Creative Redundancy and Team Alignment

Creative Redundancy and Team Alignment

During recent conversation, I shared a phrase that my husband Eric and I have used a lot in our work with churches. Our idea of Creative Redundancy is that people need to hear the same information again and again — in different ways — before they truly understand it...
Cross Functional Teams and Team Alignment

Cross Functional Teams and Team Alignment

One way to improve alignment of teams to an organization’s overarching goals or mission is to create cross functional or interdisciplinary teams. Forming these teams can be time consuming but often results in worthwhile benefits to customers. I witnessed...
Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to Me!

With my birthday days away, I am reflecting again on how this next year could be different. I still have more than half my life left to live, if the life expectancy calculator is accurate. Still, with each birthday I feel the anxiety of wondering if I am living up to...