Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Today, team members may work together on the same project but be in different time zones, working in different divisions, and even reporting to different bosses.

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Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Today, team members may work together on the same project but be in different time zones, working in different divisions, and even reporting to different bosses.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 23, 2021

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. As a basketball player, Michael learned teamwork, courage, adaptability, and much more.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team by Starbucker on March 15, 2010 They are often thrown into their jobs head first. We have all had those positions where we are left to “figure things out&# for ourselves.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

Jesse Lyn Stoner is truly a thought leader who has worked closely with leaders for over 25 years helping them create collaborative, engaged organizations that make a powerful and positive impact on the world. Over to the posts from Jesse that I enjoyed reading: Why Good Teams Make Bad Decisions. James Lawther’s SquawkPoint Blog.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

The January 2011 issue of my newsletter featured a selection of hilariously inaccurate predictions about 1993 made in 1893, a few funny failed predictions from the 1400s to 2000s, and a short list of insanely wrong comments (e.g. Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 27, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 Team Sports - How They Help Teens I remember a conversation I had at a dinner party a few years ago. I think its a matter of people forming positive behavior patterns. I said, "Well, for one thing, involvement in team sports can make a big difference in setting people up success."

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 11, 2013

He said, “We only have had a swimming team four years.” He replied, “The coach had a simple philosophy, if you want a football team you get some horses, if you want a swim team you get some fishes.” Chad Smith, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1999 to 2011, grew its assets from $150 million to $1.2

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. However, a great place to start is with a positive, self-affirming value system. Loyalty Where is the loyalty?

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Related posts: Social Marketing for Team Building. Register Below. Listen to the Recording Buffalo’s Social Media Event of the Year!

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

  Eric Klen presents The problem with being positive posted at Dharma Consulting.    Nissim Ziv presents Teamwork Motivation: How to Motivate a Team? Simmons - Positive Organizational Behavior.   Eric Klen presents The problem with being positive posted at Dharma Consulting. 

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’ve also used it as a manager as a way to assess and develop my own team. I’ve had teams (often engineers) try to overcomplicate it, by adding more boxes, definitions for each box, and all kinds of bells and whistles. Facilitates shared ownership, teamwork. A lack of assessment criteria, or inconsistent criteria.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 11, 2010

"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi, American professional football coach “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. February 4, 2011 5:14 AM Meredith Bell said.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 20, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011 Words of Wisdom from Michael Jordan Michael Jordan is now 48 years old. And hes the majority owner of an NBA team, the Charlotte Bobcats. On TEAMWORK - “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. These are my favorite quotes from Michael.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 16, 2012

When team members are brought on hastily or for the wrong reasons, it can quickly stifle growth, create discord among co-workers and eventually bring a business’ effectiveness down to an unsustainable level, one that could put an entire organization at risk. What is driving the candidate to want a spot on your team?

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. Early in 2012, the team created ideas to impact each of these areas and voted on innovation as the common denominator. The Innovation Group is Born.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon About the Reference Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture a business novel by Jon Gordon illustrates the significant impact senior leaders have on setting and nurturing their organization’s culture. Consider leaving a comment! Consider leaving a comment!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Next time you face a workplace cutback, consider these four points: Adversity Is A Team-Building Opportunity – After discovering that we would be waiting a month for a permanent solution, our family members had a brainstorming session. According to India’s most recent census data (2011), only 11.04 and 99 percent of U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Talk about this with your team, as early in the year as possible. THEN , dive in.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked up around the building. Whether or not goals are met entirely, movement toward them develops teamwork and is valuable to the company. Alona has been with CMI since February 2011. About the Authors.

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QAspire

JULY 29, 2010

Set expectations of your team on what “value” means to you and to the customer? And boy was he right - that project was a model project of teamwork and comeraderie, as well as very successful, because we focused on value. Shared statistical reports with the top management. Early in the project cycle? Glad you did that.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Whether the topic is business excellence, leadership, teamwork, building a winning organizational culture… I try to take massive amounts of research and years and years of personal experience as a business executive – and boil it all down to the essential, fundamental things that make up the foundation of success.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 11, 2010

Fast Friday with David Roberts, my dad, and former coach of the Canadian Rugby team → Fast Friday with Joe Chidley, SVP Corporate & Public Affairs, Veritas Communications Posted on June 11, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment Sometimes the best leadership lessons are ones that are given to us very early in our lives.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Whether through blog posts, comments, posted videos, or other methods, it’s easy – and prudent – to use social media to give others an extra positive push. Foster teamwork. Collaborate with your team to be more productive. Inspire and motivate. Don’t ignore messages or wait weeks to respond to them.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 6, 2011

← RoundtableTalk: Top posts of 2010 Culture eats strategy for lunch… and it will eat leaders too → Captain Owen Honors: no honour in this career debacle Posted on January 6, 2011 by LeaderTalker | 6 Comments So Captain Owen Honors of the USS Enterprise (seriously, Hollywood couldn’t do better with these names!)

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 19, 2010

For leaders, the flick offers some interesting lessons in what can happen with a great team and a focus on your long-term goals. Teams form around the need to achieve a common purpose. Leadership lesson: Focus on being great at where you are now…not lobbying for the position you’re trying to get to. Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 9, 2010

Posted on March 9, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment During the height of the 80’s talk show wars, an upstart named Oprah Winfrey told her team to stop looking at Sally Jesse Raphael et al and said “we’re running our own race here”. I’ve seen people get positively livid over a $500 annual difference.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

If you’re heading up any team that makes big purchase decisions, chances are you have vendors who are treating you like long-lost cousins. Anyone who has experienced losing a power position job knows exactly what I’m talking about. After all, it’s the position that really had the power… not you. Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. And believe me Woo does not like being given any information that is not extremely positive. LeaderTalker | January 5, 2011 at 10:31 PM | Hi John… thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 14, 2010

How quickly each one rebounds directly relates to how well they have kept in mind this nugget of wisdom that Murray shared with our group at a recent PowerRoundtable session… “You’re only renting your position.&# So remember, your position does not define who you are or who you have the potential to be. Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 17, 2010

But before you can start trying to create your brand, you need to know where your current brand is positioned. It’s a good exercise to do and eye-opening as a leader to see how you’d like to be perceived vs. how your team really is interpreting your actions and behaviours. Give it a try. (If Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 12, 2010

Last week, my six year old reminded me of Blanchard’s what can happen when positive reinforcement goes awry. Blanchard’s philosophy is that, if you want to get more of the “good behaviours” from employees you need to reward them every time you see them in action. It’s a great, but often ignored, fundamental management principle.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 5, 2010

Here are just a few of the top tips from our panel on managing yourself, your teams and your boss. With teams… When you’ve screwed up… apologize. Don’t create short-term satisfaction to the detriment of the longer term strategy or position. Personally… Be clear on your values and ethics… don’t compromise these to please.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tick tick… They add a new position to your team… that you knew nothing about… and the person they hired seems WAY too qualified. You notice that your suggestions seemed to be passed over and subtly (or not so subtly) ignored. Oh, except for when that friendly new guy makes them.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 16, 2010

If the total score on your positive outweighs the negatives by at least 2 to 1, then you should proceed. If however, the positives don’t outweigh the negatives by that ratio, then Schulich cautions you to think twice (or not do it at all). The more important the point on your list is to you, the higher you score it.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2011

Learn to use the interview process to knock out the candidates who aren’t the right fit for you, and you’ll end up with a new team member who will be an asset to your brand, your morale, your momentum, and your productivity for a long time to come. It’s much better to be temporarily short-staffed than to lower your standards.

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