Team Building noun1 Philosophy of job design in which employees are viewed as members of interdependent teams instead of as individual workers. Ability to identify and motivate individual employees to form a team that stays together, works together, and achieves… Read More
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Custom Ropes Course Experiences Drive Team Building Results, Research Says
Challenge courses, also known as adventure or ropes courses, have been around since 1941. They started as a military tool to train soldiers and foster a sense of teamwork in a relatively short period of time. Today, these fun and… Read More
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Case Study: Team Building within the United States Public Health Service
“Groups don’t become teams because that is what someone calls them.” – Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith1 The Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) is a branch of the U.S. Uniformed Services comprised of medically-oriented health… Read More
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Does Corporate Team Building Affect Business Outcomes? Y-E-S!
“Leadership is not a personality style; it is a learned set of skills attained through development opportunities that are integrated to a lifestyle of learning.” – Katherine T. Whitnah1 When many business owners or executives hear the phrase “corporate team… Read More
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Case Study: How Teamwork, Competition Motivate Employees
“Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.” – Michael Dell As a freshman at the University of Texas, Michael Dell started a small business assembling and selling computers out of… Read More
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How to Get the Most out of Team Building
Team Building (team build·ing) verb. “Team building is the activity of attempting to improve a work group’s effectiveness at doing its work, maintaining the relationships of its members and the team’s contributions to the wider organizational system.”1 Research has shown… Read More
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The Pitfalls of One-and-Done Team Building
In 2005, when the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players’ union negotiated a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the league sought to impose a minimum age limit on all NBA players. Commissioner David Stern believed requiring players to be… Read More
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Research Suggests More Team Building is Best
When it comes to building a successful business, Team Building can be a powerful tool. The American Psychological Association (APA) finds that team building activities can help employees feel valued, thus increasing motivation and overall productivity1 . Simply put, team building… Read More
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Does Corporate Team Building Work? Research Says Yes!
Seven researchers from the University of Central Florida and Army Research Institute set out to answer a very simple question – Does Team Building Work? It’s a question many business owners, managers, and decision makers have asked themselves over the… Read More
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High Ropes Courses Affect Positive Change, Research Says
“Leadership is not a personality style; it is a learned set of skills attained through development opportunities that are integrated to a lifestyle of learning,” writes Katherine T. Whitnah in her research paper “A Phenomenological Inquiry: In the Context… Read More