Humans Not Resources

Far too often the people who serve on teams at work fail to receive value from them. That’s a real shame considering the potential for peers to support each other to transform the company or to succeed in the face of challenge. Within every team lies the potential for everyone to “co-elevate” each other to new heights, and that includes the executive team at the heart of the organization. Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a managing, consulting, and team coaching company. He is recognized as a global thought leader in the relational and collaborative sciences, and is a New York Times best-selling author. Keith identifies behaviors that block organizations from reaching their goals and transforms them by coaching new behaviors that increase growth. Keith has unique knowledge on the value of working together, since he and his team have done twenty years of research on how to coach high performing teams. They have discovered that 74% of people on teams say that they do not have permis