Are you here to fix us Is this team building
Team building focuses on the present. What is working well and how can we amplify what’s working.
7 Questions to Solve Team Problems and Innovate Solutions
The power of coaching questions is that they allow the manager to listen to the response, and really understand how and what the person is thinking.
You can enforce attendance you cannot enforce learning
If you want to solve someone’s problem more than they want to solve it, you are enlarging the problem for both of you.
Complexity of the Work and the Person
Figure out what is needed & what success looks like in the role. Only then can you ask the proper questions to find the person to fill that role.
Too many organizations & managers get it wrong. They look for the person, assuming that they will “fit-into” the role or even worse that they have the “potential to grow into the role”.
2 Steps for Change Understand the Situation Identify Progress
Change and solutions happen through many people making small changes constantly.
The Organizational Assessment Said we Need Communication Training
For organizational change to work and the assessment that the company just did to be worth the paper it is printed on the Abstract Concepts of the Assessment must be put into practical application of the work. Otherwise you are just exacerbating the problems by causing more problems.
6 Steps to Turn a Problem Into a Solution
Often when we encounter a problem we think we need to discover the “why”. We need to dig and chase and determine just “why we have this problem?”
Chasing the why does not create a solution
Here are 6 steps to turn a problem into a solutions.
Learning is least likely to occur the higher one goes in an organization
It should be noted that in most organizations mistakes tend to be concealed even from those who make them. The likelihood of such concealment increases with rank or status. Therefore, the higher the rank, the greater the claim to omniscience. This implies that learning is least likely to occur the higher one goes in an organization.
Mike Cardus Team Building and Leadership in Kuwait
It was a great 2 days of consulting & team development, plus being in the Middle East was an amazing experience. The team leaders & managers of Zain Telecommunications impressed me with their knowledge, ability to find connections of the team building with their work, plus ability to laugh while taking themselves seriously.
Leadership Team Building and Survivorship Bias
This sycophantic praise of leadership creating straw man arguments that only the ubermensch can fulfill, causes unfulfilled desire to emulate the few who were lucky, or born with privilege or amassed success.