Great Results Team Building

MARCH 4, 2012

If you are currently part of a group that lacks team trust or is struggling with issues like petty jealousy or defensiveness, rest assured that there is hope. Any negative environment you are now experiencing can be improved by investing time in building or repairing relationships – but once you have acknowledged that there is a problem, the next step is accepting that you CANNOT just “get rid of” those negative behaviors!

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2012

Most every client I speak to is interested in team building as a way to inspire employees to claim ownership and create a more cohesive culture. And I almost always share that yes, team building is a powerful tool for identifying team communication or leadership issues that can both be fun and offer insights and applications to improve future behaviors.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Every coach, in addition to having to teach X’s and O’s, has to find a way to transform one or more of their athletes into team leaders. There are ten effective ways you can do that, and I would argue that building team leaders, as a coach or manager in any field, is even more vital than teaching techniques or strategy. Creating leaders can provide your locker room or organization with the positive peer pressure that all great organizations enjoy.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2012

If you are looking for a team performance chart to identify where your people are in terms of productivity or cohesiveness, this one could truly help your organization. Team productivity is a measure of how successful your people are in terms of project completion or work efficiency. Team cohesiveness is a measure of how well your people interact with each other and collaborate to accomplish team goals.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 5, 2012

This article about exalting phrases for leaders is published as a guest post on the "12 Most" website. Many thanks to Peg, Paul, and the "12 Most" team for sharing it with their audience! You can read the entire article on phrases to use with your team by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 7, 2012

Whether it is heard in athletics, business, or even academics, the notion that nice guys cannot lead or finish first has become commonplace. Too many people subscribe to the old saying, “nice guys always finish last.”. As quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons, Matt Ryan has become known as a “nice guy,” and that has led a number of football fans in Atlanta to question his ability to lead.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Team toughness is something every coach wants to improve. Surprisingly, one of the most significant coaching and leadership lessons I have ever learned about building team toughness was inspired by something I saw on Star Trek. Seeing the “Kobayashi Maru” training exercise is where I first recognized the value of using no-win situations to test and improve team toughness.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 29, 2012

It is not uncommon for teammates to ask their leaders “what is teamwork?” and look for a great working definition to help guide their decisions and actions. People too often share phrases like “Together Everyone Achieves More,” or “teamwork makes the dream work,” but seldom understand exactly what they should be seeking to build when teamwork is their stated desire.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 4, 2012

This article on Leadership Insights and Decisions is published as a guest post on the "Coaching Confidence" website. Many thanks to Jenn Waller for sharing it with her audience! You can read the entire article on "Leadership Insights on Decisions from McDonalds" if you click HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 18, 2012

This list of top ten leadership songs for your iPhone playlist is meant as a starting point for you to later identify other songs that offer interesting and relevant lessons or insights for leaders. Songs are a powerful tool to communicate messages or ideas, and as a leader this list seeks to share a collection of leadership “musts” for you to consider.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 5, 2012

This article about a see-saw being the secret to team success is published as a guest post on the "HoopsU" Coaching website. Many thanks to Tony Alfonso for sharing it with his audience! You can read the entire article (and learn more about the see-saw team success metaphor) by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 14, 2012

This article is published as a guest post on the "HoopsU" Coaching website. Many thanks to Tony Alfonso for sharing it with his audience! You can read the entire article if you "Trust the Process" and click HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 11, 2012

Leaders should seek to assist their team in climbing the ladder of teamwork and achieving success with a true culture of collaboration. Pierre Dillenbourg, in a 1995 research piece, sought to explain the difference between cooperation and collaboration. He defined cooperation as being "accomplished by the division of labor among participants, as an activity where each person is responsible for a portion of the problem solving.".

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 28, 2012

In virtually every aspect of your life, you can find examples of the importance of teamwork. But teamwork is built on team trust, and that trust is supported and established like the seat of a three legged stool – by three important supporting elements. The absence or weakness of any of the legs on a stool would cause the stool to fall – or at the least provide a much less comfortable and solid foundation for the seat.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 5, 2012

As a leader, you may sometimes feel like you are leading the unwilling and look for solutions that do not include nagging. It can be exhausting to feel that you are dragging your people behind you as if they were dead weight. Their lack of enthusiasm or seeming unwillingness to make a sincere effort to move in the direction you’ve identified as important may be a danger sign you need to address.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 5, 2012

When you think of famous bridges, team building is likely not on your list – but it is truly an essential bridge that needs maintenance to keep the people on your team working effectively together. What essential bridge did you think of? Probably either the Golden Gate or the Brooklyn, depending upon which part of the country you live in. The Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco with Marin County to the north.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 27, 2012

This article is published as a guest post on Michael Hyatt's website. Many thanks to Michael (and his assistant Tricia) for sharing it with his audience! You can read the entire article by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One very dangerous phrase that people great teams would likely never speak is “that’s not my job.”. Unfortunately, it is a phrase (or a thought) that has crept into many organizations, creating problems and conflicts amongst teammates that should be supporting one another. As a basketball coach, I used to look for athletes who did the little extra things that didn’t show up on our statistics sheet.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 13, 2012

There is a very simple but effective activity that I occasionally incorporate into my team building presentations to illustrate the impact of competition vs. collaboration and which one inspires better team performance. The activity may sound familiar - it is called “arm wrestling.”. I choose a fun way to get participants into pairs and have them lock hands with their elbows resting on the table.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 25, 2012

