Learning from CONTENT is Team Building

  Here’s the solution. The facilitator must expose the team to content for planning and effective steps to use for planning of a team. This can be accomplished using a power point presentation, a handout, ask the groups to break into smaller teams for group learning by peers. Supplying the team with a model of … Continued

DESCEND-SION Team Building Activity

Descend-Sion An activity that challenges the team to work together. Highlighting the unspoken moods and behaviors that are unknown to the individual and are felt by the group. While individuals are all in contact, when one team member makes a slight move, the other people (without knowing) move to compensate for the change. This creates … Continued

Making People, Teams & Organizations Better!

  Images of some Corporate & College groups. Corporate Leadership Development group completing Leadership Pipeline. A leader needs to have strong connections and have the ability to critically think through real time resources and capacities of work projects. A Large Company Team Building Picnic Program. Rollerball focused on Inter and intra departmental collaboration. Additionally customer … Continued

Corporate Team Building Success Story

LARGE GROUP CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING   Create-Learning developed an off-site team building retreat for a state-wide company. The group consisted of 117 people from Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and New York City, New York. Existing work teams were undergoing a restructuring and work was being allocated in new and different ways. The changes taking place within … Continued

Coaching Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs

I had to pleasure of serving as the opening speaker for the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program Center for Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership School of Management University at Buffalo, NY. The facilitated speech and opening session lasted one and a half hours, focused on creating accountability and connection between the new program attendees … Continued

Planning a Change

When planning for a change you need reflective and purposeful steps. This change may be personal and / or professional. I am not recommending a total development and then launch. As I have written about before, when you feel over 70% certain GO! the rest will fall into place. As Alan Weiss says “We need … Continued

Team Building Consultant Trainer Facilitator

Team Building consultants use three overlapping, but distinct roles. Each role mentioned below keeps the learning and Team training meaningful, self-reflective, team-reflective, and fun! The overlapping of roles are best summarized: • Consultant. In this role, he establishes and maintains contact with the client, jointly assesses the client’s situation, elicits information, designs programs, serves as … Continued

Analog Planning for Lean Six Sigma Team Building

While talking with a group last week, I was asked how I plan team building and leadership programs. Analog – on a chalk board in my office, following a discussion with the decision makers and stakeholders in the program spending on average 8-12 hours planning (depending on the length and objective of the program). Recently … Continued

Your Content Means Nothing

Attention trainers, facilitators, speakers, consultants and people involved in providing services YOUR CONTENT MEANS NOTHING! If people want information they Google it – if they want to read and watch a 70 slide power point on time management it can be found on-line for free. If they want to learn about communication they can buy … Continued