Can't We All Just Get Along?

Can't We All Just Get Along? So the bill that everyone was eagerly awaiting.. ... . us. Someone needs to send all these politicians on one of those lame corporate retreats where you do trust falls and team building exercises...where you learn to cooperate and work together [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 16:15:38

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Social Media Games Are Not For the Office? Says Who?

Shel Holtz has commented recently on yet another report which negates the popular belief that employees can’t be trusted to use social media in ... to think of the overseas conference. Or the team-building day. Or the company dinners, events or Friday drinks. Many employers see these as useful learning and team building exercises. In fact, a lot [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 13:40:33

Trust Fall Disaster

Trust Fall Disaster Posted by IKR on 01/17/09 in Health When I was growing up, I had braces ... , and I have a great smile. It was all worth it. So as part of a class I am taking, we did some team building exercises. One of these was a trust fall. A person stands on a chair and falls backwards [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 18:10:44

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

West Point trip should help Flyers bond as a team

The Flyers are heading back to school today. . .actually, the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. for a three-day retreat ... the Flyers will take part in some team-building exercises under the guidance of an Army psychologist ... to get to know one another and develop some trust. “I don’t think you can create a team in two weeks,'’ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 23:47:47

TRUST

I know that I have already blogged about our staff retreat... but this one is just for fun ... been through 6 or 7 team building exercises before we had the opportunity to try the zip line. So... by the time I got there... I was ready to TRUST anybody... or anything... even the harness that I was wearing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 20:26:41

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

Building & Sustaining the Right Team - Mahalingam, Symphony Services

Video thumbnail. Click to play Click to Play Mali started with talking about the challenges of building, ... . He stressed on the importance of diversity of talent. He mentioned how it is important to build trust ... by businesses today. He suggested that instead of just doing formal surveys and benchmarking exercises [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 14:22:05

CTF 152 Changes Hands

In this file photo, a boarding team from HMS Montrose (F 236) participates in Exercise Goalkeeper Aug ... security as well as conducted bilateral and multinational exercises with Coalition partners. These efforts significantly contributed to building and maintaining a network of mutual trust and respect [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 16:00:21

Summer workshops with New Voice Company, Gantimpala Theater

1. New Voice Company , one of the country’s most progressive theater companies and founded by artistic director Monique Wilson, ... and psychological actions, animal work, relationship exercises, and learning how to build a character. Work will also include theater games by Viola Spolin, which encourages trust, being part of a team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:00:00

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

hey, cherry. do you belong to the physics club?

Last week, Tool Man was out of town for work, doing whatever it is Major Tool Company representatives do when they leave their wives at home alone ... gathering for a series of trust-building activities and outdoor games. Before he could finish telling ... out "Team Building Exercise '99!!" directly into his ear. Sadly, my glee at this very appropriately [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 03:15:00

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

Improv Course Information

Here, as promised, is all the information you'll need to register for the 8 week course I'll be co-facilitating this winter at the Elora Centre for ... 8 weeks of theatre games, team building exercises and trust exercises, as well as, situational [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 05:00:00

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