Communication and Organization: The Key to Your Virtual Team

Working with a Virtual Team can be difficult. However, there are two elements that sometimes people tend to forget when it comes to planning their team's future.

When Teams Don't Work: 10 Major Reasons

Discover 10 major reasons why teams fail. Learn secrets for transforming your team and achieving success.

Identifying Potential Remote Teams

How do I identify and justify teams within my organisation that could operate as a remote team? The two elements of this article look at simple broad terms that can be applied to help you identify if remote team working has a place within the organisation and justify further investigation.

Leadership - Consistency

Being a leader is not a part time job.

Leadership - Developing Your Team

If you were hoping to read a column about how to keep your star performers forever, I recommend that you turn the page – this isn't it. The truth is that the majority of your best people will eventually leave. Assuming that the previous statement is a fact, how do many leaders (business owners, managers, etc.) approach this challenge?

Rewards and Recognition: Recognising a Turkey of a Reward

Being given the responsibility, the competence and tools to do a job well and the recognition of your peers, subordinates and superiors when the job is done well are the rewards by which most people are motivated. Rewards which grow the individual or the team and recognition in the form of a public “thank you” that specifically details what the employee is being thanked for is a more powerful motivator than a truck load of turkeys.

How to Choose Your Corporate Treasure Hunt

A treasure hunt is a treasure hunt, or is it? In this article find out what to look for to gain the maximum team building and communication skills development from an enjoyable event.

7 Ways To Improve The Well-Being of Your Team

With the increased awareness of health, fitness and well being, at any moment in time, at least one of your team is likely to be on some type of diet, detox, fitness regime, trying to stop smoking or simply improve their work-life balance.

Is Teambuilding A Myth Or Reality In Your Organization?

If team building is seen as a concoction of management gurus and philosophers it will have a short life due in part to their lack of first hand experience with both the process and function of how teams work. If it is perceived as an inspiration of employees they will take ownership in its necessity, process and success.

Building a Cult

Zero percent turnover - is it possible? Nobody wants to leave? Sounds like a cult.

Picking Office Furniture To Boost Your Productivity

Anyone who has spent lots of time in an office knows that the smallest things can affect your productivity. How ergonomic your keyboard is, how much desk space you have, how comfortable your chair is.

Jealousy and Territoriality in the Workplace

A brief examination of primal competetive instincts expressed in the workplace, and how they can be managed for the best benefit of the organization.

Literally 'Burying the Hatchet'

Relations between two departments had deteriorated badly over the years. One was a state government agency, the other from the private sector. The culture of these two 'partners' could not have been more different. At a team-building workshop, top managers from both sides decided to 'bury the hatchet'.