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Team Building Sometimes Isn’t

Lead Change Blog

The improving economy has prompted many companies to reinvest in their employees through team building activities. With the purse-strings less tight, leaders try to create a fun atmosphere and help team members bond with each other. By engaging in cooperative team building activities – not competitive ones.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Hard Skill, Soft Skill–Team Building Activity

Mike Cardus

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. A teambuilding program that is fun, and teams leave better than when they arrived?” All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.

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Instead of looking for the Problems. Start looking for the Exceptions

Mike Cardus

When coaching teams and individuals , many complaints come to the surface. These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. These fictions can be seen either as cooperation or resistance ; they are one or the other.

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Unleashing the Power of Small Teams

HR Digest

But when you have smaller teams that are responsible for their own work, you get all the benefits of cooperation while still creating an environment where people are motivated to do their best work because they know their efforts will be recognized and rewarded. In this article, we look at how a small team operates.

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Fear of Loss of Group Membership is More Powerful Than Management

Mike Cardus

The district managers operated under a control and command system and asking them to switch to coaching & feedback was met with great resistance. For years the team emailed and bugged people, sharing data on who was NOT getting the budget reports to finance. This created the belief that many people were late therefore it was OK.

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Sports Teams Are NOT Work Teams

Mike Cardus

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. How is being on a sports team and work team different?

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