A lot of managers hire an entertainer or organize events like paintball, traveling, hiking, sports games and other fun activities. And these team activities are definitely part of team building. But you may have observed that team members in conflict will avoid taking part; they find important reasons to be busy and conveniently don’t attend most of the time. Because they don’t feel comfortable in their workplace, they don’t want to spend additional time with coworkers—making a large part of your team-building effort obsolete.
Playing is fine and fun, but you wonder what a systematic team development process could bring to your revenue, innovation and customer service. A good team makes the difference in the world of achieving results, new business, competition, fast change...
Success in business depends on the ability to get multiple things done at the same time. That means you need to identify what has to be done and hire the right experts to accelerate the process and get results.
How do you motivate your team? Everybody who communicates with their team via email knows how much more encouraging a conversation on the phone can be. Twenty years of international project management showed us that we need social bonding and that the emotional power of people who like to communicate is a crucial success factor for great business results. In my experience working for Fortune 500 companies, teams should gather for face-to-face meetings at least once a month. These meetings are not about small talk and playing games or just sitting and writing emails while listening to boring status reports. An efficient team meeting requires intensive preparation to give all attendees enough motivation and encouragement to move forward...
In this post, I will share five magic techniques I use to develop a strong emotional state of mind following disaster. Why write this now? Just last week my friend, a high-level manager, called me and said that he needs a good lawyer to fight accusations against him. He lost his position in a large company and has since been additionally sued by others he never imagined would do so. His emotions are all over the place, swinging from frustration, anger, hate, sadness and apathy. What can he do?
We are all looking for a better quality of life, but sometimes we get stuck on our way. We are subject to external events beyond our control, which often impede us from accomplishing things we are normally capable of. Things out of our hands can often stand in the way of goals such as winning a project or election, advancing in our career, losing weight, improving relationships, overcome fear and finding happiness.
Of course my friend has to look at how to defend himself against these...
Your Business success reflects your Value system. Does your Value system match the market requirements for being successfully?
Do you know that you are in a Change process but you are aware of drifting with not clear enough direction? It is easy to say create a compelling Vision and discuss your Strategy!I conducted many Strategy sessions and Vision Mission Value workshops. Now we can take the guesswork out of Value definition, we can measure and define clear values we want to live.
How do we do that ? My friend and colleague Dr Rainer Krumm researched the Theory of Spiral dynamics and the studies of professor Graves and created a simple and easy to use system for measuring the Values of individuals, Groups and corporations. Easy , because all it takes is to take an online survey and get the visible results..
Did you know that over 92% of companies believe change management is important? However, in our careers, we can have beliefs and...
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