Facilitating Adventurous Conversations
If you are serious about the performance of your team, it is time to help them get the sleep they need. .
Trust is the glue that holds a team together and it is the most valuable element in a brand. It is also fragile and hard to build. This book examines how trust can be built and broken in business.
This guide is so concise it can be read in a lunch hour, yet it contains valuable insights that will help you and your team to thrive.
Here is a selection of team building activities that will energise your next team meeting, conference or training session.
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No. 2: Recognise and celebrate what has been achieved this past year.
If you are fortunate to be part of a stable and established team, don’t rest on your laurels. All that effort you’ve put in to team building could be lost within moments of the bells tolling the start of 2011. Here’s why:…
As we approach the year end it’s good to reflect on our achievements. It’s even more gratifying to reflect on the achievements of others, particularly those we’ve helped along the way.
Some time ago we were asked to create a team exercise for X Factor runners up JLS. As the video above shows their performance was outstanding and it’s no coincidence that a year later JLS are have become one of the most successful teams in their field.
Our normal candidates for our team building activities are work teams and during 2010 we’ve seen teams from industries including oil, wine and management consulting all raise their game having adopted some of the same principles that pop stars JLS exemplify:…
Have you ever thought that some of the same best practices that support individual employee motivation and performance could also apply to teams?
No 1: A lot of teams flounder because of a lack of direction
Here are 5 management practices we normally associate with driving individual performance and motivation that I think should be applied to teams:…
August 2011 will mark Fresh Tracks’ 20th anniversary. During the past two decades we’ve designed, developed and delivered hundreds of experiential team building exercises.
Along the way we’ve created some classics that we use again and again but we still get excited when a client gives us a brief to create something totally new.
For many years we’ve worked with a water company, monitoring their staff engagement and delivering an annual company conference. Part of the brief this year was to create a 30 minute team exercise for the conference that would entertain, involve and educate over 100 people. …
There’s been a lot of talk about happiness and general well-being of late. Here we explore the four components of happiness and ask if busy executives can ever achieve a happy state.
Unfortunately this is not an option in the real world
Since becoming the Conservative leader David Cameron has argued that we should be monitoring GWB (General Well Being) alongside GDP (Gross Domestic Product). This is an idea possibly inspired by the Kingdom of Bhutan’s GNH measure (Gross National Happiness), but Bhutan isn’t facing huge state spending cuts and bailing out neighbouring countries….
Our earlier blog “5 Tips for Instant Team Motivation” was so popular that we have put together another with details of 5 more ways to boost productivity and create a great working environment.
Someone send this manager the link to this blog!
So here are the 5 extra routes to raising team morale in an instant:…
Thirty years ago psychometric tests were largely administered by men in white coats and viewed by most managers with a healthy dose of scepticism. Now, most people in senior business roles will have completed a psychometric questionnaire either as part of a recruitment process or within a leadership development programme.
In recent years the number of psychometric tools has increased significantly. Quality varies hugely along with cost. A quick search on line or flick through a magazine will provide access to numerous free questionnaires, all claiming to unveil your hidden abilities and confirm your suitability to a given job role. At the other end of the spectrum you can pay several hundred pounds for a tool that will generate a ‘personal report’ an inch thick full of psychological terminology and coloured charts. Both have their place and probably contain some useful insights, if you are able to find them….
The success or failure of a business or team is very dependent on the leader.
I think the leader above should read tip number 2
What, therefore, are the most important leadership qualities leaders should be aware of if they want their team or organisation to succeed? Here are our suggestions for the top five:…
With massive cuts announced across government spending this week it’s unlikely that the office Christmas party is top of the management team’s agenda.
We suggest trying tip no. 5 rather than this method
So here are five no cost routes to raising team morale in an instant:…
Finding genuinely effective ways to communicate change in a business can be a challenge. Emails get deleted, newsletters get recycled and live presentations are easily forgotten.
Team building at the largest cinema screen in the UK
With this conundrum in mind Foster’s Group approached Fresh Tracks to come up with a team activity that would bring to life the launch of their new company identity – Treasury Wine Estates. The strategic decision to separate the Foster’s beer and wine business marked a major change not just in name but also in culture, as the company transforms from a general drinks business to a wine specialist.
As with any change there was a degree of cynicism ahead of the conference, especially toward some of the new values and language being used.
Fresh Tracks responded by creating a challenge…
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