Favorite Team Building & Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles 2011
In no particular order.
At first I thought I would do this based upon traffic and page hits, then I thought NOPE! These are my favorites, selfish yes. Although I am sure you will also enjoy them.
Favorite Team Building & Leadership Activities + Simulations 2011
In no particular order.
Some of these were posted here. Some were leaked super secret like to the Create-Learning Letter
Favorite Images Used in Workshops & Speeches 2011
In no particular order.
This proved to be more challenging than I thought it would have been! These are all from 2011 speeches, workshop and presentation I gave, while not comprehensive, they are my favorites.
Below each image is a link to the content.
Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training, Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company.
All goals are time driven – whether we announce the time-frame or not ALL GOALS ARE TIME DRIVEN. As a Manager setting goals “What-by-When” is how you add value to those who work with you. As an employee completing goals “What-by-When” and setting goals for ourselves are what adds value to those who work with us. Determining your own & others time-span to complete a goal will make your work more fulfilling and innovative.
* Keep communication simple and with the Manager / Subordinate that have a reciprocal relationship of accountability and authority.
* A manager must be able to add value to the work of immediate subordinates.
* Innovation happens when people can work on tasks with quick and easy feedback from their direct manager.
Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Exploring the solution as a system is vital in breaking psychological constipation.
Recently I was sent an email from a past client, asking me for some advice, team building activities and programmatic ideas about developing programs for change within an organization. Below is the gist of my response; This person hired me to facilitate a 3 day workshop on Instituting a Successful Change. The follow-up reported the … Continued
Examining the Main Useful Function will solve problems and break psychological inertia that comes from not knowing. Once people, organizations, leadership can chart and explain the Main Useful Function of what they do, to those they do it too-then insights into innovation and improvement can be made.
Having just finished Toyota Kata and being influenced by the use iterative processes for improvement. As well as the power of consistent messaging and improvement, hearing this song is AWESOME!