Content about Team building

March 8, 2012
Small Business Dynamics
How can women and minority business owners be most successful? Use your diversity position as reason to conduct strategic planning...dealing honestly and forcefully with the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of your business. Thus, you will initiate more partnerships and carve a market niche.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

How can women and minority business owners be most successful?

See yourself as a plus to the business world, not as a liability. We are all minorities operating in the whole, as do professional specialties within the company’s big picture. Through diversity, each element blends and supports others, as does the corporate visioning process. Major public sector contracts require qualified minority subcontractors. Select partners, and show good faith efforts to procure and execute contracts.

November 22, 2011
Rock-Steady Leadership

As a result of this recent economic uncertainty, a new emphasis in leadership development is required. A leader needs to develop the stability of a rock to serve as the team’s foundation in turbulent times, but at the same time must be able to rock and roll, or, in other words, motivate and inspire people to do and be their best.

By Connie Charles, Founder and CEO, Strategic Solutions International Inc.

November 7, 2011
Bosses Pass the Torch to Build Effective Teams

Many company owners talk about their efforts to build a strong staff in terms of teambuilding activities. But building a strong team starts with talent—identifying, attracting, and deploying the right players to achieve your company’s goals and take on your mid-level responsibilities, thereby freeing you up to focus on performance and sustainability.

By Mary Hladio, Founder and CEO, Ember Carriers Leadership Group

September 19, 2011
Leadership Challenge at Cbeyond

When Cbeyond wanted to challenge its next generation of leaders, it launched A Leader of the Future program. Piloted in 2009-2010, the program focused on existing leaders at the director and senior director levels, with leaders teaching leaders, as well as providing a Hogan Assessment and a development plan.

By Margery Weinstein

When Cbeyond wanted to challenge its next generation of leaders, it launched A Leader of the Future program. Piloted in 2009-2010, the program focused on existing leaders at the director and senior director levels, with leaders teaching leaders, as well as providing a Hogan Assessment and a development plan.

Here are the highlights of the program:

May 18, 2011
Coaching: What Are We Talking About?

Many of us are still unclear about what coaching is. The key is to clarify the notion of coaching in the organizational context and to assist the person responsible for coaching (human resources director, sales director, or manager) to identify the most appropriate form of coaching in the circumstances.

By Carole Trépanier, DBA, and Anne Mathieu, Ph.D.

We are presently in the midst of a full-scale coaching boom. According to recent research, books on the topic are being published at a rate of more than one a week and there now are more than 18,000 professional personal and business coaches registered as members of the International Coaching Federation compared to 11,000 in 2006 (http://www.coachfederation.org/about-icf/).

May 16, 2011
Teambuilding Across Cultures

Few workforces are entirely mono-cultural these days, and the challenges of welding disparate cultural elements (whether based within the same office or from offices dotted around the globe) into effective teams are challenges faced by an ever-increasing number of organizations. The key factor when it comes to teambuilding across cultures is to get every member to focus on the objectives of that team.

By Christian Arno, Founder, Lingo24

The presence of talented individuals is important for any organization that wishes to innovate and excel in its field, but good teamwork is essential, providing the bedrock on which future success can be built. The importance of having an effective teambuilding strategy in place is widely acknowledged throughout the business world, with a plethora of resources offering advice and tailored teambuilding services.

May 12, 2011
Teambuilding and Training With the Most Impact

Companies owe it to themselves to think and plan...before launching piecemeal training programs. After carefully articulating and understanding direction, then training needs (including teambuilding and empowerment) will stand a chance of being successful.

By Hank Moore, Corporate Strategist

If training is thought of as band-aid surgery to fix problems, then it will fail. Managers who have this “fix those people” mindset are, in fact, the ones who need training.           

Teambuilding must be part of the corporate vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers.

October 1, 2010
Trainer Talk: Teambuilding Dilemma

Helping a manager fix his “people problem” begins with a reality check, doing a group self-assessment, gaining buy-in, and then 
facilitating a teambuilding session.

By Bonnie Burn

September 24, 2010
Reality Review: The 3Rs Checklist

You’re a trainer new to the company. A manager drops by your office complaining about two “problem employees” and then volunteers you to do a teambuilding session to “solve the problem.” Where do you start? Applying the "Review Reality" strategy will help you produce a timely, effective teambuilding session.

By Bonnie Burn