Is it Useful to the team? If not then STOP IT!
You follow advice from someone or are convinced that X is useful, and Y did X so therefore it will work for me.
That makes sense. Until you do it and it does nothing.
MindSpin Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding
Working with a corporate team to identify new product and service ideas, we quickly found the team falling victim to group-think. Following a short break, the people returned to find stacks of index cards at their table and the MindSpin guidelines on a Flip Chart.
Strategic Planning and Team Building University at Buffalo New York
The outcomes from our Strategic Planning Time:
Develop thematic goals for the next 5 years;
Team building with the staff and faculty;
Create a shared history on successes and what got us to where we are;
Co-create a shared future and action steps to get to future goals
Forget about Positive Thinking it is time for Positive Action Application to Team Building
Having a team in a new environment or working in a familiar environment in a new way, involved in team building activities and discussions. Will cause the team to behave As-If they are a team and the positive sides of team work will emerge. Evidenced through processing of having shared goals, systems-of-communication, people laughing, ideas being listened too and considered, etc…
3 Ideas for Time Management and Getting Your Work Organized
Coaching 5 project managers, we identified that 2 have concerns about how they are managing their time, multiple project and customer needs, and they “feel disorganized”…
Manager you are NOT a Mind-Reader
Stop the madness! As a manager / team leader you are paid to do everything possible to help employees be as successful as they need to be.
Believing that you are successful and you know what others are thinking is self-destructive behavior.
What do you do when you are stuck? Robots, Coaching and Procrastination
To get unstuck you need to do something different.
Idealized Futures and Team Building Cover Stories
Spent some time facilitating team building with the Gifford Foundation from Syracuse NY.
If you consistently overload your best people with important projects three things happen
The high performers learn:
The more you do around here, the more they ask you to do.
And the low performers learn:
The less you do around here, the less they ask you to do.
Either option leads to under-performance.
Removing Dissatisfaction DOES NOT Increase Satisfaction With Work
The elimination of things that cause dissatisfaction does not equate to satisfaction.