Team Building
A Fun Way to Make Your Department A Team
Many Los Angeles Companies today seem to be enamored with team building activities, games or tasks designed with the idea that throwing a mismatched group of employees into a situation outside of the normal workplace environment will somehow result in improving their ability to work. A lot of employees moan and grouch about the worthless [...]
Access Your Power In Communicating Using Personality Type
Communication is central to our life – we communicate with others every day, throughout the day. Understanding, appreciating and accommodating personality differences in communication style can bring major success to our effectiveness as a friend, spouse, employee, supervisor, trainer, leader and team member. People have different preferences in the way they take in and [...]
How to turn a Group into a Team
Every Los Angeles office wants the same thing for the individual departments within the office; to transcend the individual competition stage and work as a cohesive team. They want every department to be an energetic group of diverse individuals who are committed to achieving common objectives, who work well together, enjoy doing so and who [...]
Scavenger Hunts for Team Building and Site Seeing
New York is the largest city in the United States, and as such it naturally has assumed the status of corporate capital of America, if not the world. Additionally, New York is one of the most often visited cities in the country due to its huge variety of sites and attractions. Even though there are [...]
Team Building Games Are Valuable Tools
Teams are valuable because of their ability divide and conquer large tasks in an efficient and creative way. Everyone wants their teams to be strong and unified, but they need to be diverse too. In the best teams, team members are able to understand each other and work together without losing their sense of [...]
A Spoon Full of Sugar Helps Team Building Go On
Life starts as we are born into teams, called families. At this point, the task of learning to “get along” begins. Then the task continues as we keep working in teams during school and careers. Why is “getting along” such a universal hardship. Perhaps it is because we are all so different [...]
Employee Motivation, Take The Horse To The Water…And Make It Drink
Finding ways to motivate employees to do their best and beyond is rewarding for both the employee and the business. A successful manager turns reasonable requests asked of their employees into incentives for a job well done.
Motivated employees are your greatest line in defense in attaining quality job performance and meeting future goals.
Motivation [...]
Build Up Your Teams with Fun Activities in Washington DC
There are many different companies, organizations, schools and other groups that could benefit from fun team building activities in Washington, D.C.
Team Building Benefits
Team building can help the people in your company, college or family work together and have fun during the process. As they work together in a fun environment, people learn [...]
Team Building: Simple Techniques That Maximize Productivity
Team building has been around as a corporate training technique for decades, but recently it’s fallen into disuse. Why? Because many of the techniques of team building seem more like play than work, perhaps.
Or because managers decided that the team building they’d already done was enough to make the group cohesive and maximize their productivity.
However, [...]
Corporate Event Planning: Making Employees Feel Special in Baltimore, Maryland
Finding a destination management company (DMC) in Baltimore is easy. Finding a destination management company that has both the knowledge and extensive experience required to make your event special isn’t quite so easy, unless you know what to look for:
- How well does the DMC know Baltimore and the Maryland area?
- How many and what [...]
Planning a Corporate Trip to Washington D.C.? Leave the Planning and Execution to the Experts
Few cities can boast of as many historical, cultural, and beautiful attractions as Washington, D.C. Its parks, museums, government buildings, and monuments make the city an attractive destination for tourists, school groups, conferences and corporate events. In the midst of so many visitors and venues, you can save yourself substantial time and some [...]
Corporate Team Building and Fun Can Be In the Same Sentence
So the top executives want to find out what their workers can do by doing a little experiment that should be “fun” for everyone. You’ll probably get a bunch of rolling eyes. However the feedback can be quite valuable to find out the strengths and abilities of people to see how effective they are together. [...]
The Benefits of Teamwork
Teams are characteristically made up of a group of people with similar values who are working together to accomplish common goals. Companies, athletic directors, schools and many other organizations all organize teams because of the many benefits that teamwork yields.
One of the most valued products of teamwork is its efficiency. In [...]
3 Habits That Sabotage Workplace Success
Changing habits is hard work. It has been said that it requires 21 times of doing something in order to make it a habit. Here are some ways to figure out how to turn unhelpful habits into positives.
1. Never Feeling Good Enough – Are you constantly evaluating everything you do and generally finding fault. Do [...]
Origins of Team Building: Games at Work
Although not really well known to the laymen, the term “Hawthorne effect” has resounded in the social science world since the late 20s in America. The Hawthorne effect is basically known as a study of how high worker morale equals better work output.
The morale is based a great deal on the social interactions between workers [...]
Online Project Management Solutions Gains Momentum
Online project management solutions are growing with leaps and bounds. One example of this is the announcement on PMFORUM that Seavus Group of London has announced a brand new online project management and collaboration with ProjectOffice. Seavus is just one of many, and is only cited by way of example and a [...]
Team Building in the Big Apple
New York is the largest city in the United States and is the corporate capital of America, home to numerous national and international corporations and businesses that are diverse in size, scope and ideology. Given the vast and dynamic corporate nature of the city, it is necessary to have numerous avenues for corporate support [...]
Scavenger Hunt Gaming and Corporate Team Building in Philadelphia
Scavenger Hunting is catching on with how some corporate execs think would help their staff bond, work together and find each other’s strengths in the city of brotherly love. A private treasure hunt for an afternoon outing involves some legwork, riddle solving and the combination of unique skills and brain power.
Scavenger hunting within the [...]
Some Basics on Team Building
This will be a brief discussion on some of the rationale companies use to decide to provide team building games for their employees and an example of scavenger hunting as the next new wave of exercise. The specific example of such an exercise will be for those in the Chicago metro area.
Sometime after the industrial [...]
