Book Report: Peopleware

I work for a large company. Thus, there are "leadership seminars" with "team-building exercises." I attended one of those ... /people/teams is: Once you learn that you can trust your belayer, you make rapid progress by putting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 22:21:00

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Late Registration

by Matt Caputo Junior High School #22 in The Bronx was in foul trouble ... of leadership and team building activities. The players interacted with students in exercises designed to emphasize the importance of teamwork both on and off of the court After the fun and games, SLAM spoke [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 20:40:20

Not So Sure About You

Does anyone trust their company's leadership anymore? ... building exercises to shore up trust among your workforce. I wouldn't recommend any of those outdoor ... --including the CEO. They were so supportive in high times, praising the efforts of the company's "team [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 15:50:01

Team Leadership event for Alamo PMI

Jan292009Congratulations Alamo PMI on your growth and successYesterday afternoon I drove into San Antonio to check out the venue for the March 4-5, ... and practical exercises I can apply to myself to build teamwork- I really enjoyed your presentation ... , teamwork [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 18:03:02

Teamwork Building is not Leadership

In the last couple of weeks, I have run across a number of articles about teamwork and how to build teams ... team building exercises on their followers. A leader encourages a climate where people can grow and learn. A leader doesn't need to rely on exercises like rappelling, hot coal walking, and trust games [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:25:17

On Building Community At One Private Uni.

A reader encourages us to check out this article about Quest University, a very new private university north of Vancouver BC. Here's a little flava ... consists of team building and leadership exercises, preferably outdoors. Some of the activities today included trust exercises and the raising of a student-made Quest flag (we first had to dig a hole [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 10:54:00

Casual Day, 2007

Something like a neutered cross between Dan Pita's bituminous satire on dysfunctional leadership, Orienteering , ... for an overnight team building retreat in the country dubbed as "casual day" where neckties are shed ... of team building exercises that serve only to reinforce institutionalized power structures [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 19:50:35

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