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Author :: Alan Fairweather  |
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| Article Title :: Motivate People with Feedback |
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| Someone once said - "Feedback is the breakfast of
champions." Personally, I think that pancakes, crispy bacon
and maple syrup are the breakfast of champions. However
there's no doubt that giving people feedback is absolutely
vital to ensure a motivated team who'll deliver results.One of the top three factors that motivate people at work is
- feedback.The majority of people want to know how they're doing at
work. They want to know when they're doing well and they
want to know when they could be doing better. There are a
small minority of people who don't want feedback at all; but
let's face it; you don't want these people on your team
anyway.Okay, so I'll accept the fa (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Alan Fairweather |
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| Article Title :: Feedback - Confirming the Good News |
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| The feedback I'm talking about here isn't some sort of
formalised appraisal that takes place with your team members
every month, or every six months or once a year. This
feedback happens continually and it happens when you see or
hear something you want to give feedback on. The trick is -
keep it simple.If you see or hear something you do like - you tell the team
member about it. If you see or hear something you don't like
or feel could be done better - you tell the team member
about it and you coach them.Confirming Feedback is about giving the good news. It's
about confirming to your team member that you approve of
whatever it is you've seen them do or heard them say. It's (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Alan Fairweather |
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| Article Title :: Feedback - How to Make it Effective |
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| Let's look at the detail of giving feedback. Whether you
want to reinforce behaviour - Confirming feedback or change
unacceptable behaviour - Productive feedback, there are
certain steps you need to follow to make it work.1. Do it ASAP - When you see or hear something you do or
don't like you need to say something right away. If it's
Confirming feedback it's not much use saying something
months later. - "I liked the way you handled that difficult
customer a couple of months ago Dave." Dave is going to have
a bit of a problem remembering that situation and the effect
of the feedback is totally wasted.It also makes sense to give Dave Productive feedback as soon
as you see or h (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Rick David |
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| Article Title :: Safety First - Five Reasons to Hold a Routine Safety Meeting |
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| Workplace safety is important to all businesses for ethical, legal and financial reasons. Keeping employees safe from injury is the right thing to do, it also keeps a business away from civil litigation and can lower costly compensation claims.Many larger companies are establishing full-time safety coordinators whose job is solely devoted to safety issues. Smaller companies can assign competent people to dedicate a small portion of time instilling good safety habits in employees.Here are five good reasons to hold a short monthly safety meeting with a well-defined agenda.1) Commitment - For workers to take safety issues seriously, the business must take it seriously fi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Michele Webb |
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| Article Title :: How Leaders Unlock Potential in Teams |
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| Leaders are faced with unlocking the potential in the people that they lead and motivating the individual is a key part of this process. Motivation is not something that is done to an individual as they already posses it. What a leader does, to benefit the whole team, is to release, or unlock, it. Here are seven ways leaders unlock potential in people.1. Leaders share their vision and values. Vision is what the team aspires to. Some visions may not ever be reachable, yet by their very existence they inspire, excite and motivate people to turn them into a reality. Where the vision comes from, however, is less important than whether team members fully share the vision. Where d (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Tony Marven |
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| Article Title :: How to Align Your Team through Change |
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| Eight Principles for Purposeful AlignmentEffective teamwork requires individual members of the team to be connected by, and aligned to a common purpose, values and sense of identity. Sometimes individuals can drift away from the team as a result of the mental limitations they create about their work and role.The following eight principles can be considered as a guide to the type of thinking and action that will serve you well in your interactions with your colleagues:1. Success starts with clarity of purpose
Successful people, in whatever way you want to think about success, have a very strong sense of purpose. This applies as much to their life as it does to eac (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Philip Lye |
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| Article Title :: Team Work - A Challenge of Character |
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| Over the years there has been much ado about team work, the value of teams, the ups and downs, the pros the cons! Some appear to work and others fail, why? Can your business benefit from a team work approach or not?As people we are 'complex beings' It never ceases to amaze me how we often gravitate to negative ways of thinking about others when we ourselves (if we are honest) have just as many flaws and faults. We often find ourselves thinking about the glass half empty instead of the glass half full. Life and business can be a very positive experience.Having been in the workforce for over 25 years have given me the opportunity to observe trends and over time see what works (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Robert Abbott |
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| Article Title :: Story Telling With a Purpose |
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| For a brief time, I tried to sell life insurance. And, the operative word was 'tried' I can assure you. Although I thought I did a good job on the presentations and scripts provided by trainers, I did not make a single sale.On the other hand, the veteran who trained me didn’t spend much time with presentations or scripts. He simply told stories about clients who spared their loved ones great pain by getting proper coverage. Just as importantly, he talked about the troubles suffered by people who did not have coverage. And, he sold a lot.Which takes us to the subject of purpose-driven story telling. I've bumped up against the idea of it as a strategic communication skill se (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Doreene Clement |
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| Article Title :: Team Journaling |
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| The very effective tool of keeping a journal can be used in your workplace as well as at home. It is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives and support our personal and work well-being. Whether you journal your personal work experiences and goals, or use team journaling, journaling can easily be applied to your work environment.The idea of team journaling is to incorporate journaling as a means to assess and track past, current, or future projects and goals. To get started, pick a team moderator, the person(s) who all journaled information will pass through. They will coordinate and monitor the journaling process to keep it on track, and moving in the team's designated directio (read full article) |
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| Category :: Team Building Articles |
Author :: Denise O'Berry |
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| Article Title :: How To Help A Sick Team Become Healthy |
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| Team Building Question:A team is full of animosity, pretended interpersonal relationship, fear of bosses, mistrust and endless infighting what can I do as a team building facilitator?The Team Doc Says:Well, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Plan on this being a long term intervention. You can bet the team didn’t get this way overnight and there is more than likely some deep seated history and company cultural issues that have helped them get into this mess.I’d start with a survey to determine some of the underlying issues that are the cause of all the discord on this team. Conduct this survey at the team level and then once your results are compiled, (read full article) |
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