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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Seven Steps to Planning a Useful Team Building Event

Great Results Team Building

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.

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5 Steps To Team Building. It is not team building activities, it is team structure and accountability

Mike Cardus

The team knows what the Project Manager / Team Leaders is accountable for. 2: Does the team and each person know what to do? Team goals are known and understood. Everyone knows what ‘Done’ will look like and how the team will know it has achieved the goal. Which do you do well?

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The POINT Feedback Model – When You POINT at Problems, You Have More Effective Conversations

Great Results Team Building

So… here is the POINT feedback model: P = PERMISSION AND PURPOSE First, ask if they are open to accepting your gift – meet with them individually and share the purpose of your conversation and your intent to help them accomplish their goals. O = OBJECTIVELY DESCRIBE THE BEHAVIOR Second, share factual descriptions of their behavior.

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What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

The majority of problems within teams and organizations comes from unclear goals. Once the Goals are agreed upon and known my preference is within a QQT/R format then developing the Roles and Procedures can happen. What’s The Goal? Create a discussion about the companies overall goal. Flip chart paper. Group Size.

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Corporate Team Building and Time Management with a Management Team

Mike Cardus

Had the pleasure of facilitating a Team Building & Leadership workshop , in Buffalo NY, with the talented managers and executive leaders of Chebat Portfolio Management , the program took place at Savoy Buffalo. Develop a shared understanding of the companies future and goals extended 2 to 5 years. Objectives.

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Managerial-Leadership Case Study: Contextual Goals Matter

Mike Cardus

Contextual Goals Matter. If the goals are too small people feel micromanaged. If the goals are too large people are lost and unsure what to do, macromanaged. Properly delegated Contextual Goals are Goldilocks Goals …They cannot be too big or too small. Anthony, Frank and contextual goals. It can be fixed….