Team Building: Fostering the Team Spirit

The power of teamwork has been known since the times of early civilizations, but up to the 80-ies of the past century team building seems to had been solely the headache of generals. Today, due to various social and economic circumstances, team building is no longer confined within the sphere of warfare.

Managing and Leading Great Teams

Teams are made up of human beings. There are four basic relational skills that we need to practice in our own unique styles in order to encourage exceptional team performance.

SMART Team Performance

Teams are a lot like jazz groups. Their performance has to arise from within the team members, not be imposed from without. It needs to be soulful, mindful, astute, responsible, and trusting - SMART.

Opening a Dollar Store - Employee Leadership – Creating a Great Working Environment

One of the biggest challenges associated with opening a dollar store is finding, hiring, training and then retaining good employees. Honest, dependable, customer oriented employees are key to making your business a success. One of the most powerful tools for retaining employees is the creation of a great work environment.

In Direct Sales - How to Motivate Your Team

It is a well-known fact that managers who focus on the number of shows being held by their team have higher monthly sales. By learning early in the month how many shows are already on the books, you will discover how you can support your team members to achieve more success.

Are You A Leader?

Can you tell me, aside from all the obvious such as positive attitude, outgoing personalities, sense of teaching, etc.,etc., what is the one quality that every great leader has in common?

Similarity of the Work Place and the Sports Arena

What is your role in this business? Are you like a spectator in a sports arena? Are you a cheerleader for your team? Are you one of the players in the game? Are you a coach? Are you the broadcaster of the game on TV or Radio? Are you the referee of the game? Before you think that I am nut, wait until you see where I am going with this.

Corporate Entertainment as a Way to Corporate Success

Corporate communication, corporate culture, corporate event, corporate governance – the word 'corporate' is often used to refer to something 'relating to a corporation'; but it also has another, an older meaning - 'united or combined into one body.' When speaking about organizations, the image of the body perfectly reveals the principles of their operation: each person in the group has their function, there is a strong coherence between the members, and everyone is working as one. This is precisely what corporate entertainment is for; namely, creating bonds and enhancing relationships to make individuals work as one body.

How to Maximize Your Team's Performance

Enhancing performance will not work unless employees / team members actually become a part of the team. This will happen when they feel included in plans for the future and when they feel rewarded for achieving goals. Everyone wants to be part of the team, part of the company, part of the big picture.

Developing Your Team - Depends What Kind of Team You've Got

How you develop your team depends on the kind of team you have. In this article we examine the differences between independent and interdependent teams, and how you should consider addressing their development according to their different needs.

Trust and Productivity

When two people trust each other, their relationship is productive. When two organisations have trusting relationships and interactions their relationship is productive. When trust is violated, relationships are unproductive and organisations and individuals suffer.

Build a Successful Team - Goal Setting

What separates those with a team that produces from those with a team who does not? Learn what the experts say is one of the most important factors for success!

Team Building Tips - Take Your Team from Great to Extraordinary

Whether you are an organization, or a professional responsible for facilitating the team building process of a team or group, the following tips are ensured to give you some new ideas on how to accelerate your next team building initiative.

Thinking Outside The Box - Access Collective Genius

Have you ever zeroed in on something and just had to act based on what you saw - and later discovered that there were other ways to deal with the issue? Is that thinking in the box? I think so. What to do about it? Access the Collective Genius contained in the boxes of others. Read on.

Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings

It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know no one will have anything substantial to report, a few trumpeters will hype up their trivial tasks, someone will hijack the whole meeting, a few egos will get bruised, and the meetings will go on till eternity or until your bladders burst. And those cups of coffee, tea and biscuits are fast taking you many steps closer to indigestion and ulcers.