This article, about how team leaders can build deeper connections if they stop asking safe questions Like "how are you?," is one of many published on the ezine articles site. I hope you will enjoy it and perhaps even take the time to read a few of the other topics available on my ezine expert author page! You can access and read the entire article on how team leaders can build deeper connections and stop asking only safe questions by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 5, 2012

This article is published as a guest post on the "12 most" website. Many thanks to Peg, Paul, and the "12 Most" team for sharing it with their audience! You can read the entire article by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

This article about empowering things that leaders should take is published as a guest post on the "12 Most" website. Many thanks to Peg, Paul, and the "12 Most" team for sharing it with their audience! It is true that most great leaders are givers of their time, wisdom, and encouragemnt - but sometimes your team will benefit from what you take! You can read the entire article, on the most empowering things that YOU should take as you lead your team by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Planning a useful team building event can be a challenge, but these seven steps will help you to ensure that your people enjoy not only a great time, but also benefit from insights and lessons that they can apply to workplace interactions. So, here are your seven steps to planning a useful team building event: 1. Decide what you want to accomplish. This is the most important part of the event – the preparation and deciding what your day of team building activities should provide as take-aways fo

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

When you are in the valley suffering through adversity, or when you are on top of the mountian enjoying success, it is important to keep your teammates and yourself grounded with perspective so you do not become victims of TIME. Too often, athletes and coworkers alike can get caught up in the emotional roller coaster of events that are the natural ups and downs of a game, or season, or sales quarter.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 19, 2012

If you woud like to improve your team accountability, starting a fun “consequence bowl” tradition may be exactly what your people need. It should not only be the responsibility of the team leader to hold others on the team accountable. All team members or staff should actively claim ownership for their own behaviors and for holding each other accountable.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2012

Have you ever wondered what makes somebody a great leader and teammate, and how you might become better with skills to lead your team? No matter where you are or what you do, everybody works for somebody. And everybody works with somebody. But not everybody does it well. I am willing to bet that you are already aware of many of the skills that make someone a great leader and teammate.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2012

This article is published as a guest post on the ThoughtLeaders,llc website. Many thanks to Mike Figliuolo for sharing it with his audience! You can read the entire article by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Becoming a Team Player is not always an easy or quick transformation. It often requires a significant personal paradigm shift for an individual to move up through the four stages. Our culture has not always emphasized the value of teamwork. Heroes such as Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and even James Bond seem to be icons of rugged individuality and independence.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Every high-performing team has people with confidence, but if your group is struggling, it may be because individuals on your team have a problem wih ego. But EGO is not always a bad thing. How do you identify if you or a teammate has confidence or a problem with ego - and how do you solve it? This article was shared as a guest post on Todd Neilson's blog.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 5, 2012

For Coaches, Players, and Team Leaders interested in learning the five steps to leading any group to success, Fistitude is available to my blog readers at a special discounted rate through the end of October ! Get $3.00 off the purchase of each copy for yourself and your team by clicking here to purchase and entering KGEL6KF3 as your discount code on the checkout page.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 23, 2012

Do you know why cliques and silos form in your team or organization? It has nearly become cliché to hear from organizations that “our sales staff cannot stand to work with those service guys,” or “we have people inside our department that just won’t communicate!” Many teams struggle with situations where different departments, or even people or groups within the same department, do not communicate successfully.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 21, 2012

If you want your team to demonstrate more dependability and leadership, then ask them to “hold the rope”. Coach Jeff Tedford has the most wins in the history of the California bears Football Program. He is known by many of his peers and players as “The Rope Guy.”. He asks his athletes to imagine they are hanging over the side of a cliff, 500 feet high, and the only thing keeping them from falling to their death is the rope that they are holding onto.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 3, 2012

This article on why leaders should appreciate diversity and encourage creativity to develop teamwork is published as a guest post on the "Teamwork and Leadership Bloggings" website. Many thanks to Mike Rogers for his invitation to share it with his audience! Read the entire article (to appreciate diversity and develop teamwork in your orgnization!) by clicking HERE.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

If you are interested in truly lasting team success, you will want to focus on incremental improvements over time instead of overwhelming and immediate change. Smart teams know that small changes, over time, provide great results! Consider when you are driving. If you are moving in the wrong direction, or miss a turn, you won’t turn 180 degrees at full speed – that would result in a terrible crash.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Every day, you and the people you work with are enjoying a powerful lesson - because we all have teamwork for breakfast. You are likely already familiar with one short parable about team commitment. A coach walks into the locker room, and says he wants a team of people who are committed to success. “I don’t want people who are just involved.”. “The world,” he continues, “is made up of too many people who stick their toe in the pool and refuse to go ALL IN.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 26, 2012

Everyone has an audience that they are trying to impress. As a leader or as a teammate on virtually any type of team, though, what few may realize is that WHO you seek to impress has a profound influence on what you do and how you choose to do it. Last Sunday, in church, our choir sang as they do every week to begin the service. And while I watched them sing, I suddenly realized that they were not singing to me.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 5, 2012

This article about trees, storms, and team loyalty is published as an ezine article, but is a powerful reminder as teammates go into their fall and winter seasons. If you have not had the opportunity to read through the collection of articles on the ezine site, I encourage you to take a look! You can read the entire article on trees, storms, and team loyalty by clicking HERE.

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