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.

Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College

Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.
Thinking Through Innovation
A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices.

Meeting Zombies How to Avoid Your Brain Being Eaten

You have been a meeting zombie, I have been a meeting zombie…We both are guilty of spreading the Zombie virus to others in the meeting room.
How can this be avoided?
There are a couple things.
Meeting Zombies thrive on apathy and mistrust

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.

Steps to High Performance Teams

For managers, team leaders and team members to accomplish team goals a model that is visual and prescriptive is needed. Allowing everyone to see where the team currently is, what to do next, and what to do if the team becomes stuck.

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

6 Questions to Define a Teams Purpose

A team can be effective only if the teams purpose is important to the organization. When a team’s purpose isn’t important, the team members have little commitment.