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Here are three Corporate Team Building Ideas that are guaranteed to add pep and energy to your next conference and turn it into the home run hit you have been looking for. Have your quarterly, bi-annual, or annual conferences become dull and boring? As the planner for your conference, you feel ... Views:11051
Team building activities help build a purposeful team culture within your organization. One of the reasons companies have offsite meetings is to not only share and gather information, but also to improve their team culture by giving people “face time”. If you’re planning an offsite meeting, ... Views:10929
I recently had the opportunity to spend several hours working with professional horse trainer Dee Janelle and it reminded me of the powerful lessons in leadership and communication horses offer us if we take the time to listen and truly connect. Working with horses is a lifelong journey of ... Views:1919
Think of this expression for one moment: “you should take more responsibility for your work!” If you are like me, this may be an expression that you have used in the past to express your frustration at the paltry efforts of your subordinates, employees or teammates. But let’s think about it for ... Views:2371
Companies whose main source of income is selling products must have a formidable sales team. These are people who are charismatic, good communicators and are able to sell any type of products handed to them – whether it’s a vacuum cleaner, a dishwasher or a dish rag – to different kinds of ... Views:1730
One of the greatest tools a manager has is knowing about the employees that make up the team. This is not meant to seem like a manager should be friends with the employees and buddy around because really a manager should never do that. But it does mean that a manager needs to know what works for ... Views:2647
Is EVERY member of your team contributing SIGIFICANTLY to your strategic goals? By EVERY member of your team, I mean EVERY member, including front-line talent that you pay by the hour. By significantly, I mean directly to your bottom-line in the form of tens of thousands to millions of dollars ... Views:3233
In a recent leadership workshop participants were asked to share all the things their peers, subordinates and bosses do that drive them crazy and make their jobs more difficult. Two full flip-chart pages were filled.
Next, the same group of participants was asked to identify the things they ... Views:3165
Most companies take a good approach to developing leaders, but generally miss the point. There's a lot of emphasis placed on good decision making, effective communication, and team building. And all those are important, but don't address what matters most.
When you get right down to it, the ... Views:2072
Icebreakers are great. When you get people together to work on things, getting them to know each other will spur on other positive results.
I make it a habit to have an icebreaker at just about every volunteer meeting I conduct, whether the group is large or small. After all, these people ... Views:2558
If you are a manager, strong workplace relationships built on good communication will help you achieve success. Here are three practical steps you can take to make you a better communicator at work.
We all know people who seem to be natural communicators at work. They communicate confidently ... Views:3566
In business it is often the little things that make a big difference. In sports little things win big games. To achieve success in both arenas there must exist a certain attention to detail and focus on the core fundamentals of a task or project.
This focus involves teamwork and with teamwork ... Views:4143
How can Team building, Conferences and Hospitality Events positively impact on your business In a financial climate that is proving to be tough on businesses?
Well, Team Building helps create engaged employees - and it is Engaged Employees create Loyal Customers who in turn create Bigger ... Views:3198
We encounter feedback in a number of ways in the workplace. When working with another person or group of people to deliver goods or services, feedback is a key component to being able to continually correct toward the goal. Feedback is also institutionalized in the annual or semiannual ... Views:3635
Communication is a catch-all phrase for things that go wrong in companies and relationships. Unfortunately, the concept is too ambiguous to do anything constructive to fix it.
I've identified seven communication mistakes that lead to mis-understandings, and cause conflicts between co-workers, ... Views:2399
Upon completing a recent project I took my client to lunch to thank him for his business. We reminisced about how we first met at my End Procrastination NOW! Workshop and how he realized at that time he was tired of tolerating things in his business.
Among the problems with which he was ... Views:1932
No Trust Between Team Members
When team members don't trust each other or are suspicious of each other, the end result is a team that is not working together. This usually means they are stand offish and not helping each other. It also can be noticed that they do not support each other. ... Views:2678
Part 1 of this introductory article highlighted whether stretching, aka personal growth (not to be confused with parking your butt, reading self-help books, and watching the world whiz by you), is for you and whether you are open to using it to grow your business and improve your lifestyle. Part ... Views:2200
Hiring the right person is always a risky business, but as business improves there will come a time when you are going to have to add people to your organization. Virtually everyone of us has made a bad hiring decision at one time or another and we know the high cost of a bad hire.
It is ... Views:2609
I recently posted this question on LinkedIn:
Sales Managers: What do you do when your HR group isn't able to identify the hunters you need?
With the incredible costs due to unfilled positions (customers going with the competition, RFPs not completed and generally missed sales ... Views:2411
The boys of summer are back. You’ll find them hanging out in Florida and Arizona ballparks, getting those winter cobwebs cleared out, and setting out to prove they’re worth all that money (or should be paid all that money).
But while it still has to be worked out on the field, and the first ... Views:1691
Appointments to position of leadership, influence and high decision making power are always rigged and plagued with inconsistency, thumb-sucking, guesswork with no system of set down criterion in place. Many followers complain of haphazard approaches to promotions where it is not based on any ... Views:3117
Humans excel at solving complex problems. Unfortunately, humans are also prone to making simple errors without a reliable 'road map,' or operations checklist. In the digital age, we are amazed at the abilities of computers to solve problems. But the computer's capacity to solve problems is ... Views:1858
My clients often ask me how to communicate more effectively. We all are capable of practicing effective communication we just haven't learned how to actually do it. Here are some basic tips on how to get started.
