The key to making the most of a team building event is what you say to the group before and after the activity. In so many cases, people just want to dive right into the “competition.” After a winner is determined, it’s over. All too often there is no mention of the purpose of the event, expectations from management, or debriefing of the activity. This leaves a lot of the potential benefit Read More
Make Meetings Worth Attending
Should we even have meetings? That was the question of a recent study that was trying to ascertain how employees could become more productive. The study’s findings suggested that if we just did away with meetings, there would be a lot more time in the day to make progress on important projects. This sounds startling and even like a great solution to never having enough time. However, what it Read More
How to Have More Interactive Meetings (When You Don’t Have Time)
Many planners would like to incorporate a team building event into their meetings. After all, people are taking the time to be together away from work, so you should take advantage of this rare opportunity and do what you can to have them interact, get to know each other better and bond as a team. Unfortunately, a packed agenda often makes it difficult to find the time. Here are some things Read More
Good Leaders Can Use Conflict to Build a Great Team
Few things divide teams more than disagreement. We experience this in personal life as well as business and politics. Poor leaders believe in creating problems and divisiveness by telling everyone how bad things are. They bully people into agreeing with their ideas and are dictators not leaders. Though people may follow along for a while, this is an extremely poor and disastrous way to lead Read More
How to Have More Interactive Meetings
Many planners would like to incorporate a team building event into their meetings. After all, people are taking the time to be together away from work, so you should take advantage of this rare opportunity and do what you can to have them interact, get to know each other better and bond as a team. Unfortunately, a packed agenda often makes it difficult to find the time. Here are some things Read More