Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

While teambuilding and sensitivity training workshops abound, they typically deliver little in the way of long-term impact, often because they overlook an essential factor driving team performance: thinking. How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? •

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of ideas generated.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

I was running a workshop with a multinational engineering firm when I ran into a perfect example of an air sandwich, which illustrates this point. Merchant’s argument is that the best way around this is to develop systems that allow strategy to be created collaboratively.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 11, 2011

When I left my old employer the portable path came with me, and has served an my calming, thought provoking, idea generation, slowing down – best practice. 45 minutes of walking on the rocks, drinking water, and listing ideas on the chalk board…the process is mapped out and now I have the ideas and table of contents developed.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

image by by je@n Related posts: Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like? UnBook tour Tickets are available here. Social Marketing for Team Building.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. That workshop in coaching skills is a long way from the world of the factory floor.

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