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Want to add some energy to your next meeting or company function? Sometimes, a good icebreaker activity or fun team building game can be just the trick. Below are a few of our favorite games and activities, and you can use them as an opening to your meeting a way to jazz up the group [...]

Everyone has their disagreements now and again, and when these disagreements arise in the workplace, they can create an atmosphere that is unpleasant to be in, and in some cases, an environment that is hostile. While you may have your own methods for dealing with conflicts outside of the workplace, resolving conflicts at your place [...]

‘Trust’ is one of those buzz words that can mean many things, depending on the context. The definition of trust used by Patrick Lencioni in his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is the notion that you have confidence that your co-workers have your best interests at heart. No one is out to get [...]

Most people think of team building activities for groups of people that do the same job and work together. Often they don’t work together in the same physical space, but they are usually part of the same division or have the same basic job description. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Team building [...]

How often are you distracted at work? ‘The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.’ – ZW. Edwards Deming That probably sounds pretty familiar to most of you and some may be thinking “Fifty?  That’s all?  It seems like more than that!”  Interruptions at [...]

Boundaries are a essential part of creating healthy relationships and a healthy balanced life.  These are not the line-in-the sand kind of boundaries, you can’t see them, most of the time they are spoken and unspoken thoughts that can be felt. They are invisible lines that define limits and responsibilities in ones’ life. Setting and [...]

Virtual teams need team building to unite and build a team culture just as much as – if not more than – teams who work in the same office. PJ’s, fuzzy slippers, a phone, and computer are cozy and offer a flexible schedule. That is all good, but does your virtual team feel “part of the [...]

Have you ever met a successful person, or admired someone from afar, whom inspired you to get where you are today? Successful people seem to possess the sort of luck that other people do not have the good fortune to have.  That is how it can look if you watch tv or read any magazines [...]

Team building is simply actively listening, respecting employees, and implementing small changes. Often the first instinct when facing a disgruntled or disengaged employee is to show him or her the door. But look around. Is there more than one person who feels disengaged? Hiring and training new employees eats away at your bottom line, and [...]

Our working lives are filled with people telling us stuff. Everyone has a message about how to work smarter, manage time better, solve problems more creatively, do less with more, etc. From our boss to upper management to well-intentioned training staff, it seems that someone is always telling us something we should do differently in [...]