Consensus: The Right Team Decision Strategy?

Consensus is the appropriate decision strategy for the most important group decisions. Every member of your team needs to understand what consensus really means. A common misconception of consensus is that it means everyone agrees with the decision 100 percent.

Team Communication Critical To Success

Find any team problem and at the root of it will be a communication issue. Here are some causes you may want to pursue.

Team Work

There’s nothing that matches the power of teamwork to accomplish amazing results beyond your wildest goals and aspirations. Teamwork evokes unflagging spirit, selflessness and dedication.

Cross-Cultural Communication: Grin and Jump In!

Multiculturalism is a reality in North America and for those of us who do business globally. The US has more legal immigrants yearly than all the other countries in the world combined. Also there are...

A Team That Gleamed

Too many techies get a bad rap for lacking teamwork and communications skills. The stereotype is that while techies are great at what they are trained to do, they cannot parlay their knowledge onto others. Because of the stereotype that techies cannot communicate, they also can be stigmatized that they lack adequate teamwork skills. So, what are the chances of two Helpdesk teams communicating with each other to successfully form one team while not compromising customer service?

Empower Your Trainees

One of the most memorable quotes that I heard from a trainer came from a man I knew named Rizal: “As trainees, you are supposed to interrupt me if you don’t understand something. You are supposed to ask questions. But you are not to go ahead of where we are in the class. All of the sections will be covered in due time.”

Business Team Building Strategy In The Jungle

We had been expecting an attack, but we did not expect it so soon. We did everything possible to protect ourselves, but the only cover we had were some bushes, tree trunks, leaves and the natural foliage. If we protect ourselves from the front, we could not cover our backs. Such was the defense we managed to set up.

Grow Your Staff into a Team of Creative Problem Solvers

Do your employees come to you with situations they don’t know how to handle? When they do, they are looking to you to give them the solution to the problem. But most of the time they could come up with creative solutions on their own. Find out how you can help them be more creative and more proactive in finding solutions to their business situations.

Do You Want to Get Others to Improve Their Performance? Then Expect the Best

Get your team to reach higher performance levels than ever before. It's easy when you follow these simple steps.

Outdoor Team Development - Harmless Fun or Serious Learning?

Looking to build your team into a top performing one? The try a different method than simply putting them through the theory.

Why It Pays to Out More Humor in the Workplace

Humor makes great things happen in the workplace. Find out what and how.

Brainstorm

Ever lost for ideas while working in a group? One of the most often-used technique for generating many ideas is Brainstorming. Alex Osborn, a partner in an advertising agency, developed brainstorming...

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.

Business Innovation - Effective Team Structures

The fact that the sum of ideas produced by individuals working alone is greater than the number of ideas produced by those individuals working in a group, is an indicator that team and groups structures are important considerations: