It takes an emerging leader about six months to turn the new, learned skills required for their job into “reliable habits,” and that time can cost employers.

For team members to thrive together in a task-filled work environment, they need to adopt these key habits.

Missed deadlines, decreased productivity, low morale and a culture of fear are all symptoms of a lack of trust and effective communication among team members.

The culture of “always on” and having more on your to-do lists than can reasonably be finished “is likely to affect your mood and overall productivity.”

Even if you have top-tier performers on your team, it takes only one or two people “who [miss deadlines, fail to make critical handoffs, work on the wrong priorities] to cut team performance by an average of 24%…”

Joseph, many people know you through your work with VitalSmarts, your writing, influencer, crucial conversations and a host of others.

A new study by VitalSmarts, a top 20 leadership training company, shows that it takes only one to two team members who make even small fumbles (miss deadlines, fail to make critical handoffs, work on the wrong priorities) to cut team performance by an average of 24 percent. Essentially, the success of the team rests on every …

Most of us have been “feedsmacked” at some point in our life. In the midst of a meeting, an innocent walk down the hallway, or a performance review, someone delivers a verbal wallop that rocks our psychological footing. We looked at 445 such incidents when we conducted an online survey asking people about the hardest …

In a recent survey, we asked 1,335 employees the following question: What significant weakness does your boss have that is apparent to everyone in the office except the boss?

Read Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny and Ron McMillan.