This program provided me with a new perspective on leadership and communication. The facilitators really challenged us to think creatively, to work together to solve complicated problems using new methods, and most importantly, to reflect on how to positively change our tactics individually in order to become more effective leaders and communicators.
‘The Five Levers of Employee Engagement’ has been peer reviewed and published in the American Society for Quality ASQ Journal for Quality and Participation – July 2013.
Think about it…what if Teaching Leadership did not exist.
It would require More Than Words. More than words to show you feel that your [leadership] is real ( who doesn’t love a Mr. Big Reference? )
Great discussions and smart fun challenging people – that makes TeamBuilding & Leadership work.
Organizations cannot grow leaders. It is nature or God that grows leaders. All that organizations do is to provide some of the necessary conditions for growth, and chief among them is the opportunity to lead.
Your organization and work are changing around you, whether you want it to or not.
Having an understanding of how this change takes place, the steps that people go through and the systems-that-drive the negative and positive behaviors to this change are requisite to this change lasting or fading away.
Team-Building has to be integrated into the existing team structure, culture and goals + objectives of your company. People must see the connection between the team building activity and their work.
The minute you think that no-one has any great ideas or believe that you have to be the hero is when you are blind to your own negative reinforcement of people.
Companies look for a quick fix creating management positions, they really believe will help. When it backfires and creates more problems. They don’t look at what caused the problem, improper organizational design, they throw training at it hoping for more quick fixes.
Working to find the solution that is best. Use resistance and questions as a chance to listen to determine what they want.