New Door to One Word Team Building Activity

Here is an opening activity that I use in DiSC Workshops. The purpose is to open the understanding of perceptual awareness and that we all existing epistemic beliefs about ourselves, others, and our organization. By having people go through this exercise then talking about how we are our own blocks to communication and improved performance will create some “a ha” moments.

My Goal is too…SHUT UP your going to ruin it!

My definition of a goal is a what by when. As mentioned in the video just stating a goal out loud creates a false perception that it has already been accomplished – Because people forget the WHEN.

Thinking Thoughts Changes the thoughts you are thinking.

Every time you pull up a memory, feeling, thought, idea it is impacted by your current situation, experience and self. You can never keep that thought as pure as it was when you experienced it the first time. Because you can never be the same person you were when you experienced it.

Eliminating Negative to Increase Positive

I have a flawed and incomplete understanding of what it feels like to work for me.
Because I wield power over others, I am at great risk of acting like an insensitive jerk — and not realizing it.
Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive.

Perceptions of Challenge Courses We have already done that

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

Paradigm Shift – Which map are you working with?

Teams reach a level of success and think if we just do this faster, better cheaper we will continue to progress. The reality is that the team will only get to a certain point – I call it the “Plateau.” Following the Plateau comes the – “Crash” – the crash occurs when the team loses … Continued