Motivate the team by exposing them!

Increase team member motivation by giving them exposure to people or areas of the company.

Improve Team Problem Solving – Top 10 Factors

Understanding, appreciating and taking advantage of different approaches to problem solving can yield superior problem solving results for high performance teams.

Improve Team Decision Making – Top 10 Factors

 
How each of us process information and make decisions can be as unique as our finger prints but there are some common themes as to how individuals process information and make decisions.  Understanding these themes and putting this understanding to use when working as part of a team can significantly improve the teams’ decision making [...]

Team Meetings – Set the Mode, Gauge the Audience, Achieve better Results

Making every meeting count is extremely important dimension of high functioning teams.  Steve Roesler has written an excellent post called “Better Meetings Better Leadership“.  I’d like to build on his key points, which were:  Decide in advance the type of meeting you need which will determine the tone and  level of participation from the team.  [...]

Team Motivation through Recognition

How individuals are best motivated needs to fit best with the individuals preferences I’ll cover 4 different perspectives which should address the majority of team members.  However, prior to determining how to best motivate I’d like to cover off the overarching need to “SEE” each individual.  David Zinger made an interesting post Employee Engagement: I See [...]

Top 10 Ways to Improve Communication Within the Team

Quick list of the top 10 ways to improve communication within a team and pointers on which areas to focus on depending on the personality types of the team mates.

Top 10 Ways to Build Trust with your Team

Quick list of the top 10 ways to build trust with a team and pointers on which areas to focus on depending on the personality types of the team mates.

Survivor Tocantins – Team Dynamics Learning From Brendan – Commitments – Episode 9

Brendan’s fatal flaw was making commitments and not nurturing them, the same is true of effective teams. Make commitments with forethought and manage them through to completion.

Team Building to Keep the High Performering Employees when it matters the most!

I’m very cognizant of the fact that the follow post sounds blatently self serving as a team building activities provider, that said the facts are clear.  When times are tough you need your top performing employees more than ever.  It can be a tough decision to make an investment in outside services when you are [...]

Team Building Ideas – Quick Recognition Techniques

Keeping teams motivated is a never ending journey, this is the first installment in an ongoing series of quick ideas to recognize team members and keep them motivated.

Do you have a top employee that you would like to reward in an unconventional way?  Odds are office/file clean up is not high on the list of activities [...]