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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

Companies love saying it but employees dread hearing it— it’s time for some team-building activities ! We’d be lying if we said companies loved them either as the process of organizing and scheduling team activities for work can be quite laborious. Let us look at some examples.

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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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5 Keys to High-Impact Team Building

Chart Your Course

Each individual member has their personal goals and quirks, which can sometimes get in the way of group productivity. Investing in high-impact team building is a win-win situation for everyone involved. Having open avenues for communication is essential before, during, and after your team building activities.

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Instead of Making People More Anxious. Make the Learning Easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

Once the team and I found what works we kept doing more of that. This proved to be counter-intuitive to the Human Resources person that was working with me. You have the Goal Setting & Time Span content and field assignment. Instead of making them more anxious. Make the learning easier. They all agreed.

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7 Principles of Leadership Development: Strategy for Leadership Development

Mike Cardus

Effective leadership development is too important for the present and future success of a business to be left to the human resources department. The need to keep this an important goal, and to focus of metrics based upon the long-term needs – kept the importance high. Image Credit. It is a core activity to grow leaders.

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How Conflicting Work Personalities Drive Team Success

Chart Your Course

It is possible though, and understanding these personality types and how to deal with them will help to keep your team intact as you start up your business. These people are results-oriented, and thrive on meeting and exceeding goals. They’re likable people, but their preference for bonds confuses the goal-oriented driver.

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Making Progress Motivates Workers? Workshop for the Buffalo Niagara SHRM Conference 2012

Mike Cardus

Recognition; Incentives; Interpersonal Support; Support for Making Progress; Clear Goals The results of a multi-year study of hundreds of knowledge workers show that what most managers believe , they ranked Recognition as the greatest factor, is wrong. More Information about the Buffalo Niagara Human Resource Association 2012 Conference.