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February 8, 2008 Organizations re-align and re-organize every new year. Each new year brings with it some fresh thinking and some great ideas ... some teambuilding activities. These are all good ideas and good choices. They do not become actionable ... Quotes, Random thoughts. . [more...]

Date: 2008-02-08 15:01:04

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Wickedfood for teambuilding exercises with a difference

Every once in a while a new teambuilding idea comes along, and a Johannesburg company is just the latest to introduce one ... over a fixed time? Wickedfood’s teambuilding activities are immense fun to take part in. Wickedfood ... of between six and twelve players in their teambuilding exercises. Contact details for Wickedfood [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 10:04:13

She Said What?

I spent years working in office settings in several states. Every office had its own issues but always had an admin drama ... opportunities for bonding. Some ideas for office teambuilding: Have a monthly lunch with each other ... . I now offer teambuilding services. Why the drama? Why the issues? Why the headaches and added [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 02:11:50

Teambuilding Ideas #4

Continuing our series on Team Building ideas for your next event. Another of the very popular modules that is requested in our half and full day sessions, is one on VISION. Teams want to spend [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 21:58:29

Barcelona, the city of Entrepreneurs

Last week saw 40 Barcelona based entrepreneurs make their way to a picturesque Catalan village called Camprodon ... business community’ The weekend retreat consisted of a magical blend of teambuilding ... exchange of ideas and experiences, many topics were covered. With each entrepreneur representing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 13:37:51

Teambuilding Ideas #5 - Definition of Team

So what exactly is a Team? I was asked this the other day by a client and gave them this description from Katzenbach and Smith's classic book "The Wisdom of Teams." "A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 21:47:22

Free Champagne Reception at Vinopolis

Book a teambuilding event that takes place in January 2009 at Vinopolis and your guests can enjoy a free Champagne reception. If you're looking for new teambuilding ideas, give 'The Robert Joseph Wine Apprentice' a try. The wine equivalant of The Apprentice, it's been designed by the world's most travelled wine writer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 18:09:16

Teambuilding Ideas #3

Continuing our series of our popular Modules for Team Building events. Kick Start your Creativity! ... of the book bundle often exceeds our fee for the session. Full details on our Corporate TeamBuilding Events [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 21:32:51

Maintaining Effective Teams While in Crisis

When teams are in crisis organizations tend to return to what worked in the past. This process is effective sometimes ... at a slower rate of return. Below are three great ideas for maintaining a healthy team culture ... for TeamBuilding NY . Mike specializes in team development and leadership development consulting [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 13:24:00

Innovation and NASA: What are you doing to kill new ideas within you team?

Does your organization "walk the talk" with innovation? ... resources office. Thomas and his teammates were specifically asked to look for reasons why new ideas ... and development consulting organization, as well as a blogger for TeamBuilding NY . Mike [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 12:47:00

Developers and Sysadmins, Managers and Engineers: Unite

I might be biased because I’ve worked in such small companies, ... ; then we can become defensive and develop clever ideas like a management metric dubbed the Mean Time ... as a teaching and teambuilding exercise is a hard sell. But learning how to solve problems requires [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 02:28:27

Themes and Corporate Entertainment For Corporate Events

Posted by adminMany large companies are using live music to spice up an event ... activities like a carnival or a beach trip. By using such entertainment, it is also easy to disguise team ... up your company teambuilding event is by incorporating and event theme to Here are just a few great ideas [more...]

Date: 2009-02-14 07:19:57

Mentoring - Key to Building Successful Programs

Or Build a Mentoring System!from our Friends at The Center for Leader DevelopmentThe Process of MentoringPrior to developing a mentor program within ... with a strong bond created between mentor and protégé. Teambuilding activities can assist in this process as well as “get to know you” activities during initial meetings. Another idea mentioned [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 09:47:00

Corporate Event Trends: (Under)Stating the Obvious

puttin-on-the-ritz-harry-richman In today’s current economic state, many corporations are now in the mind frame of saving money, ... ideas into new concepts. A classic black and white affair could be turned into an Oscar theme ... , music and teambuilding. Even with budget constraints an upscale event is possible. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 21:56:50

Holiday Gift Idea & Giveaway: Toobeez

It’s so hard to believe that Christmas is less than one month away! ... , an educational tool, a teambuilding prop or even a therapeutic aid. When I opened the box in front [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 23:16:51

The DIY Guide To Brainstorming

The DIY Guide To Brainstorming Posted in August 24th, 2008 Category: ... all your problems, and come up with ideas youd never think of on your own, then you cant do better ... is all of the following: simple, quick, productive, effective, developmental, teambuilding, and, ... [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 10:48:10

