I had the pleasure of working with Creative Themes facilitating a team building and leadership program with Nazareth College in Rochester NY. The college brought all the Resident Advisors and Directors to Creative Themes Day Camp for a great day of Team Development
I was in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania working with a corporate group and a teacher group. The corporate group was not alright with me disclosing who they were so, I will say it was great and we created an amazing process to solve problems and make decisions.
Ensuring that those in managerial leadership are effectively exercising their responsibility to manage staff is a key accountability. Here are 4 Questions to consider about key systems and processes that all managers must ensure that every one of their subordinate managers are doing consistently and effectively. No manager is exempt from doing these things.
We believe what we believe and that those who do not believe what we believe to be true we think are stupid, ignorant, foreign, different, rude, smelly, not good citizens, etc…
It is the above areas of uncertainty and how you handle it, based upon your knowledge, that makes you a valuable asset to the team. Human judgment and the ability to apply existing knowledge and potential new skilled knowledge, is the driver of all organization and individual progress leading to personal satisfaction with work.
Sky Bottle Commander.
Team Building activity that requires planning, communication and action. The team is challenged with creating a complex plan that is seperate from where the work takes place. Then as the team encounters the work, adjustments and changes must be made for success.
This team building activity is meant to model the challenges of planning and being flexible enough to change as needed.
“I hate doing these yearly performance evaluations”
“What is it you hate so much?”
“They are no-where near accurate and often times I feel forced to use recent information to determine employee performance.”
“What would be better?” His eyes starred at the ceiling and I could tell the thought was there.
With an unclear foundation of work, people operate off the culture, norms and expectations (whether implicit or explicit) of the organization who they are working with and their direct managers.
Edmonson also point to exactly what team-building is “Many groups no longer have the time to go off-line for team building activities.” TeamBuilding must now happen in real time with the work teams are tasked with.
So this week I felt the need to share something that I know is a challenge and we as professionals need to continually focus and strive towards mastery on. The use of clear and distinct language that is understood by those you are talking with, your peer group, and you…