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 […]
Category Archives: Educators Teambuilding
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Oct
Oct
Most speakers, if you ask them what transformation their audiences experience, will give you a list of topics they cover. That’s not transformation. That’s a table of contents. And here’s the uncomfortable reality for anyone who books speakers for a living: most of the people who walked into your last conference feeling disconnected, disengaged, or […]
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Oct
Oct
Stop Searching for a Team Building Facilitator Near Me Proximity is the worst reason to hire a team building facilitator. I understand why people search that way. You have a date on the calendar, a budget that has to get spent, and a room full of people who are not working together as well as […]
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Sep
Sep
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
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 […]
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Aug
Aug
The fix for bad leadership is not a bigger brain. It is a shorter list. A surgeon and a Wharton professor arrived at the same answer from two completely different worlds, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It has nothing to do with charisma, and everything to do with what you actually […]
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Jul
Jul
Culture neglect is the most expensive mistake most leaders never see on a budget line. You have poured real money into your organization. Talent you competed to hire. A strategy you spent months debating. Software, training, offsites, consultants. All of it aimed at getting your team to perform. And then, without anyone deciding to, the […]
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Jun
Jun
Informed employees are not the same as ready ones. And ready is the only result that actually matters. A 2026 national study of U.S. hospitality and food service workers by Attensi surveyed 505 employed adults and found that 41% of all workers would choose better training over a 5% pay increase, a figure that climbs […]
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May
May
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
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. […]