# Team Sterka ## Posts - [How to post your Team Sterka certificate on LinkedIn](https://sterka.team/blog/certificate-linkedin/): Congratulations on completing your Team Sterka programme! But what now? Well, you might want to show off your knowledge of people skills. And what better way to do this than to add your certificate of completion to your LinkedIn profile. - [The power of positive feedback](https://sterka.team/blog/the-power-of-positive-feedback/): Improve the morale and engagement of your team by providing the correct balance of positive feedback and constructive criticism. - [Shut up and listen: Your foundation to strong relationships](https://sterka.team/blog/shut-up-and-listen-your-foundation-to-strong-relationships/): The easiest way to improve the quality of your relationships is to listen. Sounds simple right? (No pun intended!) In reality, it is a skill that takes self-control and practice. - [Let it go: Reframing to build resilience](https://sterka.team/blog/let-it-go-reframing-to-build-resilience/): Building and maintaining strong relationships is fundamental to long term success at work. But we all know that things don’t always go according to plan. Proactively dealing with the aftermath of difficult situations, rather than writing them off as a bad experience, will make you stronger and more resilient. - [How Team Sterka makes learning work](https://sterka.team/blog/team-sterka-learning-styles/): Different people like to learn in different ways.  At Team Sterka, we aim to provide a truly inclusive learning experience. For us, this means making sure that we cover a wide range of learning styles so that, however you prefer to learn, we provide an enriching learning experience. - [Persuasion techniques for product teams](https://sterka.team/blog/persuasion-techniques-for-product-teams/): We’ve all been there. Perhaps you need to negotiate more time for your team. Perhaps you’re trying to convince your teammates to buy-in to your idea. Perhaps you disagree with your roadmaps’ priorities.  You’re trying to get people to agree with you and you know they’re apprehensive. You can see it in their body language. You can hear it in their tone. What can you do to subtly convince others to buy into your thinking? Here are a few techniques to help you. - [Why modern agencies need distributed client skills](https://sterka.team/blog/why-modern-agencies-need-distributed-client-skills/): Collaboration is the essential ingredient to success for modern agency teams. With digital so prevalent across organisations, agency teams need to easily integrate with client teams. This presents a challenge as – although often fully integrated – there’s an agency/client contractual relationship. Team members represent your agency at critical moments, often without the support of a client services team. And the people embedded are often from a technical background so can lack the client services skills needed to deal with complex client challenges. For these reasons, it’s essential for modern agencies to train their frontline staff in client services skills.... - [When product teams need coercive leadership](https://sterka.team/blog/product-teams-coercive-leadership/): “DO WHAT I TELL YOU AND DO IT NOW!” Ever worked with a leader like that? Someone who leads by instruction, force and control – “it’s my way or the highway”. This style of leadership usually leads to despondent teams with low levels of communication and engagement. Why challenge and debate when you’ll just get shouted down? Teams that are based solely on this command-and-control leadership style are likely to develop a culture of non-acceptance, disengagement and regressive behaviour. Not great. So, if coercive leadership is a negative leadership style then why would you choose to use it? Let’s consider... - [The key to high performing teams: Balance](https://sterka.team/blog/the-key-to-high-performing-teams/): In sports, you see it all the time. A collection of ‘elite’ players, often recruited at great expense, are beaten by a perceived ‘smaller’ team. Outrage follows, questions are asked, managers are fired… Where has it all gone wrong? Often the answers are simple. People played out of position, players put into positions in which they’re uncomfortable, too many players with the same set of skills. What’s missing is a key ingredient of high performing teams: Balance. It’s the same in business. Teams stuffed with big thinkers will struggle to deliver. Teams full of analysers will struggle to extract themselves... - [Don’t be a pushover: How to assert your opinion](https://sterka.team/blog/how-to-assert-your-opinion/): Are you over-accommodating? We’ve all been there – you don’t