05 Dec How LinkedIn Helped Get Me a Book Deal

Posted at 13:44h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

You never know where your next opportunity is coming from. That’s the story PRC CEO Tara Powers told on The Writer on the Side podcast with Hassan Osman. She talked about how she was asked to write her best-selling Virtual Teams for Dummies book. It’s a very...

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20 Nov An Attitude of Gratitude

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This month we get a reminder to take a break, reflect and give thanks for all the good things in our lives. Sure, Thanksgiving is usually considered a family holiday, but that doesn’t mean that expressions of gratitude aren’t appropriate for your work family. We...

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14 Nov Giving Thanks to High-Performing Virtual Teams

Posted at 00:48h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Conventional wisdom says that virtual teams should be awkward and disconnected. Distance makes the team disengaged, right? Wrong. In reality, virtual teams are killing it every day and redefining what a culture of connection looks like. In our experience, we’ve found that because of the increased...

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31 Oct Engaging Virtual Teams

Posted at 00:41h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Creating engagement on any work team is a challenge. So consider the struggle with engaging virtual teams members who all work in different time zones. But more and more, our modern workspace connects people primarily through screens, so in many ways engaging virtual teams is...

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24 Oct Setting Team Expectations

Posted at 16:12h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

It seems like the simplest thing in the world – setting team expectations. It’s Manager 101, right? So why then is there so much confusion – from both leaders and team members – about what is expected of them? A recent Gallup study found nearly...

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17 Oct Why Leadership Training is Important

Posted at 00:23h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

For some organizations, the commitment to learning is a deeply held belief. It’s ingrained in the core values of the business. The lucky employees at these companies enjoy unwavering support for ongoing training and development. Research shows that most companies understand the benefits of leadership...

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18 Sep Ethical Leadership – Can Doing Good Mean Good Business?

Posted at 23:12h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

We see examples of unethical behavior every day – celebrities paying for their kids’ college admission, Facebook sharing data from 50 million users, and our own government officials being accused of unethical acts and behavior. It’s infuriating, to say the least, and it creates a sense...

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04 Sep Back to School Time – Are Your Teachers Trainers Ready?

Posted at 21:53h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Leadership, Mentoring, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

It’s back to school time across the country, and as the kids gather their school supplies and grudgingly accept the inevitable, it got us thinking about the teachers that await them in the classroom. We all know that teachers are integral to learning. For many...

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15 Aug PRC Launches Virtual Team Academy

Posted at 00:30h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

It’s pretty clear we are passionate about virtual teams at PRC. We see the growth of virtual teams every day – and the problems that arise if the right tools aren’t in place. Virtual teams are created for a variety of reasons: to leverage technology, reduce...

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25 Jul 5 Guiding Principles to Survive Culture Change

Posted at 00:44h in Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Company culture is often described as its personality. It is the work environment, the collective air you breathe and most of the time it is enigmatic. Company culture is hard to define but one thing is always true: you know it when it’s good –...

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