Want to Build Resilient Employees? Build Their Team
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,...
read moreWhat to Look Out for When Considering a Charity Team Building Event
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...
read moreHow You See Your Team Has Consequences
You 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...
read moreCulinary Team Building: The Possibilities
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. Not physiologically, of course. But think about it – some of our...
read moreYour Team Can Thrive Amongst Chaos. Here’s How.
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...
read moreLeading Your Team Towards 2020 (Part 3): Creativity is Mandatory
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 insights that will redefine what ‘leading a...
read moreLeading Your Team Towards 2020 (Part 2): Corporate Social Responsibility
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 insights that will redefine what ‘leading a...
read moreLeading Your Team Towards 2020 (Part 1): Goodbye Hierarchies, Hello Networks
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 insights that will redefine what ‘leading a...
read moreWhy Change Is Hard…and What To Do About It
Actions may speak louder than words, but what do we do when we just can’t seem to get our actions to line up with our words, no matter how hard we try? Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring a number of new insights, strategies, and approaches that...
read moreHow Investing in Network Building can Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line: Part 5
As we approach the end of our five-part blog series based on the research conducted by Rob Cross and Rebecca Garau from the Connected Commons, it should be fairly clear at this point that personal relationships and networks at work are critical to innovation,...
read moreHow Investing in Network Building can Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line: Part 4
“What we found in our research is that thriving at work often is as much or more about the relationships and quality of interactions with others as the type or pace of work.” Based on the research that has been reviewed in the past few posts, it’s clear that networks...
read moreHow Investing in Network Building can Boost your Company’s Bottom Line: Part 3
“You can’t think, how can I do this, how can I solve it? You have to ask, Who do I know who can do this? Where is the expertise? Who else can I bring in because they have the skill or the time or the resources? Who wants the opportunity or...
read moreLearning – The Foundation of Team Performance
In my previous post, I explored why a learning environment is one of the most critical components of high performing teams, based on a recently published study by a group of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands. Today, I’ll discuss the...
read moreHow Investing in Network Building can Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line: Part 2
“If I hadn’t bumped into Nick out of the blue that day, if he hadn’t been curious and taken interest, my project would have been just another project. Instead, it became a huge win…Literally, this fix saved us thousands of dollars every time we...
read moreHow Investing in Network Building can Boost Your Company’s Bottom Line: Part 1
“When asked about how the highest performers executed work effectively, how they produced innovative solutions or times when they were thriving in their career, they would quickly start to talk about the people involved. Without realizing it,...
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