A new calendar doesn’t automatically create a stronger team.

If your people enter January with the same communication gaps, unclear roles, draining responsibilities, and frustrating meetings, your new goals may produce familiar results.

Gallup found that highly engaged business units experience:

• 23% higher profitability
• 18% higher sales productivity
• Up to 51% lower turnover

That’s why the final months of the year may be one of the best times to invest in your team.

In my latest article, I explain how a Working Genius workshop can help your team reflect on the past year, understand where each person contributes their best work, and enter the new year with greater vigor, purpose, and clarity.

If you lead a team—or care about how your organization begins the coming year—I wrote this for you.

The difference between a good afternoon and lasting change

Perhaps you understand the value of bringing in an outsider to facilitate your quarterly meetings and Board Retreats, but have you thought about bringing in two people to facilitate? What about the dynamic duo of a husband and wife team?

When leaders facilitate their own team-development days, they must manage the room while carrying the weight of every past interaction. Discover how a neutral outside facilitator can create balanced participation, fresh perspective, meaningful momentum—and give the leader the freedom to become part of the team.

When was the last time you finished a full day of non-profit work and felt energized instead of completely drained?