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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Since 2004 I have developed a focused expertise on team building , leadership and organizational change issues, working with a variety of businesses and organizations.

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Innovation Conversations with Dimension, Time, Cost

Mike Cardus

Sharing a TRIZ problem-solving tool called DTC Operator. I bought it many years ago while trying to learn more about TRIZ and problem-solving. It’s helpful to engage your team in a conversation about the challenge. Video Transcript. This tool comes from this great book called TRIZICS by Gordon Cameron.

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ASQ Buffalo Quality Conference 2013 :: Mike is Presenting

Mike Cardus

Understanding and various uses of Nine Windows, a TRIZ inventive problem solving tool. Burnout and stress increase when people do not have effective tools and skills to manage work demands and when they don’t know how to move from “survival anxiety” to “change anxiety”. Outcomes from Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation.

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Thinking Differently. Enabling Innovation

Mike Cardus

MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. You can read more about the workshop in the description below. Here are some links to the innovation activities that were part of a recent Thinking-Differently Enabling Innovation Workshop. What’s the Companies goal & how do you fit in? Partner Separation.

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How to Think Differently to Drive Results–Creativity and Innovation Learning Series

Mike Cardus

Howard Zemsky , Managing Partner, Larkin Development Group. Ian McCabe, Sales Manager – Buffalo Exterminating. Buffalo NY Creativity Innovation Leadership Problem Solving Products Rochester NY Speaking Engagement Team Building Team Building New York Western New York buffalo museam of science.

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Favorites of 2011: Photos of Teams

Mike Cardus

Here is the schedule it may change; 12/27/11 – Photos of Teams. 12/29/11 – Team Building & Leadership activity (simulation). Perhaps the most kick-ass corporate team building photo I have ever seen! From a series of Team Development and Leadership workshops I led for the Simon School, University of Rochester.

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Executive Managerial Leadership Coaching: Case Study

Mike Cardus

Situation: Currently there is an authoritarian style of management creating a decrease in morale, satisfaction with work and innovation amongst employees. This is developing a feeling of strife, hopelessness and contempt amongst management and subordinates. Building Capacity for Effectiveness. Resolution.