Program Overview: Facilitating communication and increased effectiveness of staff and the population served. Communication and unified decision making within the team is necessary to the success of the organization. The team must continually enhance their communication and decision-making skills to care and serve clients. Another focus area is the trust and communication of client to … Continued
Working with corporate clients.Many of them have given me the pleasure of consulting for many years now. At this point know and have a good idea of my bag of tricks have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers they need. How does this apply to Challenge courses and Ropes Courses … Continued
Type: An initiative that highlights the value of cooperation rather than competition. Group Size: From 8 – 50. Space Required: a large, relatively flat open space at least 30 feet square. Works indoors or out. Time Required: 20 – 45 minutes. Props Required: 5 Hula Hoops or 5 Rope Rings and 60-70 tennis balls or … Continued
Ropes courses have their fit with team building, leadership development
When properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to student and work life.The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course (challenge course) experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done.
What team members should realize is that there are great team building activities out there that do not require a ropes course, that push your limits mentally and physically and allow the team to use all its power to replicate and solve work and organizational problems.
Photos from HSBC Bank Customer & Product Management Team. I had the honor of serving this talented and driven team in Buffalo NY, HSBC Tower. The Photos highlight team building activities that enhanced the team’s creative thought development, Problem Solving skills, as well as creating graphs to illustrate quantitative data. The wonderful thing about team … Continued
Buffalo NY – Mike Cardus asked to quote about Erie County Government and the giving of T-Shirts (and polo shirts) to increase camaraderie and teamwork amongst county workers. You can read the quote below; From the Buffalo News; The shirts are a fine tool for team building, said a “team building facilitator,” Michael Cardus of … Continued
The photo is of a team of Screw Machinists from McGard innovative security products. A co-facilitator (Brian Pettit), McGard’s Corporate Trainer (Ron Kaiser) and I recently had the pleasure of leading an 8-week team program for this manufacturing team. These men, Brian, Ron and I went through many stages of forming, storming, norming, performing and … Continued
Using open-ended questions is a tool that a team building facilitator uses to bring participants to examine what was learned. These questions have no right or wrong answer they are meant to trigger thought and insight in the team members. What was the first clue that the situation was not going well? How did the … Continued
“The ruler is powerful because he is at the head of a complex set of relationships. By Contrast, personal strength, morality, and abilities are qualities that belong only to the individual. They are ineffective unless conjoined with the larger pattern of influence.” This line from Sun Tzu, “The Art of War, A new translation” resonated … Continued