Team Journaling

The very effective tool of keeping a journal can be used in your workplace as well as at home. It is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives and support our personal and work well-being. Whether you journal your personal work experiences and goals, or use team journaling, journaling can easily be applied to your work environment.

Top Ten Things About Team Building

Team Building is vital wherever you are in business. Yet for many it is a mystery that causes sleepless nights when things don't mesh well. Here are a few ideas that come from those who lead the way...

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...

Building Successful Work Relationships--Playing In The Same Sandbox

There’s a tremendous amount of pressure as we grow older to learn to act our age (whatever that means). In fact, most people consider age a number not an indication of vitality, health or maturity. Nevertheless, too many of us leave the things of childhood behind us. This is both good and bad. It is good to leave childish behavior behind, but bad when we discard many childlike behaviors that can make us successful adults. One such childlike behavior is learning how to develop reliable relationships with others through experiences in the same sandbox that teach us how to cooperate, exchange ideas, and communicate. This article gives a seven-step process for building successful work relationships.

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.

Dealing with People that Drive You Crazy!

Someone drives you crazy. It may be because of her child-like voice, her non-stop talking, or her bossiness. It may be his arrogance, his negative attitude, or his nit-picking attention to details. Don't overlook these people that drive you batty--instead discover and learn to respect and appreciate what makes them unique.

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.

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.

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.

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:

Team Building: Developing A Team To Rely On

Team building is very important when it comes to managing people. People are simply more willing to work together, though, when the atmosphere encourages it. For many organizations this is quite necessary for the business to run well. When everyone gets along, things just go better. They provide better service to the customer. They work together to deliver satisfaction with smiles. They also help to promote employee retention. Customers are happy, employees are happy, and the world is now a better place, right?

The First Leadership Reality: Everybody Wants to be on a Good Team

The first leadership reality, “Everybody wants to be on a good team,” applies to all levels of leadership. It is the underlying paradigm with which to make your organization productive. Whether you run a company or a small department in a large corporation, those working for you expect you to do what it takes to make your organization a good team. Once you realize this, then you understand that all the leadership skills that you work on, whether they be traits, principles, practices, etc., are geared toward making you influence your employees in a positive manner to get the assigned job done.

Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Strengths and Weaknesses

The difference between a Peak Performance Team and an average group of people trying to create results together is very often found in how the Strengths and Weaknesses of each individual are managed. There is enormous potential if you are skilled at this type of management and many painful, expensive and boring consequences if you are not.