Tennis Balls: Divide the participants up into small groups of about eight to ten people and have them arrange themselves in a circle. Give a tennis ball to one person and explain the rules of the game:

Each group is in competition with the other groups in the room. The group [...]

Characteristics of a Good Team

High level of interdependence among members
Leader has good people skills and is committed to team approach
Each member is willing to contribute
A relaxed climate for communication
Members develop a mutual trust
The group and individuals are prepared to take risks
Group is clear about goals and establishes targets
Member [...]

By Doug Staneart
Thousands of companies wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue last year on “Team Building” programs that didn’t develop more of a team atmosphere within their organizations. The term “Team Building” has come to have so many definitions that it can mean just about anything to anybody.
The definition I like is the [...]

By Doug Staneart
Word-of-mouth advertising is one of the cheapest and most effective types of advertising your company can invest in, but how do we generate this elusive type of advertising? Most experts in the area will say, “Get out and ‘network’.” So we go to a Chamber of Commerce business card exchange, a small business [...]

By Richard Highsmith
Most Senior Managers will acknowledge the importance of having the support, loyalty and ideas of their subordinates. A company of any size cannot sustain growth on the back of one person. Without a team effort the entrepreneurial spark can be extinguished in the rainstorm of turmoil created by success.
Desirable employees want positions that [...]

By Doug Staneart
Five years ago, a couple of instructors that I was working with and I were brainstorming about different ways to promote our training programs more easily. Up to that point, I had spent my entire career in training focused primarily on helping individuals become more successful by helping them strengthen certain skill sets [...]

I took my first leadership training course back almost 20 years ago, and out of all of the education that I worked very hard for in High School and College, all of the seminars that my former employers provided me, all of the conventions, and all of the books and trade journals that I have [...]

Last Christmas, my wife and I decided to travel up north to Montreal and Vermont so that our two kids could have a true “White Christmas” experience, and we had an absolute blast. It was a fantastic experience. We live here in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, so we only get snow about every [...]

Quest Diagnostics made some children in Pittsburg very happy. The participants strengthened their team by solving clues to get bike parts, and had a blast doing it. The payoff – some children whose families have been hard hit by a flagging economy had shy smiles and great big ones. Quest left the event feeling good [...]

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