Team Building Seminars: Why New Teams Struggle

An effective team building seminar will clarify the various roles of team members and prevent stereotypes and assumptions from determining the group’s behavior.

Landscaping Business; Employee Relations

There are few industries or service type businesses, which are more labor intensive then that of the Landscaping Profession. Whether it is the installation of new landscape designs or the maintenance or mowing of the existing properties; it is done by people power working with the proper tools.

Creating Unity In Your Company

The other day I got a call from a friend of mine about an earlier conversation we'd had. Here's what we talked about: Years before he had started a company which has now grown to the point where it has many offices across the USA. On the surface it doesn't sound like there would be much to be unhappy about does it? The problem was...

Dealing with Difficult People - Ten Ways to Improve Your Communications Success

Have you noticed that some people are impossible to talk to? Do you dread approaching them to give or share information? Have your efforts to initiate friendly dialog fallen on deaf ears and stony faces? Here are ten things you can do to improve your chance for communications success.

Hand Out Warm Glows

Research has shown that the number one reason people leave their job and customers take their business elsewhere is that they don't feel appreciated.

Trust: A Critical Factor to Your Team's Success

What is critical to success by the teams in your workplace? How can you develop the fundamental trust that contributes to a team's excellence? This article explores what makes trust among team members so important and how to build that trust from the get-go...

Leading the Witness: How Asking Questions as a Trainer Can Limit Learning and Reduce Trust

If you deliver training, odds are you reduce participants' learning and enthusiasm through manipulative questions - and that you're unaware that you're doing this. Matt helps you identify how, if at all, this is happening for you, and offers a way of using questions that avoids these negative consequences.

Building High Performance Teams

Your managerial success is tied to your team. Teams are the most valuable resource of an organization. The times of lone leadership are over with Alexander the Great. These are the times of the team leadership. If you can build a successful team and work as the leader who is just a little more equal than others you may be able to pull off everything you do with great success.

The Horror of WorkZilla (Or, How To Handle A Nightmare Employee)

Although self-employed for many years, I have been a regular visitor to workplaces small and large as a Business Consultant, Staff Trainer or Special Event Speaker. When the purpose for my visit has to do with business consultation, it doesn’t take long for me to locate the biggest potential problem in any office. It’s WorkZilla!

Is Your Company Working At a Standstill? You Need Activities for Conflict Resolution Skills!

Conflict among staff and team members are typically symptomatic of misperceptions and disintegrated communication – in other words, your employees are probably acting a lot like this:

Understanding Group Dynamics - Stages of Team Growth

Team not performing as it should? New members just joined the team? Do not underestimate the undercurrents which can inhibit the group's progress. Do you know what these undercurrents are?

Eight Ways to Generate More Ideas in Groups

We know that if we generate more ideas we have a better chance of finding better ideas. Your goals should be to have a variety of approaches to help stimulate idea creation in your repertoire. By doing this you will improve the overall quality of ideas by virtue of having more to choose from.

Team Building - Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Trust

What doest trust really man? This essential building block in human interaction that can either make or break your most important and precious relationships.

Slap in the Face Recognition

You can'be build an effective workforce by insulting your employees, and yet it goes on. It’s amazing what stress and pain can be inflicted by managers who are ill-equipped, ill-advised and ill-prepared to deal with social interactions and situations in the workplace

Everything Your Parents Did Not Tell You About Strengths and Weaknesses

The difference between a Peak Performance Team and an average group of people trying to create results together is very often found in how the Strengths and Weaknesses of each individual are managed. There is enormous potential if you are skilled at this type of management and many painful, expensive and boring consequences if you are not.