Favorites of 2011 Team Building Leadership Innovation Blog Articles

Favorite Team Building & Leadership & Innovation Blog Articles 2011
In no particular order.
At first I thought I would do this based upon traffic and page hits, then I thought NOPE! These are my favorites, selfish yes. Although I am sure you will also enjoy them.

Favorites of 2011 Images Used in Team Building, Leadership, Innovation Workshops

Favorite Images Used in Workshops & Speeches 2011
In no particular order.
This proved to be more challenging than I thought it would have been! These are all from 2011 speeches, workshop and presentation I gave, while not comprehensive, they are my favorites.
Below each image is a link to the content.

Gossip in Teams Changes Your View of the Team

With a person, department or manager gossip changes the way we view the person being gossiped about while at the same time altering the effectiveness of ourselves, teams, and organizations to be successful.

Team Building With Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Buffalo

Images from a Team Building program facilitated for Consumer Credit Counseling Services of Buffalo NY (CCCS)
The objectives of this meeting were;

To unveil the newly re-worked Mission : Vision : Values to the staff.
For the operations team to explain the process and necessary support needed from the staff for a successful implementation of the Mission : Vision : Values.
All team members to discuss and determine action steps for the future development of CCCS.
To have fun, and learn from each other.

MORALE

Where each member

Feel sure of his own niche,
Stands on his own abilities
And works out his own solutions
– Knowing he is
Part of a team

Leaders develop structure for teams

One key component of high level leadership is the ability to put together this team with the right range and balance of skill, while ensuring that the structure and skill sets that people contain are being properly utilized.
To develop the right range and balance of skills people and teams need both skill based and people based training combined with the ability to display their;

Potential capability
Values and commitment
Skilled knowledge.

Trapping Learning Requires Questions

Every Team Building & Leadership program engages people and learning on different levels. The challenge is how to retain and transfer the ideas, skills, and plans into action?
This requires a trap! The video illustrates a processing & reflection based initiative. Active processing works to take an existing idea, combine it with a new skill and develop a connection within your habits and brain.

Team Building & Leadership; Sample Program

Providing the leadership team with skills, tools, and facilitation that will allow them to find strengths within themselves, their department, other departments and the organization.
While exploring these strengths discussions and process development of existing customer and stakeholder interactions will evolve and create increased staff and customer satisfaction and retention.