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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◀ 1 … 33 34 35 36 ▶Summer holidays are a time when the pace of life slows enough for us take stock, reflect on the future and maybe catch-up with some reading.
Relax, Reflect & Resolve this summer
As you sit on a plane, a beach or in an armchair this summer, you might like to ponder one or two of the following: …
Are you a “good” boss? One of the most important aspects of an executive’s/manager’s/boss’s job is to manage employees; it is also the most challenging.
Bonus Rule 6: Don't dance in front of staff, especially if you can't dance.
A boss can either create a team unit or keep herself apart. All of us are given choices every moment of every day. How we respond to difficult situations is a choice. How we choose to react in a moment affects not only us but our employees. Employees perform best in an environment that is supportive, consistent, has good two way communication, and where everyone helps each other.
Follow these five tips to become a “good” boss:…
It’s always going to be the case that you find some people easier to work with than others.
Rule 4: Avoid micromanagement
Sometimes you can pinpoint the problem immediately (if, for example, your employee is lazy or unresponsive, comes in late and leaves early, shirks responsibility, or constantly questions your authority without cause).
But there are times when your personality just isn’t compatible with those on your team. Unfortunately, you still have work with these people and find a way to motivate them so that the whole team can realize success.
To that end, here are a few simple ways to keep the peace and get everyone working towards the same goal:…
Being asked to work late and working to ever tighter deadlines is tough, but not as tough as the tasks the Tour de France support teams are being put through this week.
Boss's come in all shapes and sizes.
It’s 40 degrees C in the mountains, with a dry headwind evaporating the riders’ sweat before it can cool their surging blood. Consequently the riders are dehydrating faster than expected. The support teams must get more water to them more quickly and in the midst of the race….
Ever wondered what motivates people.
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
In just a few days thirty and forty somethings all across the land will be covertly buying popcorn and taking their seats in darkened auditoriums to relive their youth with Hannibal, Faceman, Murdock and B.A. Baracus.
Yes that is Liam Neeson as Hannibal!
During my first week as an intern at Fresh Tracks, I followed Dan Collins to London to observe the launch of the brand new training film, Innocent Success. Being no ordinary company, it is perhaps unsurprising that Fresh Tracks chose to launch this exciting new venture in an extraordinary way.
If only BA Baracus had heard of webinars
After experiencing my first ‘webinar’ (which, after a small amount of research I discovered was not in fact a German composer, but actually an interactive live seminar on the web), I’ve been contemplating the enormous effect of the communications ‘revolution’ that has followed the development of the internet. …
The Frankie Goes To Hollywood anthem was a rousing classic in the midst of the cold war. A time when US and Soviet leaders would stand side by side seemed impossible but it happened. And last week’s coming together of Liberal and Conservative politicians seems like an equally unlikely breakthrough.
It's important for partnerships and teams to be able to embrace conflict in order to resolve differences and move on
Unlike Glasnost, Clegg and Cameron don’t just have to shake hands and smile to the cameras, they must govern, together, as one unit. Can they be a team?…
Group. Project. These are possibly two of the most dreaded words to an Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student, inducing fears of getting stuck with the slacker partner or pulling an all-nighter to throw together a half-effort project.
At least, this is how those two words make me feel. So when I heard that I would be working on not one but three group projects in my classes this semester, I was dismayed, to say the least.
The biggest of these projects is a semester long research project in a lab class, for which I have so far invested upwards of 20 hours a week, one all-nighter and countless late nights with my two partners. The class has a required team building component, one that we were all contemptuous of at first. Team building? Setting ground rules? Why should we waste our time learning things like that when there was real work to be done?…
Based on five dysfunctions of a team Patrick Lencioni pinpoints the issue of building a great team and group behavior.
Team building is not complicated, declares Lencioni, president of his own management consulting firm and author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
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