Building Teams

Young minds are quite easy to shape. International Terrorist recruiters know this and have an abundant source of young men and women to pick from. They use simple brain washing tactics to do this. The United States also has a huge source of young people at its colleges and universities with young open minds, open to both good or evil.

Team and Organizational Survival Strategies for Turbulent Economic Times

People rarely have a neutral reaction to Survivor, the reality based TV show. Love it or hate it, with 51.7 million viewers for the final episode of its first season, it's impossible to ignore it. Given our turbulent economic climate, Survivor is a powerful metaphor for what's going on in the marketplace. We'll look at some of the parallels between Survivor and the real world. Then, we'll focus on survival strategies to help your company get through the rapid fluctuations of our turbulent economic times.

Motivation - The Benefits of Spending Time with Your Team

One of the main benefits of spending time with your team is that it lets them know you're there to help with problems. Of course, you're not there necessarily to solve their problems but to coach them to solve their problems.

High Performing Teams: 10 Things You Want To Know About Building A High Performing Team

Learn 10 things that distinguish a high performing team from the usual marginally effective working group. What kind of team are you a part of? What kind of team have you created as a leader?

Feedback - Confirming the Good News

If you see or hear something you do like - you tell the team member about it. If you see or hear something you don't like or feel could be done better - you tell the team member about it and you coach them...

How Leaders Unlock Potential in Teams

Leaders are faced with unlocking the potential in the people that they lead and motivating the individual is a key part of this process. Motivation is not something that is done to an individual as they already posses it. What a leader does, to benefit the whole team, is to release, or unlock, it

Motivating Teams

This section is an indispensable and practical guide to leading teams with expertise, covering subjects such as defining the skills required to complete a project, establishing trust between individuals within a team, and maximizing the performance of that team...

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...

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.

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.

Listening Between the Lines

As a leader of staff it is very challenging to keep quiet, and to listen. This is the key, though, to getting the best out of your workforce. Take the time to listen to what they are saying.

What's the Secret Ingredient That Turns Groups into Teams?

Working together to build and maintain long-term team relationships is a key behavior and skill of the most effective people in any organization. When you start to doubt the wisdom of teamwork, heed these lessons from an unlikely source... a flock of geese.

Survivor; Are You Leader Enough?

Survivor brings out the competitor in all of us, even if we're sitting quietly on the couch. How can you benefit without being selected by CBS?