As a teammate or team leader in any field, if you haven’t heard of Seneca the younger, you are missing out. Seneca was educated in Rome, but had been born in southern Spain over 2,000 years ago. His father was Seneca the Elder, a well-known Roman writer, and Seneca the younger spent his youth focused […]
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Hello business owners and team leaders! Interested in ideas that will help YOU create a more profitable and positive culture? I had a great time sharing ideas to improve culture with Rich Casanova, and the Pro Business Channel – and you can click below to listen to the conversation we had. In it, you will […]
In my experience with corporate and educational groups as a speaker and team building facilitator, I have found that there are 3 levels of servant leadership. Working with teams in every industry, it seems that one of the greatest issues that groups face is the problem of awareness… If someone is not AWARE […]
Teams come together for very specific reasons. Some are joined together for a season of a particular sport. Some are built for an important corporate project. But whatever your area of focus or purpose of being part of a team, at the end of your year… or your season… or your project… there should […]
Ryan Buell and colleagues from Harvard Business School did a fascinating experiment in a restaurant to test the effect of cameras on food quality. In one situation, customers were able to see the cooks as they prepared their food. In the other instance, it was the reverse—cooks were provided with video screens showing the diners […]
You don’t have to LIKE the same stuff your teammates do to be great teammates. You don’t have to LIKE the same stuff your spouse does to build a great marriage. The key to unity is DISLIKING the same things! Let me explain. I like tennis. My wife is more into running. And that’s […]
As a team building facilitator, coach, and speaker, I have observed and learned a great deal about teams and teammates over the last 20 years. And one of the powerful insights that I often share at events is how to create team unity. Building a cohesive team requires you to connect people to two very important […]
The importance of mission statements struck me when I was still a coach and teacher, because I worked at five different high schools in my career. That wasn’t because I couldn’t keep a teaching job… The moves happened because of coaching positions that came open. Often it was just a better situation, and once it was […]
(Thanks to Dave Blum for sharing this guest article) A few days back I watched a fascinating movie, called The Way. Have you seen it? One of my go-to online resources, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), describes the film’s plot as follows: “A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son […]
If you are looking for a team performance chart to identify where your people are in terms of productivity or cohesiveness, the one below could truly help improve your organization. Team productivity is a measure of how successful your people are in terms of project completion or work efficiency. Team cohesiveness is a measure of […]