want to offend/it’s easier/you don’t want to argue – so you back away from any disagreement and accept someone else’s ideas, even though you might vehemently disagree with them. This is known as ‘being accommodating’. Being accommodating can be a positive thing – accepting you’re wrong, preserving harmony and building social credit. But being too accommodating can have its drawbacks. Society will often reward more assertive personalities who aren’t afraid to ask for what they want – ironically because they’re often asking people who are being accommodating! Sometimes we need... - [Running interactive remote workshops: 10 best practices](https://sterka.team/blog/interactive-remote-workshops/): Our training is high energy, super-interactive and a great learning experience for everyone - find out how we do it... - [Get Coaching: Our unique leadership coaching model](https://sterka.team/blog/get-leadership-coaching/): Get Coaching unlocks people’s potential and maximises their professional (and personal) performance... - [Introducing Team Sterka](https://sterka.team/blog/introducing-team-sterka/): Team Sterka has just launched - here's all the background as to what we're up to... ## Pages - [LOOP Agencies](https://sterka.team/case-studies/loop/) - [Blink](https://sterka.team/case-studies/blink/) - [Case studies](https://sterka.team/case-studies/) - [Our Program (USA)](https://sterka.team/how-it-works-usa/) - [Home (USA)](https://sterka.team/home-usa/) - [Our Programme](https://sterka.team/how-it-works/) - [Home](https://sterka.team/) - [Made Media](https://sterka.team/case-studies/made-media/) - [Futurice](https://sterka.team/case-studies/futurice/) - [Podcast](https://sterka.team/podcast-all/) - [Newsletter](https://sterka.team/newsletter-all/) - [Podcast](https://sterka.team/podcast/) - [Top tips](https://sterka.team/toptips/) - [Datafatch test](https://sterka.team/datafatch-test/): [latest_mailchimp_newsletter] - [Newsletter](https://sterka.team/newsletter/) - [Fetching Newslatter Mailchinp](https://sterka.team/fetching-newslatter-mailchinp/) - [Lighthouse](https://sterka.team/case-studies/lighthouse/) - [Torchbox](https://sterka.team/case-studies/torchbox/) - [Engaging writing workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/written-skills-worshop/) - [Storytelling workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/storytelling-training/) - [Really successful meetings workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/meetings-training/) - [Amazing presentations workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/presentation-skills-training/) - [Building inner strength workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/resilience-wellbeing-training/) - [Effective communications workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/effective-communications-training/) - [Having difficult conversations workshop](https://sterka.team/workshops/conflict-resolution-training/) - [Workshops](https://sterka.team/workshops/) - [Alumni programme](https://sterka.team/alumni/): Schedule: LinkedIn masterclass Thu 21 July 2022, 1.00-1.30pm (UK time) with Trenton Moss Learn best practices make real-time improvements to your LinkedIn profile Identifying and adjusting your communication style Wed 21 September 2022, 1.00-1.30pm (UK time) with Jo White Learn how to easily identify people’s comms style and revisit how to adjust your own comms style to build better relationships Problem solving with critical thinking Wed 19 October 2022, 1.00-1.30pm (UK time) with Andy Ingle Learn about systems thinking, the ‘six hats’ framework and how you can apply critical thinking in your role Aligning your client experience Wed 16 November... - [Taster session](https://sterka.team/taster/) - [Random Number Generator](https://sterka.team/random-number-generator/) - [Facilitation](https://sterka.team/badges/facilitation-89178/) - [Making an impact](https://sterka.team/badges/making-an-impact-85968/) - [Outbound comms](https://sterka.team/badges/outbound-comms-865234/) - [Storytelling](https://sterka.team/badges/storytelling-21788/) - [Strong relationships](https://sterka.team/badges/strong-relationships-85958/) - [Conflict Resolution](https://sterka.team/badges/conflict-resolution-85948/): Congratulations! 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We only collect data for legitimate reasons related to our business and our core services. We won’t sell your data to anyone. We’ve outlined in this policy the data that we collect and why. At any time you can get in touch with us at hello@sterka.team to find out what data we hold on you, why we use it or to ask... [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)