1. Set up an atmosphere for communicating. Everyone gets to say what they want, ... Views:4248
Teams often fail because:
Teams will look for recognition as a team and also individual recognition. This is a fantastic motivator because people want to know that what they do matters. Often it seems that only recognition from their manager is what counts but that is not true. Praise from ... Views:2986
Just before the start of a “Stress, Change and Creative Teaming” workshop, I was testing out my microphone. The program was for managers of a global engineering company. Most of the 50 + particpants were ex-military, now contractors working with commands and brigades based at Ft. Hood, TX or ... Views:2866
If I could wave a magic wand, and change something about how human beings interact with each other, I would eliminate “gotcha” forever.
What is “gotcha”? Before we talk about eliminating “gotcha”, it is important to clarify just what “gotcha” is! “Gotcha” can come in many forms. In the ... Views:3847
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I have always believed that the strength of a team is the team itself. The people within the team, between them pretty much determine the success or otherwise of the team. Each ... Views:5056
When calling back your prospects it is important to know what there personality color type is. You need to know the difference between a Yellow, Blue, Red, and Green personality types. Knowing this difference could make a real impact on how effectively that you can build your business. In this ... Views:5420
Advertisements for leads are everywhere on the web and they promise everything from wealth to automatic ways to grow your business. But can a lead system really deliver? Are they really worth the money?
Lead systems can be effective and can be used to grow your business. In fact, if you ... Views:2157
Can I make money from Online Network marketing?
Author: Ric Moran
I want to explode the myth of online marketing and I also want to help you in your choice of Online marketing opportunities
Firstly the big question, can I make money in online marketing? The answer is definitely yes but ... Views:1654
Are you a master of doing it all, juggling priorities, constant meetings and email overload?
When I ask leaders what change they could make to become more effective, one of the most common responses is that they need to delegate more. They recognize the need to delegate most of what comes ... Views:1822
In my consultations with clients I hear many complaints about the challenge of getting teams to work together well. There is recognition that teamwork offers huge rewards but also frustration with the personal experience of working within teams.
One of the ways to improve teamwork is to ... Views:6362
Any significant accomplishment usually requires the involvement of many people. What if one could simply understand the unique genius of individuals, and further, be able to assemble teams where genius and talents were complementary to others on the team to produce outstanding results?
“All ... Views:1593
We are all used to working as a part of a team. Working toward a set of common goals that point to the company’s mission is a great achievement; and yet, the team is faced with more challenges each day. The need to be productive and effective has never been more important.
But how can one ... Views:2234
Every successful group venture, whether in the business world, the family home, an educational setting or a community campaign, is the result of effective leadership. Simply put, leaders accomplish desired results by influencing others. The most significant contribution a leader can make is to ... Views:4629
This is probably the most cut and dry aspect of a business. An employee is present or not. Employees are very important and need to be at work. But how is this done fairly when there are full time employees, part time employees, and some places have per diem (as needed) employees. What should ... Views:2222
Sometimes a team has to be trained or at least some members have to be trained. Then there are times when discipline of a team is necessary. New projects may have to be implemented or a change in a procedure may occur. There may be some problems that have to be solved. When this occurs things ... Views:2136
There are two types of discipline happening in business or regarding teams or there should be. The is the job performance discipline which is usually done in a progression to correct a problem. In other words there is some lee-way knowing that people make mistakes. It is a corrective and ... Views:2204
In order to survive in the increasing demands of the workloads that our management offers, we need to keep ourselves from worrying a lot and be more focused on what are the effective ways of building confidence in a team.
Team building involves goal setting and a game plan. A virtual ... Views:1840
I am always fascinated by examples of teamwork and leadership from which we can all learn. As such, during a (reluctant, at first) viewing of Michael Jackson’s This Is It movie I was rather intrigued by the way he went about working on what was intended to be his last concert tour. His funeral ... Views:1199
REAL Appreciative team building is the new rage for smart business. Gone are most of the games, people used to call "team building activities". Smart companies are now looking for sustainable results, beyond team motivational talks, that they know don't last.
Appreciative Inquiry in Team ... Views:4551
When discussing problems that need to be worked out, you have to get each other’s ideas and opinions. This way, getting the solutions to the problem will be easier. But sometimes, heated discussions occur when everybody wants to say something and has something to offer. Instead of arriving at a ... Views:908
Panic is probably the most terrifying symptom of an anxiety attack. The tightness in chest with anxiety sometimes feels like a heart attack. But fixing just the tightness won't remove the anxiety.
You could take an aspirin or painkiller. You could meditate or take deep breaths. You could ... Views:2341
The third week in May is a very special week in Annapolis, MD. It is Commencement Week for the United States Naval Academy midshipmen, and every year the Blue Angels rehearse on Tuesday and perform on Wednesday afternoon. This year, for the first time in many years, several friends and I went to ... Views:1089
Who's On Your Team?
You DO Have a Team, Right?
I don't have any employees. But I don't work alone, either. I love my independence, and I wouldn't think of going it alone.
I hire professionals to take care of various aspects of my business, but they never go on the payroll.
And for ... Views:963
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!” - Mark Twain
This week I had a pleasant introduction ... Views:1839
Team building is an everyday task. There is practicing, tasks to be completed and checked, time restraints which cause time management, customer service, scheduling, and evaluation to state a few. There is giving the instructions in a way that is understood by the team and by each individual. ... Views:1713
Do you have a small business or are you a solo-preneur? Are you in need of administrative support help? Do you find that you use the time that you should be earning money to complete day-to-day support tasks? Hiring a virtual assistant may be the perfect solution for you.
According to the ... Views:1301
I was moving along with one of the most important things I do on a daily (okay every 4-5 days) basis. This is something I can’t do without and gives me the greatest of pleasures. Yes, I was cooking chili and baking cornbread. Eating is a pleasure especially when you place a personal touch on the ... Views:1277