Stewart Leadership Insights Blog

Evaluate Your Team's Communication Skills With These 4 Questions

By Peter Stewart

March 02, 2022

Team Development, Team Performance, Executive Teams, Teaming for Success

diverse business team working around conference room table

Did you know that collaboration is a key factor in priming our brains for success when working with others? While it’s no secret that successful teamwork requires successful communication, the full impact of a collaborative, communicative...

4 Questions to Unify Your Senior Team

By Peter Stewart

February 14, 2022

Team Development, Team Performance, Executive Teams, Teaming for Success

senior executive team sitting around conference table in meeting

As an individual contributor, every member of your senior leadership team is probably a rockstar. Those rockstar characteristics likely made them stand out as candidates for senior leadership. But sometimes, individual contributors have trouble...

3 Questions to Measure the Morale of Your Team

By Peter Stewart

January 07, 2022

Team Development, Team Performance, Teaming for Success

Over the years at Stewart Leadership, we have noticed a pivotal element of team communication: people tend to support or defend what they helped create or decide. Employees that have a stake in their teams will feel like their actions matter. Team...

2 Essential Ingredients in Launching a Successful Team

By Peter Stewart

January 05, 2022

Team Development, Team Performance, Teaming for Success

energetic senior leader engaging with team

Have you ever worked on a team that seemed chaotic from the start? One where no one seems to know what the team is meant to accomplish, or how the work of the team impacts the larger organizational picture? You aren’t alone.

The 5 Phases of Teaming

By Peter Stewart

December 13, 2021

Team Development, Team Performance, Teaming for Success

executive team working around conference table

Collaboration and teamwork are integral in today’s business environment. The evolving nature of remote and in-person work can make team building a challenge for even the most effective leaders. Teaming is an ongoing, action-oriented process of...

5 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Remote Team

By Daniel Stewart

November 01, 2021

Team Development, Team Performance, Remote Leadership, Teaming for Success

looking over shoulder at team on laptop screen remote work

Teams can feel beaten down for any number of reasons. Perhaps they’re coming out of a particularly busy season, or maybe a leadership shake-up has given rise to feelings of instability and anxiety

6 Barriers to Team Problem-Solving

By Daniel Stewart

August 23, 2021

Team Performance, Teaming, Problem Solving

professional team working on problem together

There’s no doubt that team problem-solving is an excellent way to develop effective solutions to core organizational challenges. Great teams can produce a better result 80% of the time, and solving problems together helps the whole team buy-in to...

7 Advantages of Team Problem-Solving

By Daniel Stewart

August 09, 2021

Team Performance, Teaming, Problem Solving

Do you remember that old story about the blind men and the elephant? In the story, six men who lived in a village in India were born blind. They grew up curious about the world around them and often asked travelers to share their stories of life...