Creating Unity In Your Company

The other day I got a call from a friend of mine about an earlier conversation we'd had. Here's what we talked about: Years before he had started a company which has now grown to the point where it has many offices across the USA. On the surface it doesn't sound like there would be much to be unhappy about does it? The problem was...

Go On, Be A Tiger

As the leader of your small business, it's important to motivate your team to achieve great things. Take a lesson from Tiger Woods, and aim to be the best in the world.

Why Is Teamwork Training Important?

Many of our teamwork training activities are instruments that allow participants to observe and unmask the common enemies of teamwork.

Marche, or How Teams Work.

In this story of sled dogs in Northern Canada we see how the conditions created by the driver, or manager, of the team have a significant effect on the ability of their team to perform. The louder the manager shouts the worse becomes their performance. There are many managers who could benefit from understanding the above through this simple story.

Solitude Vs Teamwork!

This an attempt to clearly demarcate the differences and advantages between working in solitude and working as a team!

WIIFM - Making the 'What's in It for Me?' Question Work for You

In the constantly changing world of Call Centers, asking agents to adapt to ever increasing demands, responsibilities and performance can be a challenge to even the most involved of managers. Being able to create buy in is always challenging, but if you can answer the WIIFM question you will be ahead of the game.

Why People Don't Listen... and Some Fun Things You Can Do About It

It's frustrating when your co-workers, audience members, teenager or even your dog (!) won't listen. While you can't control how they receive what you say, you can control how you send it. This article includes 6 tips on why people don't listen and what you can do to change it.

Leading the Witness: How Asking Questions as a Trainer Can Limit Learning and Reduce Trust

If you deliver training, odds are you reduce participants' learning and enthusiasm through manipulative questions - and that you're unaware that you're doing this. Matt helps you identify how, if at all, this is happening for you, and offers a way of using questions that avoids these negative consequences.

Five Simple Strategies for Unifying Project Teams

Every experienced project manager has certainly experienced challenges in getting their teams to behave like…well, teams. But with organization and guidance you can help your project teams accomplish more and eliminate many of the setbacks and challenges that make teamwork so difficult. Get five strategies for unifying and organizing your teams...

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:

Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #5-2 Develop a Championship Team by Creating a Coaching

Turn low-performance players around.

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...

Team Building Skills: Up Close With a Work Environment

The result of these work traditions has motivated employees with team building skills and a positive attitude towards work and co-workers.