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.
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◀ 1 2 3 ▶Trust is a two way street, and developing trust within your team can be a key strategy to driving the business forward.
Our blindfolded 4x4 driving course is a great trust exercise
We recently re-discovered this piece from the Times (March 3, 2005) about our blindfolded 4×4 driving course. A perfect event for demonstrating and developing trust… and a lot of fun to boot….
Your team’s been restructured, jobs are safe so why aren’t they happy? Here are some tips to help your team move from confusion to certainty:
England Rugby Captain has skippered a transformed team by building trust. “You have to do two things: play your own game, because that’s what got you there in the first place, and trust all the other leaders out there to help you. Trust the guy doing the line-out to do the right thing. Trust the front five.” Chris Robshaw’s pre-match team talk
Integrate New Blood
Very often when people leave and new team members join there’s a loss of momentum. It’s critical to mark the point where the new team begins and the old team is laid to rest. If the start of this new journey isn’t clearly marked then different team members will set out in different directions. The more memorable the occasion the greater the chance of success, so make an event of this ‘new beginning’ – get away from your place of work and spend time getting to know each other….
If you’ve travelled on the London Underground recently you might have seen a series of posters featuring team building exercises.
Smart phones might be clever but even they have their limitations.
Vodafone have launched an advertising campaign suggesting that with their service teams can connect without the need to spend time together.
We would challenge this assumption on the basis that whilst it is possible to convey information by phone it’s almost impossible to build trust.
Trust is the single greatest differential between good and bad teams and to build trust takes a combination of time, commitment, shared experience and common values.
Smart phones might be clever but even they have their limitations.
What are your thoughts?
Increasingly, teams don’t sit in the same office and even those that do probably rely to a large extent on electronic communication.
Being a team in name alone is not enough. Having the right people on board, in the right roles and led by a strong leader will all help but it’s the day-to-day behaviours that make a truly great team.
Tuckman’s Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing team development model is as true today as it was in 1965.
So here are 7 day-to-day issues that make a truly great team:…
A team building away day presents a unique opportunity to achieve a number of outcomes.
Getting out of the office on a team building away day can be a great way of motivating team members
On occasions the potential of time away from ringing phones, interrupted conversations and pinging emails can be lost due to rushed planning, unrealistic expectations or simply a lack of energy and fun within the agenda.
A good team building away day should achieve some (not all) of the following:…
Happiness at work – why does it matter is a half day event being hosted by Roffey Park with our own Dan Collins on Wednesday 6th July in central London.
Come and find out why happiness at work does matter
According to research recently published by Roffey Park in The Management Agenda there is:
Put simply, businesses that do well by their people, help them find fulfilment through their work and who demonstrate ethical leadership are rewarded by loyalty and higher performance and productivity.
Please join us, to book (external website run by Roffey Park Institute).
Trust underpins all good relationships – supplier and customer, team and leader, husband and wife.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said "Our distrust is very expensive".
Despite the technical advances of the last century, few leaders would argue that the way in which their teams interact with and depend on one another isn’t crucial to their organisation’s performance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Our distrust is very expensive”.
During periods of uncertainty and restructure, trust in employers, team mates and leaders can be eroded, so along the road to recovery what can individuals do to rebuild trust?…
Could relying on an email to convey the nuance of an important message be lazy and ill-considered?
Although in this instance the Army was quick to admit that this was “a bad mistake” and the result of “a serious administrative error” there are many cases where similarly important and sensitive news has been communicated via an inappropriate and impersonal method such email….
Teams contain people and people have egos. Egos erode teams. This fact threatens most teams, particularly those made up of high achievers.
Egos erode teams. This fact threatens most teams, particularly those made up of high achievers.
Unfortunately when we lack humility we fail to own up when we don’t understand what’s going on. Very often our colleagues are equally confused but they too keep quiet, so confusion reigns – silently.
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