Category Archives: Athletic Teambuilding

 Your team already knows what it feels like to work for you. They’ve known for a while. They know whether you’re someone they can bring a bad day to, and they know whether your standards are real or just things you say in meetings. The only person who may not know is you. Culture is […]

What Does the Team Need? In a tough or emotional moment, the first thing you feel like saying to your team is rarely what your team needs to hear. Let me back that idea up with the best halftime speech I never gave.   The Halftime Speech I Almost Gave We were playing one of […]

Culture is the sum of the behaviors a group allows and repeats. Not the attitudes it holds. Not the mission statement on the wall. So, if you want to change a culture, stop asking how do we get people to believe something new. Start asking how do we get an entire team to actually do […]

If you are searching for the best leadership checklist for managers, the honest answer is that there is no single winner. There are four recognized checklists worth knowing, and they were built for four different jobs. So the real question is not which one is smartest. It is which one solves your problem. And for […]

Most leaders do not struggle because they lack effort, strategy, or tools. They struggle because they are trying to solve human problems with operational thinking. After more than two decades of coaching basketball teams and facilitating corporate team building events,, I have seen this pattern play out more times than I can count. A leader […]

Every team has one. The person who catches the mistake before it ships. The one who asks the uncomfortable question in the meeting everyone else wanted to end ten minutes ago. The teammate who slows things down — and drives everyone else crazy doing it. Most leaders look at that person and see a problem. […]

Most leaders I know are doing something every single day that quietly destroys team morale, slows performance, and kills ownership on their team. The frustrating part? They think they are being helpful. They are looking in the rearview mirror and calling it leadership. I know because I did it too. For years. A Lesson from […]

Empathy is The Hidden Skill That will Improve Performance What if the difference between an average team and a high-performing one wasn’t strategy, talent, or technology… but empathy? Research from Businessolver’s Workplace Empathy Study found that over 90% of employees say empathy from leaders increases their loyalty, and organizations with higher emotional intelligence consistently report […]

Team building experiences are more than just fun gamesused well, they’re vital tools for enhancing communication, trust, and productivity within your organization.   When done right, these simple team building activities can provide eye-opening insights into how your team functions, how they handle pressure, and how they collaborate to achieve shared goals. A professional facilitator […]