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Author :: Martin Haworth  |
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| Article Title :: Top Ten Things About Team Building |
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| People who lead the best teams realise early on that they cannot run their business alone. It will either kill them or they will fail.Here are some of the ways the very best set about Team Building...Be ClearGreat team leaders have expressed a very clear vision and with it, simple expectations of their team.Are Fair and ConsistentThey have one set of rules and one set only - for everyone including themselves. Everyone knows the acceptable behaviour and standards.DelegateThe best Team Building comes through sharing key workload, enabling team members to succeed, develop and deliver the result. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Chris Stowell |
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| Article Title :: Team Building Seminars: Why New Teams Struggle |
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| With over 25 years of research and experience, we have observed countless groups struggle with activities in our Team Building Seminars. These groups all had the same common denominators, whether they were strangers or intact work teams, that became apparent during the first activity in which they were asked to work effectively together.At least four issues were found to inhibit these start-up groups from functioning as a team:Task fixation, process blindness
Power struggles
Fight versus flight
Stereotyping
Task Fixation, Process BlindnessIndividual members justify any behavior as okay if it contributes to achieving the end- (read full article) |
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Author :: Andrew E. Schwartz |
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| Article Title :: Motivating Your Employees |
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| CREATE A MOTIVATIONAL CLIMATE: Create a climate where others find long-term motivation. Long term motivation comes from a positive work environment, and positive reinforcement. Usually long-term motivation is impossible without short-term motivation. Short-term motivation comes from the staff working together, learning from each other, and giving as well as receiving constant feedback to each other. Short-term motivation builds self motivation. Self motivation comes from daily reinforcements. Little reinforcements such as good food in the cafeteria, jolly co-workers, and a little pat on the back contribute to self motivation. If the staff enjoys working in the organization, they’re more (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: General Patton and Leadership |
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| No figure in history is like General Patton. He was colorful, hard core and got the job done. His leadership skills have been touted by some and criticized by weaker individuals. Some attribute General Patton on the reason for US victory over the Axis Powers and although we eventually would have won anyway due to our industrial output, few deny that it would have taken longer and thus cost more lives. Perhaps you might not even be alive today reading this article if it were not for General Patton’s victories? For those who want to learn more let me recommend an excellent audio tape series on the subject:“Patton on Leadership”-A great audio-tape collection available at all maj (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: James Coakes |
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| Article Title :: The Secret of Successful Events |
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| Reed Employment made a survey of their clients and compiled a report called Motivating People at Work. This revealed that social events that were both organised and paid for by employers have risen by 31 percent. This included team building days for departments and fun days open to the whole company and their families. There is no doubt that this trend has continued over the course of this year with most event management companies reporting bumper years.The increase in popularity of these events has risen as companies have become more concerned about the so called Work / Life Balance. Work is perceived more and more as a social activity. People spend the best part of the daytime el (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Landscaping Business; Employee Relations |
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| There are few industries or service type businesses, which are more labor intensive then that of the Landscaping Profession. Whether it is the installation of new landscape designs or the maintenance or mowing of the existing properties; it is done by people power working with the proper tools. Efficiency is king and teamwork is the key to staying on schedule and wasting little time or effort getting the work done.One Expert Landscape Manager, Mr. Jon Bitzer, explains his secrets of maintaining his team of 20 employees. He breaks his employees into specialty crew teams. One of his teams is a group, which consists of four members, which mows 52 properties per week. Since the schedul (read full article) |
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Author :: Toni McNutt |
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| Article Title :: What's Your REAL problem?? |
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| When was the last time you spent excessive time and money solving a problem only to discover the problem you thought you had wasn't really the problem at all?Recognizing the real problem is crucial to any problem-solving venture. John Dewey said, "A problem is half solved if it is properly stated."
Below are two simple tools that can help you figure out the real problem behind the problem. One tool, ask "Why" questions and a second tool, "change the Action Verb."Ask Why?Simply ask the question, Why? A man bought a pair of tan suede leather shoes. About a week after he bought the shoes, he was in the grocery store reaching to a top shelf for a container of c (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Josh Hinds |
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| Article Title :: Creating Unity In Your Company |
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| The other day I got a call from a friend of mine about an earlier conversation we'd had. Here's what we talked about: Years before he had started a company which has now grown to the point where it has many offices across the USA. On the surface it doesn't sound like there would be much to be unhappy about does it?The problem was that his "baby" (as most entrepreneurs tend refer to their businesses) had become bloated and lost its "personal" side. Long gone were the days when everyone still knew each others name. I sensed his frustration so we talked about a few ideas that might help.Fast forward to our second call: "Josh you won't believe what I did", he said. I could tell (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: John Strelecky |
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| Article Title :: Functioning in a Dysfunctional Workplace |
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| Sometimes the greatest challenges lay not within the actions of competitors, or the needs of customers, they come from within one’s own company. People new to their positions either through promotion, or as a new hire, are often stunned at the challenges they find waiting for them as they slide into the seat behind their new desk. The business cards have barely been ordered before elements of dysfunction begin to appear at their office door.Does any of the following sound familiar? Processes within your organization take longer and cost more than they should. Most employees can’t explain how what they do specifically contributes to what the company is trying to accomplish. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Chris Stowell |
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| Article Title :: Team Development and Learning |
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| A tight knit team is a group of competent individuals who care deeply about each other and are fiercely committed to their mission. The members are highly motivated to combing their energy and expertise to achieve a common objective. From our observation and studies on team development, we have found three primary conditions that have to be met in order to attain higher levels of team performance and member satisfaction.
Resources and Commitment
Ownership and Heart
LearningThese three conditions are the heart and soul of team development and yet these conditions are not blueprints. Each developing team is unique, and its needs and details of teamwork have to (read full article) |
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