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

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

Corporate Team Building Low Ropes Course Conference Center

Create-Learning led a 2-day corporate team development program for 70 team members. Below are photos from our time together. The program was held at a Corporate Conference Center that was accessible to the Buffalo NY and Rochester NY employees. The quotes and italics are comments that the participants made about the program. A piece of … Continued

Team-Building With a Purpose

Michael Cardus was recently interviewed by Entrepreneur.com about Team-Building With a Purpose: Savvy entrepreneurs design team bonding programs that keep their employees motivated. Below is a piece of the article: “Create-Learning Team Building conducted the activity as part of a two-day company wide staff development meeting, with the company’s values of customer service and open … Continued

Team Building Activity Bottle Tower

  Bottle Tower Props Needed: – One long rope approximately 30 feet per team (clothesline, old shoe laces, retired climbing rope) – As many water bottles as possible per team. – Ensure that each team has an equal number of water bottles Group Size: 4 – 6 per team Instructions: Take 5 minutes and plan … Continued

Team Building Program Accountability for Actions and Team Cohesion

Problem: Your team is suffering from a lack of team cohesion and accountability of actions (be they positive or negative). While needing for a strong team sense of togetherness and remaining safe while involved in emergencies, the team has a challenging time admitting faults, holding others accountable and themselves responsible for actions that are damaging … Continued

Team Building Success

Do you want your team building program to be a success? While many factors play a part in creating a successful meeting, off-site and team training program – here are four ways that work for organizations team success. 1. Full understanding why they are there. It is imperative for the team to be knowledgeable of … Continued

TeamBuilding Activity Bright Blurry Blind

  Bright Blurry Blind Type: Creating a sense of community; intra and inter departmental communication; Breakdown of “Silos” within organizations; allows participants to openly speak about current issues within the team and organization. Group Size: 5 – 500; participants are asked to work in their existing work teams i.e. Accounting is together in one team, … Continued

Team Building with Bankers

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