Seven Deadly Sins of Small Meetings Part II

I Can’t See Clearly Now - When your team isn’t sure why it’s showing up, some participants may shut down. ... ideas. But even with a facilitator, heed this caveat: The more the boss talks, the less everyone else ... -retreat survey that gives participants an equal voice, assures that all ideas are aired, and identifies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:34:52

Breakthrough To World Class

Note by KC: Okay, this posting in not about running or trekking; it is about public speaking. I am pleased to introduce my sifu in toastmasters, DTM ( ... about ideas. They are always looking for ways to grow, increase, become better, build, influence ... consultant, Keynote Speaker, Coach in Public Speaking, sales, project management, teambuilding [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 12:43:00

I Didn’t Know My Family Was That Afraid Of Me

Mood spelled backwards spells doom…and for good reason. If you’re a Power Talker, your mood will infect the minds of others with severe consequences. Are you moody, as in, “Well, yeah I guess I get a little upset.” Do you blow up or have meltdowns on a weekly basis and then blame it on something or someone other than yourself? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 11:05:01

Personal and Professional Review for 2008

It’s this time of year when I look back over my learning log to see what I’ve achieved during the last 12 months ... Grammar School and participated fully in a number of extra-curricular activities including the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, the S6 London Trip, a Residential to Loch Lomond, S6 Teambuilding weekend [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 11:53:02

5 Teambuilding Lessons From This New President

No matter who you pulled the lever for on Tuesday, this election season has been like a high holiday for anybody interested in leadership issues. Today the news is full of speculation about who will serve on the new president’s team. It might be hard for those who supported the other side in this election to even think about learning anything [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:42:23

Teamwork meets the ultimate challenge

The last time I walked a high ropes course, I realized why this type of team bonding was so effective ... of accomplishment. The Challenge aims to promote these kinds of activities to teams, companies ... . Popular blogs include: “Making a case for teambuilding” and “Ropes Course: Rethink the standards [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 16:48:11

250 things about me.

I’ve gotten the same “tag” that most of you have gotten. The “tag” asking you to write 25 random things about yourself. A list of 25 things is a cute little excercise, but not truly narcissistic enough for someone like me. Don’t believe it? I’m going to prove my self-absorption by posting 250 rambling, semi-coherent things about myself [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 07:00:43

Amgen Tour of California Weekly Rap - December 3, 2008

By Rick Scott Welcome back to The Weekly Rap. It’s time for training camp and we’ve got news about teams, ... for new riders to get to know their teammates, to work on teambuilding exercises, plan racing ... , cross-train and engage in other rigorous training activities as opposed to only slogging through [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 19:09:44

9 Pitfalls of Teambuilding

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Teambuilding The long-term success of a team depends upon how it deals with failure ... of Communication - If team members do not share their ideas, the team will not be able to make ... to Explore Alternatives - First ideas are not always best. The team should always generate a list [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 00:04:43

Featured Article

SPREAD CONTAGIOUS ENTHUSIASM–Tips to Rebuild Employee Morale by Barbara A. Glanz Note: Although this article was published a decade ago and we find ourselves in an even more turbulent economy now, the ideas featured here apply as much now as ever. Today’s workplace [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 14:23:41

Six Roadblocks for Top-Level Teams -- And How to Get Around Them

The September issue of the Center for Creative Leadership's Leading Effectively newsletter offers this article on why it's so difficult to build a senior level (CEO and direct reports) leadership team. CCL's Doug Riddle reveals six inherent roadblocks to successful top-level teams: 1. The spotlight is bright [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 02:16:23

Reasons Your Team-building Event Might Fail

Not all the team-building events succeed. Organizers need to look out for some of the reasons that could cause an event to fail so as to identify ... results though most companies get team-building ideas from only… Read Full Article Here: http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/reasons-your-teambuilding-event-might-fail-757548.html Source [more...]

Date: 2009-02-04 13:18:08

Team Dynamics with Steve Zissou

Dec.17, 2008 in News, SociologyHistory has known many famous teams ... you about what is called the “Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing” teambuilding model that was first drafted ... the teambuilding stages1. The Forming PhaseIn this phase (”honeymoon stage”) a bunch of individuals meet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 23:05:15

Just remember one term from the previous internal IEEP talk by Encik Abu Bakar Sidek, “dispensable”. He mentioned something on being a dispensable employee, where we should not personalized jobs so that if we are not around, things go ‘crazy’, things can’t work, etc, etc [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 06:53:20

TeamBuilding Activity Leader-Experiential Initiative Creator Sam Sikes

Below is an interview that Tom Heck did with Sam Sikes;I am a fan of Sam's work he is a creator of Corporate Team Building Activities. Many experiential facilitators collect and reuse team building activities, Sam is one of the few who is creating and developing entirely new initiatives to use with a corporate audience. I met Sam [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:59:00

Dispensable ??

