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.
Ikigai, pronounced ee-key-guy, an unfamiliar word to me, is very familiar to the Japanese, although there’s no direct translation in English. The definition isn’t complex though. Ken Mogi, a neuroscientist and author of Awakening Your Ikigai defines it as “your reason to get up in the morning”.
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As the work place becomes more collaborative, the cost of losing a good employee can be multiplied as teammates move with them.
It is more important than ever before to retain key staff. Some companies use sophisticated covert surveillance to assess whether their staff are spending more time than they should on LinkedIn or job sites.
Alternatively, here are some less big brotherish approaches every manager should be aware of:
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The chocolate gift giving season is upon us with St Valentine’s Day and Easter approaching. We’d like to give you a year’s supply of Britain’s best chocolate!
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In this excellent film from Scientific America our body’s chemical response to stress is clearly explained. Take two minutes to take a look and be better equipped to deal with the next crisis, deadline or difficult customer you face.
In this blog we’d like to introduce you to our good friend, Gold Medallist and Paralympic TV presenter Giles Long.
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Great chefs know that alongside the core ingredients it’s the careful use of seasoning that turns a mediocre meal into a something scrumptious.
What additional ingredients would make your team even more successful?
Here we offer some tips to help team leaders make their team rise:…
Will your team be the same next year?
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:…
The idea that staff set their own pay, come and go from the office as they please, all within a business that has no written strategy sounds like a recipe for disaster. Not the story of a company that’s gone from $4m to $160m.
Is this man a management genius?
Semco is no ordinary workplace, despite the fact that it operates in an industry as ordinary as engineering….
Why is it that when some companies and sports teams have a great leader and a brilliant team they still seem to under achieve?
Misaligned leaders and teams can have a very negative effect on success, as shown by the England cricket team.
I was recently talking to an executive from a business that has exceptional recruitment. They are renowned for attracting and recruiting some of the brightest minds in their field. Their leaders are highly skilled and many have graduated from the best business schools.
During our conversation it became apparent that matching great leaders to already successful teams doesn’t always lead to instant success, in fact all too often team performance dropped as a new, highly competent leader was appointed. The issue here is one of alignment. Leaders come in different flavours – visionary, strategic, entrepreneurial, consensual, pastoral, motivational, as well as those brought in to turn around a crisis, the re-engineering leader….
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