“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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Trust Builds Better Business. Trust Us!
What makes a great business? Is it a great product/service, great employees, or great leadership? According to Puget Sound Business Journal writer Maureen Moriarty, it is Trust that makes a business great. “Organizations characterized by a high degree of trust… Read More
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4 Ways Team Building Improves Performance – It’s Science!
Nowadays, the term Team Building is thrown around more than a deflated football at a New England Patriots game. However, team building is more than just a buzzword. Team building is very important if you wish to extract the best… Read More
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The Secret to Effective Team Building is Time
According to data collected by Queens University of Charlotte, roughly 75% of employers rate team work and collaboration as “very important,” yet 39% of employees believe that people in their own organization don’t collaborate enough. So it should come as… Read More
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Is Your Team Ready? Team Building Can Help You Find Out!
As a business owner, you like to think that you have assembled a crack team of industry experts. However, the effectiveness of your employees cannot be measured by past accomplishments. The strength of your employees is not equivalent to the strength of… Read More
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When Failure is the Best Option
As they say, winning isn’t everything. In fact, there is a lot that can be learned from failure. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the… Read More