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Early Childcare Team-Development Day

  The above image is from a staff team-development process. Working with 120 Early Childcare staff from various locations, academic levels, and accountabilities. In attendance were everyone from teachers, to teacher aides, to administrators, to support staff, etc… Our achievements for the day were; Develop skills in communicating clearly and directly in a supportive, respectful … Continued

Clarifying Goals & Tasks Happens AFTER Trust is Established

Trust happens before goals are clarified, not established. The team members and leadership know the goals and accountabilities before the project team is established. Understanding of the goals and objectives is what the team leader uses to create the roles and tasks of the project team.

Planning, Delegation, Accountability + FUN! why is fun last?

I realized today that sometimes I get wrapped up in trying to prove that team building activities are more than fun. While arguing the learning, the fun can be removed from the initiative. It is alright to have fun!

It is acceptable and effective to have fun at work and training.

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.

LawNY Team Building & Leadership Program

Recently I had to honor to serve LawNY – Legal Assistance of Western New York. An amazing non-profit legal services organization that has seven offices and serves 14 counties.

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.

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.

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.