Get New Staff to 'Self-Select'

If you want a strong and distinctive company culture, you need to get the right people on the job. If you want innovation, hire creative people. If you want aggressive sales results, hire those with an energized 'can-do' attitude. If you want to give great customer service, only hire people who will go the extra mile. But how can you find such people in a market filled with so many resumes, retrenchments and retirees? How can you avoid wasting time and money hiring new staff, only discovering later they weren’t the right people for the job?

Ten Great Reasons to Use a Training Game at Your Next Conference

A well-designed, well-delivered training game can get your audience involved with your topic – and with each other. Here are ten great reasons to use a training game at your next conference or special event.

Building an Extraordinary Team

If you’ve ever been part of a team that got less than stellar results, then your team was likely missing one or more of the characteristics of high functioning teams. This article reviews the five dysfunctions of a team and what extraordinary teams have that ordinary ones don’t.

Diversity and Team Building are Key to Success in Today’s Economy

Today's economic challenges are causing firms to operate more cost effectively. As a result, we are seeing business solutions such as international outsourcing, company mergers, and facility closings. The U.S. workforce is now more racially and religiously diverse, including a higher percentage of women and older workers. Although diversity offers unlimited opportunities to enhance an organization’s performance, it also brings new challenges that must be handled properly.

A Team Building Seminar Can Work For Any Business

It amazes me how popular team building seminars have become. Most major companies and organizations have turned to team building professionals at one time or another to get greater results from their employees.

Corporate Team Building Coaching

Corporate team building coaching is becoming more and more popular among all kinds of companies. These coaching practices are meant to improve the cooperative working ability of employees, while working for their personal goals. Most corporations allot one or two days in a year for this purpose. These coaching practices create shared experiences among the team members, which in turn can directly lead to improvements in the office. Team members are more likely to trust each other and are better ready to function together. An effective corporate team building coaching can curb the laziness of workers and remove impediments in the corporation?s growth.

Studies on Corporate Team Building

Corporate team building is a useful tool to improve a company?s productivity and profit on a long term basis. Team building aims at the improvement of communication, participation and functioning of company members in company activities.

Team Building - Your Beliefs Can Create Success or Failure!

Your team building skills can have a powerful impact on your staff. Do you believe they can deliver great results? Or are you sabotaging their efforts through your own doubts about their capabilities? Belief is a powerful aspect of human psychology. Learn how to recognize your beliefs about your team members and help them to achieve better results.

What Role-Playing Excercises can Do for Your Leadership Skills and Team Building

Some aren't so lucky to be born with the natural skills that we recognise in our leaders. For those people it is important to prepare a good leadership activity so that they can acquire and practise the skills required to lead a group of people. This can be in a professional setting, or a social context.

Team Building Lessons from the Modern Cave Man - Part 2

In the beginning… The caveman needed to survive. Man found safety in groups. It was not a matter of preference, it was a matter of necessity. If you were not a part of a group, your chances for survival were slim. Conformity to the majority became necessary to stay in a group and physical strength was the dominant factor for group leadership. Those who were strong and successful in the art of ...

Finding the Right Team: A Filmmakers's Dilemma

How a personality clash can totally destroy the outcome of a project or undertaking. It is team work that can make it a success

Working For A Salary - Why Not?

You probably know them too, those sites, people or opinions against the concept of a (monthly) salary. Some argue that there are much better ways to earn a living and that people should get paid for their real contributions; either per brilliant idea, the amount of sales they bring in, or any other contribution to the organization. But besides the fact that most people are satisfied with this fixed monthly income (although perhaps not with the amount) the function of a salary is more important than you might imagine.

Five Tips For Working In A Group

We have all had experiences with group assignments and pack mentalities. These five tips will be helpful to you not only during college but as you move into life.