If you are new to leading a team, or perhaps your team has changed: different members; a change in the number of teammates; new goals. It’s a great time to take a moment to reflect upon how to unite the team for best efficiency, performance and results. Here is a short list for your consideration: If you have managed a group before, what do you think your team members would say about you and Read More
Don’t Let Post Election Anxiety Hurt Your Team
It’s Thanksgiving-- Keep Talking and Supporting Each Other The election is over, but the uncertainty, divisiveness and questions remain. Colleagues, friends and relatives who are on different sides of the issues (and supported different candidates) are questioning each other’s intelligence, thought processes and whether they really know each other at all. Trust and in Read More
Good Leaders Can Use Conflict to Build a Great Team
Few things divide teams more than disagreement. We experience this in personal life as well as business and politics. Poor leaders believe in creating problems and divisiveness by telling everyone how bad things are. They bully people into agreeing with their ideas and are dictators not leaders. Though people may follow along for a while, this is an extremely poor and disastrous way to lead Read More
How has team building changed or evolved?
How has team building changed or evolved over the past couple of years? Has technology contributed to the innovation? The essence of “team building” has long been fun and games. It started out as a way of getting people to interact and ultimately get to know each other better—leading to a higher comfort level among employees and hopefully better communication and collaboration. Many of the Read More
Business Pet Peeves
Few people realize that sharing pet peeves is a great way to start building trust within a team. These "peeves" reveal things about ourselves, and sharing them is a step toward understanding each other. Here are some of the ones that make the top of our list. Corporate team building events are aimed at helping people work more effectively together, and we all know it's not always Read More