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Buffalo, NY   michael cardus is create-learning

Hard Skill, Soft Skill Team Building Activity

The interaction between team members and sharing of skill sets reinforces positive beliefs and knowledge we have about ourselves and other people. Too often teams NEVER share and discuss the good skills and talents they possess. Hard Skill, Soft Skill – provides individuals with the opportunity to recognize and be recognized for their skill sets and talents.

Landscape Architects + Botanical Gardens = Team Building Excellence

Joy Kuebler Landscape Architects(JKLA) is a team that Team Building & Leadership Facilitation Experts, like me dream of. Smart & Talented people, who are creative, fun, really want to be there, and are part of the solution. Having the program at the Buffalo & Erie Botanical Gardens made the entire day such a success! In … Continued

The Time has Come to Drown the Complaints…like rats in a barrel.

What causes an apothegm like “The squeaky wheel gets the grease” to be true? And why does it take on anthropomorphic styles in leadership and teams.

In this article I shall explore the harm that happens to people on teams from this belief and suggest an alternative path that purges the squeaky wheel and reinforces the ones that work.

Campus Leadership Development & Programming for Canisius College Staff.

Photos from a 6 hour Train-The-Trainer workshop with Canisius College’s Campus Programming & Leadership Development Staff. Our time together consisted of discussions and simulations that resulted in; Content knowledge of experiential learning cycles and other existing experiential models for learning. Sequencing of content and simulations within leadership programs 5 leadership simulations that can be used … Continued

BOTENGA–Bottle Jenga; Team Building Activity

Creation of this activity stemmed from a repeat program with a middle school group. The focus was on developing resiliency in the students and preparing them for the 9th grade transition. Have not tried Botenga with a Corporate/Adult team building group yet; and not sure if I will.

Building Community & Teaching Reflection at Camp

  I spent some time at Camp Inquiry. 1st with the staff Then I returned to facilitate the campers. With a focus on creating a community where people were open to reflection and critical thinking. The photos below show many of the highlights we experienced.   Special thanks to Clark Dever Photography for taking photos … Continued

Climbing the walls…develops trust

The students in each class were engaged in experiential initiatives as well as learning simulations to develop trust leading to conflict resolution, leading to pro-social behavior development amongst the students and faculty.
During the in classroom session the students;
Developed accountability practices amongst peers
Enhanced and strengthened trust amongst each other and of their teachers
Learned non-violent techniques for handling conflict – both verbal conflict as well as the threat of physical conflict
Found value in themselves as leaders amongst each other.
Learned about emotional intelligence theory as well as leadership theory in a practical “hands-on” level.
Guided transference of Ropes-Course experience and experiential programming into class room, life, and community applications.

Keynote Speech for Professional Development

Provide the staff with skills, tools, and facilitation that will allow them to find strengths within themselves, their department, other departments and Erie Community College as an organization. When exploring these strengths, discussions and process development of existing customer (students, staff, faculty, etc…) and stakeholder (Erie county, vendors, donors, NYS, etc…) interactions will evolve and create increased staff and customer satisfaction and retention.