by Scott Kress | Dec 17, 2018 | Corporate Team Building Activities, Corporate Teams, Team Building Activities, Team Building Skills, Team Building Workshops
It’s Saturday, May the 5th, 1956. Manchester City is playing against Birmingham City in the final of the 1956 FA Cup. 100,000 spectators fill the seats of the Wembley Stadium in London, England. 75 minutes into the game, Bert Trautmann, Manchester City’s goalie, dives...
by Scott Kress | Dec 4, 2018 | Charity Team Building, Corporate Team Building Activities, Team Building, Team Building Activities
In recent years, companies around North America have been increasingly incorporating charity team building programs into their offsite events. I mean, if you do a quick Google search with the term ‘charity team building’, you can easily find more than three dozens of...
by Scott Kress | Nov 14, 2018 | Activities & Events, corporate scavenger hunts
There’s been a lot of buzz over the past decade regarding corporate scavenger hunts. If you run a quick Google search with the term corporate scavenger hunts, you’ll easily find hundreds of pages of results, with several dozen companies who all offer related programs....
by Scott Kress | Nov 5, 2018 | Corporate Team Building Activities, Corporate Teams, Team Building, Team Building Activities, Team Building Companies
Your work for a mid-sized tech company, and your boss decides to put together a temporary team (or task force) to deal with a common complaint that the company has been receiving from client surveys – the front-line, customer service representatives are impatient and...
by Scott Kress | Oct 29, 2018 | Activities & Events, Best Team Building Activities, Fun Team Building Activities, Team Building, Team Building Cooking, Team Building Events
Everybody has a quote that they try to live by. For some, it’s live every moment like it’s your last. For others, it’s love is always the answer. For me, that saying is food is the key to the heart. No physiologically, of course. But think about it – some of our most...
by Scott Kress | Oct 22, 2018 | Communication, Managing Change, Team Building, Team Building Activities
Chaos is one of those words that none of us really like to use when talking about teams. For many of us, seeing chaos within a team is a sign that it’s failing. When we visualize high performing teams, we often imagine one where organization and predictability...
by Scott Kress | Sep 20, 2018 | Book Reviews, Corporate leadership training, Leadership Skills Training, Leadership Training, team development programs
Navigating a world of work that is quickly evolving is no simple task. Using an all-too-familiar story to illustrate the complexities of leading a team in a half-changed world, Seth Mattison and Joshua Medcalf present truths about leadership in the 21st century that...
by Scott Kress | Sep 13, 2018 | Corporate leadership training, Leading Teams, Team Building, Team Building Training
Leading Your Team As We Approach 2020 (3): Creativity is Mandatory Here’s the bad news: computers are taking over our jobs, but you probably already knew that. Now here’s the good news: this creates brand new opportunities for all of us. At this point, most of us are...
by Scott Kress | Sep 6, 2018 | Charity Team Building, Corporate leadership training, Leading Teams, Team Building
Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the biggest buzzwords of our time in the world of business, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. However, is it time to redefine what CSR actually means? Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems that in 2018, people around...
by Scott Kress | Aug 30, 2018 | Corporate leadership training, Leadership Skills Training, Leading Teams, Team Building
INTRODUCTION: LEADING YOUR TEAM A WE APPROACH 2020 The world of work is evolving at a pace that’s we haven’t seen in decades…so much so that some are calling this the fourth industrial revolution. In this three part series, I’ll be exploring some research and...
