Team Building w/ The Wife For A Good Cause

Christine and I (mainly Christine) are donating time and some amazing goodies to  The Buffalo-Tanzania Education Project; Flyer of the Event Our objective is to increase educational opportunities for girls in this region through the design and development of a secondary school for girls and, eventually, a comprehensive educational campus. A key principle of this … Continued

What are they doing? Learning…Do they just sit there?

“Are schools designed to help people learn? Are colleges and universities really institutions of higher education? Do students actually learn any science in science classes? Can skateboarding give us a better model for teaching and learning? Watch this video to find out.”

How to Identify Project Stakeholders Interest

As a project leader/manager one of your primary responsibilities is to increase the absorptive capacity of the project to organizational and community stakeholders. This requires you (as the project manager) to use influence skills and inter-personal skills to know how to and in what way to approach theses stakeholders to create the greatest support for the project, and the project team.

Improvement Comes From Destruction of Now.

“If you don’t know what you will do, when you can do whatever you want, Right Now.

Then how can you possibly know what to do, when you can’t do whatever you want?”

Buffalo NY…

Buffalo, NY   michael cardus is create-learning

Buffalo’s Social Media Event of the Year!

When Ideas have sex. What do the babies look like?
This will an experiential exploration into;

Creativity to Innovation
Idea creation
How social media can create stronger, healthier ideas
How social media can create weaker, sicker ideas
Techniques ideas use to evolve through living systems

6 Trust Behaviors for Leaders, Individuals & Teams

Trust happens on purpose within teams…it is not an accidental property. People join organizations wanting to be trusted and trust that the team they are on + the leader they are accountable too is;
Competent
Accountable
Honest
Aligned with their skills, values and perceptions.

Photo Inquiry Friday: What is your why?

  Talking to Tom Heck and the International Association of Team Work Facilitators about social media marketing for TeamBuilding & Experiential Professionals. I was forced to explore my WHY? My Why as far as why I have a blog, why I use facebook, Why I am on Twitter and how these why’s fit together. Often … Continued

Social Marketing for Team Building. Listen to the Recording

Stop Marketing & Start Sharing click the link above to hear a recording of the talk…it is FREE. A tele-conference I co-facilitated with Tom Heck, President & Founder of the International Association of TeamWork Facilitators IATF.   Some things covered; Explore the pros and cons of Blogs, Websites, FaceBook, Twitter and maybe LinkedIn for marketing … Continued