• Attitude is Infectious - So Inject Your Team with Joy

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    Take time to enjoy your leadership role and take the necessary action to infect those around you with joy. Teams take their attitude from their leader, so be as positive and upbeat as you can. People will naturally absorb and adopt your energy level; if you are “down”, it can worry them and bring them down as well.Read more…
  • 101 Ways to Motivate, Energize and Inspire Your Team

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    Here is a long list of effective and simple incentives for your team.At the conclusion of an incentive program, it is important to assess how successful it was. Did you get the results you wanted?Read more…
  • Interviewing - The Single Most Important Question To Ask

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    When prospective employees are being interviewed, they are asked about their past employment. But they are usually asked about what they did. These answers may be shaded to reflect a well.....Read more…
  • Fiefdoms Do Not Equal Gold - Problems in the Land of Trade Shows

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    ONCE UPON A TIME, there were three Knights. They were the Knight of Marketing, the Knight of Sales and the Kinght of Exhibits.Though they were adjacent in the same country, each had a fiefdom that was defended with tenacity and guile.Read more…
  • Broken Teams Damage Your Business

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    A profitable business bottom line depends on effective teaming as much today as it ever did; yet, “effective teaming” may be destined to be no more than another irrelevant buzz phrase, because by and large teams are still dysfunctional and broken.If you’ve ever worked in a team – and I’ve yet to meet someone who hasn’t – I know you have at least one horror story to tell about a team that crashed and burned. Isn’t it ironic that with all that’s been written about the negative impact dysfunctional teams can have on business and with all the training available to help correct the problem, success is still elusive.Read more…
  • Leadership Skills Development – Corporate Team Building

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    Top leaders in high performing businesses are people who have a wide range of experience and have developed successful business careers, management skills and abilities to a high level. That is the reason they sit where they do in their respective companies.Often, the particular skills and abilities that have been highly developed pertain to know-how in a technical field, and what these top leaders do now simply comes as second nature to them.Read more…
  • Team Leadership - Lead Your Team, Don't Manage It

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    Team management in the context of setting tasks, prioritizing, monitoring progress, agreeing and setting performance measures is all relatively straightforward.If you don't agree - get help now!Let's talk about your true value added, let's talk about Leadership, Development, Empowerment and Having FunBeing responsible for a team, large or small, is a serious business.Read more…
  • Team Building – The Only Way to Succeed

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    A great way to build a stronger team is to increase the understanding that every member has with regard to the part they play in the team and the part that all other members play. The more a person knows about how they contribute to the whole the more motivation they will have to do their best. If everyone does their best the teams will always succeed.Read more…
  • Team Building for a Mobile Car Wash Business

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    Team= Together Everyone Accomplishes More or so the acronym says. We often hear about teams in sports, military, corporations and politics. But team dynamics can also be found in very low-tech businesses.Read more…
  • 7 Factors That Make Up A Winning Team

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    Sport is often used as a metaphor in business, comparing the effort of the team with that of the organization. The goal of such a comparison is to improve your business (process) from what you observe and learn from sports, in this case soccer.There are two relevant questions.Read more…
  • Pass them the Crown to Build the Empire

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    Stop for a moment…. and imagine how you would feel as an employee under this situation:You have been working for ACME for ten years now. You do the same thing everyday.Read more…
  • Team Building - Not Just For Sports

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    Most people think that a team is a group of people gathered together with a particular goal in common. In a way that is right but in many ways tat is very wrong. A group of individuals that are working together without a clear understanding of how they fit into the whole and how everyone else fits into the whole cannot possibly work in symphony and be a truly cohesive team.Read more…
  • Team Building - Your Way to Success

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    Companies have always wanted to improve their profits and their efficiency. For this reason years ago larger companies decided to look inward instead of outward to improve their company. These people found that the more of a cohesive bunch their employees were the better they worked together.Read more…
  • Teamwork...Bizz Buzz or Biz Bust?

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    What is a team anyway? One of the most popular of business buzz concepts for many years now has been teamwork. We are always looking to be part of a team, seeking leaders who can develop teams and hunting for employees who aspire to be team players.Read more…
  • Making it Up

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    I Make Stuff Up.I read this on my son’s T-shirt as if I’d never seen it before, yet on this particular morning, it looked much different and even made me laugh at the simplicity of it.When I first bought the shirt, I pictured a child simply making up stories.Read more…
  • Business Team Work and Super Stars

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    Have you ever been on a business team and noticed that the other team members do not pull their weight? Have you noticed them sloughing off responsibility or even ethics to get their workload share done faster, but turning in a half-baked effort?Often when someone turns in a half-baked effort they will attempt to conceal their lack of commitment or effort as genuine first class and even boast about it to the other team members, customers, vendors and to the point they even fool themselves.Read more…
  • Removing Mediocrity from Business Teams

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    If you run a company and you run it like a sports team or Navy Seals Special Team, well then you should be congratulated indeed. It is that level of commitment, which can win markets in business thru streamlined efficiency in Management at all levels and camaraderie at the front desk and line workers. We all know this is true, but how come when the team’s engine is firing on all cylinders is it so obvious?Read more…
  • Health & Safety on Team Building Events

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    The UK has some of the most stringent Health & Safety standards in the World. Most blue chip companies go even further than the prescribed standards to ensure the wellbeing of their employees. Yet the majority of companies employ team building providers without checking on their own policies and procedures.Read more…
  • Gaining Commitment Or Compliance From Your Team? Some Guidelines for Team Decision Making

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    Rob worked as a qualified, but junior physiotherapist in a busy hospital. He along with three of his colleagues were asked by their manager to discuss amongst themselves how they would like their rosters to be organised (i.e.Read more…
  • Business Process Consulting – Five Critical Steps in Corporate Team Building

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    A well-designed house starts with a solid foundation so that it can withstand the challenges of its environment. But even before the foundation is laid or the first nail is hammered, we must first have a model or a picture in our mind’s eye of the completed project. Locking in a solid foundation is likewise critical for Corporate Team Building.Read more…

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    In most business realities today, when an opportunity presents itself for a manager to add a new complimentary player to a team, this opportunity is most often fumbled. The newly acquired player to the existing team is not objectively acquired as a asset that can truly COMPLIMENT and add to the team's strengths, by filling an existing weakness. Many times, the new player is simply a different shade of what already exists.
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    Team Building Activities are stimulating problem-solving tasks designed to help group members develop their capacity to work effectively together. Many team building and initiative tasks are like kids games, others are novel, complex tasks and designed for specific needs.