Why Team Leading Is Like Riding A Bike

Leading a team is far more of an art than a science. That's because it is a balancing act, much like riding a bicycle. As leader, you have to balance the 3 most important factors in your team. Do these right, and you can lead your team anywhere.

Workplace Conflict - Facilitating a Peaceful Outcome

The workplace often requires us to adopt a ‘role-play’ approach which can lead to behaviours that conflict with adult best practice. When disagreements arise, the consequences can result in ongoing stress and low morale: the answer may lie in a facilitated discussion.

Surviving a Business Project

In a perfect world, any business team assembled to take on a project would be a competent group of professionals who seamlessly act as one entity. In the real world, it’s a bit different. People tend to act in their own best interests and play the blame game regardless of the outcome. Here are some ideas that will help you and your team keep their eyes on the prize.

Leadership & Teamwork

How your team works together is contingent upon your leadership skills. Do you have the skills to motivate and inspire your team members towards their goals and visions?

Is Your Company Working At a Standstill? You Need Activities for Conflict Resolution Skills!

Conflict among staff and team members are typically symptomatic of misperceptions and disintegrated communication – in other words, your employees are probably acting a lot like this:

A Gaggle Of Gorgeous Geese

This is another way I might describe our LIVING THE FULFILLED LIFE PROGRAMS. One of the ways we create a sense of community is with the Goose Story that follows that I believe I first heard when I was involved with Landmark Education. It's a powerful metaphor of what's possible when we join together in the spirit of commUNITY:

Team Building - Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Trust

What doest trust really man? This essential building block in human interaction that can either make or break your most important and precious relationships.

MBA Research Project - Creativity, Innovation and Effective Teams

Defining creativity as problem identification and idea generation and innovation as idea selection, development and commercialisation, it becomes easy to see how team structures can vary according to the specific area of the creativity and innovation process. There are essentially four possible structures:

The Art of Employee Motivation

If you think that your employees’ poor performance on their designated jobs is costing you a whole lot of loss profits, then instead of just doing a total overhaul of your employee roster, why not try to do some employee motivation tactics to get them to actually come around. It really is fairly easy and simple to rouse some employee motivation, you just have to take these techniques to heart...

Jack and Marsha - Constructive Conflict in Highly-Effective Teams

Whether it's two people working together or a team of people, conflicts can arise. The highly-effective team often produces a better result when everyone is willing to engage in constructive conflict on the work itself.

The Imporance of Teams

Many start ups require a founding team. It is practically impossible for one person to have a broad enough skill set to start a successful new venture. So who do you need on your team? Where do you find them? What values and characteristics are most important when forging your team?

Intrapreneurial Staff - The Top 10 Steps for Developing Them

There are two phases in developing the intrapreneurial workplace. Phase I creates the environment necessary to support and encourage it. Phase II is building your staff's intrapreneurial skills. This Top 10 addresses the latter and may be read in conjunction with The Top 10 Steps for Creating an Intrapreneurial Workplace.

A Day in the Life of a Customer

The key in today’s competitive climate is to ensure you invest in your team to ensure they are the best ambassadors you can have when they deal with your customers.