Team Building Resources » Team Basics http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog Thoughts and resources to optimize teams Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:17:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Team Building Definition http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/2009/02/team-building-definition/ http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/2009/02/team-building-definition/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:10:24 +0000 Lynn http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/?p=20 Simply put the definition of team building that I like to use:

Team building is the process of enabling the team to improve.

I will expand on the why and how as there are many objectives that team building could be utilized to achieve and how to achieve those results, but core to all of them is there is either a problem to be fixed or an opportunity to be capitalized on within a team, in other words “improved”.

]]> http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/2009/02/team-building-definition/feed/ 0 Defining Team Before Discussing Teamwork Activities http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/2009/02/defining-team-before-discussing-teamwork-activities/ http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/2009/02/defining-team-before-discussing-teamwork-activities/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:54:52 +0000 Lynn http://www.conundrumadventures.com/blog/?p=13 Defining “team” is a critical first step before embracing the challenge of improving team results.  There are lots of definitions available but my belief with any business communication is the simpler the better as long as the simplification does not reduce the clarity. I wish I could come up with just one but I believe there are two key types of teams:

·         A group of people with a specific objective.

·         A group of people who interact* well together.

 

*interact can take on many definitions but the basic premise is there is some benefit by people “interacting” versus individual results.

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