Mastermind Team: Do You Have One?

The key to life is to be around the people who will empower you to reach the next level in life! In order to exceed your present reach, you need to be around people who will help you stretch a little farther. The secret to a productive mastermind team is for you to surround yourself with people who you can always learn from. A sign of a very intelligent person is to be smart enough to realize that you need to learn from others who can contribute to your WHY in life.

Feedback For Learning Can Turn Your Team Into Winners

Recently the American Management Association conducted a survey that gives us some insight on how feedback works. The study showed that when constructive and positive feedback are delivered simultaneously, neither one achieves the intended objective.

Do You Want to Get Others to Improve Their Performance? Then Expect the Best

Get your team to reach higher performance levels than ever before. It's easy when you follow these simple steps.

Outdoor Team Development - Harmless Fun or Serious Learning?

Looking to build your team into a top performing one? The try a different method than simply putting them through the theory.

Brainstorm

Ever lost for ideas while working in a group? One of the most often-used technique for generating many ideas is Brainstorming. Alex Osborn, a partner in an advertising agency, developed brainstorming...

Building Teams

Young minds are quite easy to shape. International Terrorist recruiters know this and have an abundant source of young men and women to pick from. They use simple brain washing tactics to do this. The United States also has a huge source of young people at its colleges and universities with young open minds, open to both good or evil.

Recruiting Government Workers As Franchisees

Many believe a leaner government promotes better freedoms with respect to free enterprise and the right to free contract. Leaner governments make fewer laws because of their enforcement capabilities. Under our current direction with high government debt loads and low unemployment we will begin to see a downsizing of government at every level.

Motivation - Don't Make Your Team Uncomfortable

There's always going to be members of your team who are really keen to spend time with you and others who are less so. However, you must spend time with everyone - more with some and less with others.

Team Building Part 2: Honesty is the Key!

Part 2 of an article condensed from a seminar presented by John Roberts of JayrConsulting Ltd on really effective team building without all the jargon and hype of current training methods...

How to Align Your Team through Change

Learn about the Eight Principles for Purposeful Alignment – the key for getting your team fully behind a change initiative, and ways to create new ways of thinking and behaving to support the change.

Story Telling With a Purpose

Strategically-used stories can help us communicate more effectively by adding emotion or context, providing proof, or giving us a chance to poke fun at ourselves.

Team Journaling

The very effective tool of keeping a journal can be used in your workplace as well as at home. It is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives and support our personal and work well-being. Whether you journal your personal work experiences and goals, or use team journaling, journaling can easily be applied to your work environment.

Manage Expectations to Reduce Everyday Frustrations

Just today my partner Russ and I sat down to hash out a nagging frustration. It took a little bantering back and forth [not without some rise in emotional tension I’ll have you know] until we got at the heart of the issue. Unmet expectations!

Top Ten Things About Team Building

Team Building is vital wherever you are in business. Yet for many it is a mystery that causes sleepless nights when things don't mesh well. Here are a few ideas that come from those who lead the way...

The Secret of Successful Events

Events are becoming more popular with companies as they seek to motivate employees and redress the work / life balance issue. Has a Professor from the University of Cardiff explained the feelgood factor of outdoor events using science?