Date: 2008-11-20 09:28:01

Rant, rant!

*** Yep, I so agree with Blaise Pascal. Every human being has this void that only God can completely fill. *** I remembered this very simple yet amazing story that illustrates the importance of evangelism in our world right now. There was once this pastor (sorry, forgot the name) [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 10:39:29

Thoughts on the team retreat

Image by notsogood via Flickr The retreat concept in the work world is a funny one. I believe it was originally conceived of as an opportunity to take a step back, to “retreat” from the daily routine of tasks and interruptions and busy-ness, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 14:27:57

Teambuilding for Virtual Teams

Every project manager worthy of the title knows why effective teamwork is critical to project success ... progression of teambuilding. Today, fortunately, modern technology has made it easier than ever to build teamwork in a virtual team. As with traditional teams, teambuilding for virtual teams involves [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 12:11:06

ADR Announcements and Jobs

Dear HumanDHS network friends Please find below the ADR Announcements and Jobs February 2009. Kind regards Brian Ward 1. I highly recommend that you get connected to Craig Zelizer’s excellent list - the “Peace and Collaborative Development Network.” http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 21:06:01

Leadership Advice

Below are 4 of a list of 10 items that were posted on Alan Weiss' blog ... a Team Building Consultant everyone and their friends have business ideas and input on what you "Should DO". Sometimes I take these ideas to heart and think, "should I be doing that", although [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 16:00:00

Buffalo NY, Educator Team Building and Staff Training

Small group challenge of Delegation and responsibilities ... children and adults alike in experiential activities, and knowledgeably guides participants along with activities building on newly developed skills. He can troubleshoot with the best of them [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 19:18:00

“Young leaders programme 2009″ ANNOUNCEMENT

YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAMME 2009 The Aim The key objectives of …* Romania’s Young Leaders Programme are To promote and advance progressive leadership within Romanian and European society To create a national, eventually regional, network of young future leaders based on shared values and common interests [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 20:09:57

The Self-Starting Machine and Other Thoughts on The Nature of Creativity, Productivity, and Making Stuff

Hop! (Cropped) Originally uploaded by lisa ... ; making software isn’t an industrial process; teambuilding isn’t an industrial process; growing ... to rush teambuilding was a bit like watering a plant three times as much while yelling “Go FASTER!!” [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 20:11:46

UPDATE: Ignite Clean Energy business plan competition

There is an upcoming event at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in RTP that involves some cool stuff: Startups in NC Clean Energy ideas A business plan competition Here is the deal: Ignite Clean ... this week at the CED is a teambuilding event and information session aimed at clean energy startups [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:50:36

Why do teachers hate staff development days?

Training and Relevance . In a discussion with my soon to be sister in law, Nicole, discussing teachers and education staff development days I mentioned to her that I recently met with the leadership staff of a school and we talked about why teachers calling in sick on staff development days [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 13:00:00

Teambuilding Day - University of Newcastle

Finally managed to catch breath after a hectic last week. Our full day retreat for the Faculty of Education and Arts was a huge day ... exercises. To end the day... a fun Creative Thinking game "Brilliant Ideas!" that had the table groups [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 00:44:33

Gen-Y in the workplace expert Bea Fields answers your questions in a FREE Leadership TeleSeminar

What's the best way to manage (lead) Gen-Y ? $39 FREE for subscribers You already know Gen-Y is unlike any other generation you've had the opportunity to lead. They are the children of the Baby Boomers and are now the largest generation in the history of the world [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 16:17:50

VISTA Leadership Training

VISTA Leadership Training Posted by Morgan Sully at June 13, 2007 This past week, ... training meeting other VISTAs getting good ideas and dialogue going about issues pertinent to VISTAS ... ideas for VISTA Leaders (click images to view more): From Distance Lead… distance [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 10:58:38

Employee Appreciation Ideas

Employee Appreciation Ideas November 10th, 2008 From planning the annual holiday party, to figuring out the venue for the company picnic, ... at their fingertips when they are in need of employee appreciation events, activities, teambuilding programs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 14:13:31

Is There Really Such a Thing as Fun Corporate Christmas Parties

Is There Really Such a Thing as Fun Corporate Christmas Parties Posted by boyberm on November 29th, 2008 In my many years of being a corporate duck I have found that there is one pretty safe bet that can be placed on most corporate Christmas parties and that is that they are going to be boring [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 15:13:19

Characteristics of High-performance Teams

In this post, I would like to discuss about characteristics of high-performance teams as defined in The Wisdom of Teams ... individuals have different understanding, ideas and solutions about this problem. Putting them [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 03:45:04

New Baguio Attractions Wish List

Baguio City has seen millions of tourists come and go, ... pretty novel activities, or shopping on Session Road as being a totally unique experience (”Do we climb [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 03:05:15