. Well done! You have all the trappings of a leader. You have a “seat at the table,” as they say. You’ve earned this, right? Yes, probably. But here’s the hard truth – your work...

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30 Aug Why Does Emotional Intelligence Matter?

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In the past few years, you’ve probably heard a lot about emotional intelligence (EI) or emotional quotient (EQ). For a while it was the buzziest new business term. It refers to the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others....

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23 Aug Are You Ready for the ‘Biggest Driver of Transformation’ in the Workplace?

Posted at 01:00h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

According to the World Economic Forum, telework is “one of the biggest drivers of transformation” in the workplace. This is not news to me. I noticed the explosive growth of virtual teams in my own business years ago. Time after time I watched as companies used...

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16 Aug Virtual Teams for Dummies is Out!

Posted at 10:37h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

July 31 was a very special day for me – it was the day that my book, Virtual Teams for Dummies, was finally released! It’s the latest title in the popular Dummies series for Wiley Publishing. It was many months of research, writing and editing, but...

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08 Aug It’s a Small World After All — Leveraging the Power of Global Virtual Teams

Posted at 23:46h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

As part of my research for my upcoming book Virtual Teams for Dummies (out July 31, 2018 and available now on Amazon, I’ve been talking to many leaders about the unique challenges of managing global virtual teams. The benefits of bringing together people from many different...

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18 Jul What a Real Team Player Looks Like in a Healthy Team Culture

Posted at 23:37h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust by Tara Powers 0 Comments

With the World Cup on everyone’s minds this summer, I’ve been thinking about the traditional idea of teamwork. We’ve been taught from a young age to support our team. We all want to be seen as selfless team players and we live in fear of...

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03 Jul Want a Flexible Job? Who Doesn’t? I Talked to an Expert at FlexJobs to Find Out How

Posted at 15:57h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Mentoring, Recognition, Strategy by Tara Powers 0 Comments

If you’ve ever searched for a job with a flexible work schedule, you know that there are a lot of too-good-to-be true listings and just plain scams. Sorting through all the junk postings makes it hard for anyone to find the truly great flextime jobs...

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27 Jun A Brief History of Virtual Teams

Posted at 08:14h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

You probably think that the concept of virtual teams is relatively new – but you’d only be partly right. Sure, technological advances, the Internet, and the global workforce created conditions for virtual teams to explode in recent years, but they have been around for centuries. I’ve...

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18 Apr 10 Authentic Leadership Practices You Can Start Today

Posted at 03:26h in Culture, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy by Tara Powers 0 Comments

There is a growing belief that of all the principles of leadership development, authenticity is one of the most important. I wholeheartedly agree. In its simplest terms, authenticity is being true to yourself. But the practice of authentic leadership is so much more than that –...

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04 Apr Company Culture on Virtual Teams: How To Feel Part of It All

Posted at 01:50h in Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Mentoring, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

It’s one thing to create an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie between employees when they’re all in the same building for eight hours a day. But what about when teams work virtually and they rarely see their coworkers, if at all? How can you keep...

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