Business Is All About Relationships
I live in a small metropolitan area with only about 110,000 people. And it seems even smaller than that.
I’ve been doing business in this community for over 20 years. I’ve worked in non-profits, sales, publishing, printing, construction and now Internet publishing.
Very little of my business is now local. But I DO run into [...]
Global Outreach Through Secure Webconferencing
Once upon a time, we used to think of ourselves in terms of what went on in our own country as being very important. What went on in other countries was their own business. With differences in language, customs, and currency, our outlook was very provincial.
The computer and the internet has changed all [...]
Is Team Building the Secret to Success?
Let’s take a look at the two different scenarios. The first scenario is one which we hear all too often, you have a team that doesn’ really communicate, there’s been a high turnover of staff and morale needs a good boost. This is when team building comes in. Taking your team out of it’s normal [...]
Time For Indoor Team Building?
The size of the room you plan to host the event is crucial, you need to communicate the size and any restrictions to the team building company. Remember details such as the shape of it – is it square or is it L shaped? Are there any pillars in it that could either obscure teams [...]
The Importance Of Team Motivation
It is really quite simple, for a team to win or accomplish a task they have to be motivated to. However, team motivation is affected by many factors. According to experts, the clarity of purpose, the present challenges, the existing leadership, the camaraderie and the growth opportunities present in the team can affect its overall [...]
Are Treasure Hunts An Effective Team Building Activity?
Firstly, let’s take a look at the advantages of hosting a treasure hunt event for your team building session. Communication has to be high up on the list of benefits, on good events your team will need to communicate the information to each other.
Getting people working together and breaking the ice is clearly achieved. There [...]
Ho Ho Ho – The Office Christmas Party
Its that time of year again, when summer is ending and its time to think about the perfect Christmas venue for your office party or social event. The search is having to start earlier and earlier as Christmas venues are getting more and more difficult to find as they are booked out months, even [...]
Harnessing the Extraordinary Potential of a MasterMind Group
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.” This is an [...]
Managing in a Multicultural Environment
Effectively managing a multicultural business requires at least a basic knowledge of your employee’s culture and traditions. Familiarity with both is essential because each has a bearing on an employee’s every day behavior.
Our cultural identity helps us feel like we are “part” of the society around us. It keeps us from feeling isolated and [...]
Discussions are Killing your Business?
Have you ever sat in a meeting where everyone is busy giving their point of view and trying to prove why they are right? Where no one is actually listening or trying to understand other individuals points of view. The alternative meeting format is where everyone listens to and agrees with the meeting leader. No [...]
High Performance Fiduciary Creates Wealth
A recent survey suggests that advisory principals may, in fact, be savvier about the importance of succession planning than other businesspeople. In the survey, 33% of advisors said they have a written succession plan; only 8% of other business leaders say they have such a plan.
Some advisory firms have a succession plan that [...]
How Business Coaches Help In Team Building
A Business Coach helps in the improvement of your business performance and image. The coach develops an agenda that works on improving your business strengths and honing your special skills. Business coaching though an individualized approach requires complete cooperation and transparency between the coach and the businessman, so that it ensures that the targets are [...]
Star Gazing
One of my favorite places to shop in town reserves a parking space closest to the door for its employee of the month.
That retailer, like many businesses, knows the importance of small, regular gestures that publicly recognize employees. Such kudos build employee loyalty, inspire excellence and motivate workers to perform at a high level month [...]
What A Difference A Week Makes
Sometimes a little tweak in how you manage your people can make all the difference.
And sometimes, it’s vital to look for something that will change relationships – and that can mean moving your focus slightly for a while.
I’m a great believer in the simple things in management. It is NOT hard to so – it’s [...]
Accepting Thanks With Good Grace
There is a huge value in accepting help in your business, to build your own capacity as well as growing your team too.
And often, when we are given a compliment, or someone says ‘Thank you’, we feel it is polite to gently decline. We say things like ‘It’s nothing’ or ‘No, no – it was [...]
Mentoring the Difficult Employee
Mentoring is not an easy task. It is made even more challenging when dealing with the “difficult” employee. Here are the top 6 techniques for managing through the “difficult relationships” and coming out a winner when it’s all over.
1. Separate the employee from the situation. First of all, it is not the [...]
Team Building Icebreakers
The first challenge you will encounter on any teambuilding exercise is personal introductions. Members of the teambuilding course need to become acquainted with each other and the course leader. These initial exercises are commonly called ‘icebreakers’ as they break down any barriers between team members.
The most popular icebreaker is for the team leader to arrange [...]
The Most Effective Methods For Motivating Employees Are Low Cost
Employees are an important stakeholder of any organization whether it is large or small. However, managers are often too busy with running the day to day operations of the company that little, if any, time is spent on a motivation strategy. This is unfortunate because a high performance work team is actually an easy goal [...]
A Complementary Team
We all have weaknesses. Whatever our roles.
In management positions, one of the bigger challenges is to recognise our own shortcomings and alter our own behaviours. Sometimes this can be very challenging.
Often a hint is that there are areas of your work where you feel like you really struggle, or are things you avoid. Or are [...]
The Amazing Power of One More Question
Building strong relationships is all about having two sides appreciate each other and want to build a bond that works both ways.
This can generate the enormous benefits of collaboration, which is a valuable interchange of ideas and effort that is better than one plus one.
When you are a boss, it’s quite natural to take the [...]
Asking for Help
When we lead and manage a team, whether we are business owners, run a department or just supervise a group of people in our business, we are on show.
Part of our make up ensures that we ‘lead from the front’ and take all that the world throws at us – after all, that’s what we [...]
