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 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 ▶A regular client approached us in September asking for a new team building challenge.
The participants would be the top 50 managers of a leading food producer. The CEO wanted a novel, intense two hour event that couldn’t be spoilt by the weather, involved everyone, would work across functional boundaries and most importantly encourage cooperation.
Within 48 hours we had submitted three ideas for brand new, never-been-run-before activities. …
This free team building activity is a light-hearted icebreaker which highlights the importance of communication.
Make sure you find time to find your team's common ground
Overview
A great icebreaker activity, this activity is best used at the beginning of the day to get participants communicating and finding out a bit more about each other. You simply ask each team/table to come up with a list as long as possible of things that all team members have in common….
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?
As we celebrate St Valentine’s Day it brings to mind Dr Gary Chapman’s theory that there are five Love Languages.
What is your team's language of love?
These are the different ways in which we show and receive appreciation, not just from our nearest and dearest but also from colleagues in our teams and our managers. Dr Chapman suggests that each of us favours one particular Love Language over the other four and whilst his work is focussed towards married couples, his theory can be applied in part to those leading teams….
Whether you managed to get tickets or not, and whether you live close to an Olympic venue or not, the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London are going to generate huge amounts of media coverage, visitors and international sporting attention making it nigh on impossible to miss.
As preparations for the Olympics intensify consider this Olympic team building activity as a way to raise your team’s game
As winners step up to the podium we’ll be hearing about the importance of working together as a team and finding the strength and determination to succeed, sometimes against the odds. …
Fifteen years ago we created an indoor team building exercise in based on chocolate. Our research at the time found that good quality chocolate contained vitamins, antioxidants and the only edible fat that doesn’t fur the arteries.
Chocolate – good for he heart, mind and business
This week the BMJ (British Medical Journal) published a comprehensive study (external link to BMJ) suggesting that eating chocolate (in moderation) can reduce the likelihood of heart disease by up to 37%.
So not only does chocolate make you feel good, it can help your heart and if eaten with your colleagues can build your team.
Find out more about our chocolate team building event.
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:…
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day to most of us. Give the sandwich man or lady a day off and make pancakes for lunch instead.
Run a quick team building exercise - make some pancakes for the team
You just need a camping stove, a pan, a bit of oil and some pancake mix. For about a dozen pancakes you’ll need:…
This team building task gets teams thinking creatively, communicating and planning.
Planning is important to the success of this team building task
Overview
Small teams are asked to build the tallest, most cost-effective, free-standing tower using a packet of dried spaghetti and a packet of jelly babies within the set time limit. …
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:…
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