A great corporate team building program always has three essential parts that are vital to the success of the team building event. First, you want to add interactive activities that build camaraderie. You also want to teach valuable lessons about company interdependency. Finally, if you want a great corporate team building program, add a “Wow!” moment along the way.

Have you ever had one of those meetings where you’ve worked really hard, and then, toward the end of the day, you were looking for a way to really cut loose with the team and have some fun?  A great way to accomplish this is with a team scavenger hunt. I am proud to say [...]

For the last 20 or 30 years, politicians have used the educational system of our kids as a way gain votes and favor among constituents without really fixing the problems created by previous politicians.  Well, a number of fantastic non-profit educational institutions decided that the old way of doing things just wasn’t getting us the [...]

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How to recover after giving a terrible public speaking performance and bombing on stage – how I did it after a disastrous speech in college, and how you can too. Ever have one of those situations where you are asked to do some public speaking, and things just don’t go well? Whether it is from public speaking fear or presentation anxiety, or if the poor performance just came from preparing for your speech in an inproper way, it happens. Even public speaking pros can bomb a speech. These are a few things that you can do to recover.

Persuasive Public Speaking.  One of the most effective ways to persuade your audience is to relay a personal story or an example that shows the benefits of your recommendation to your audience.  Religious leaders have used this technique for over 2000 years with great success.  This video explains how the persuasive public speaking technique works.  Fearless Presentations is a [...]

Team activities centered around personality styles can be a great way to reduce conflict and build morale. If your team is struggling with communication or trust issues, very often it boils down to personalities – a misunderstanding of personalities. You can identify team characteristics and open lines of communication by understanding the personality temperaments of coworkers.

I just finished a charity team building event in Alabama, for Lafarge North America.  For those of you who don’t know, Lafarge is the company that built the five soccer stadiums in South Africa for the World Cup that ended last week.   Lafarge donated 10 new hand-made  stuffed animals to the local Hoover fire department to be used for comforting children in need [...]

We just finished a fun team building scavenger hunt in downtown Minneapolis a few days ago, and it was an absolute BLAST! The Camaraderie Quest is a high-tech scavenger hunt team building event that is custom designed for every client, and Minneapolis was a fantastic course to set up. This Camaraderie Quest was designed for [...]

Just wanted to let you know about one of my absolute favorite websites called www.selfgrowth.com. It has one of the most comprehensive libraries of motivational and self-help articles, videos, websites, and more, and it is a great place to spend a few minutes early in the morning before the work day. If you are a [...]