By Team Building on October 12, 2010
At the Fresh Tracks office we recently got together as a team look at the issue of trust. It made me realise how much we take trust for granted when it’s there, and how much extra work a lack of trust can create. Although our session included event managers, admin staff and senior managers, it […]
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By Team Building on October 6, 2010
The recession may not be feel like it’s over yet but most managers appreciate that Christmas needn’t be cancelled again this year. Boozy parties are probably not the best way to mark the end of a tough year but that doesn’t mean there’s not value in gathering everyone together. As we enter an era when […]
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By Team Building on September 28, 2010
Travel budgets slashed, bonuses unlikely and the prospect of redundancies. Now is probably not the time to ask for cash to fund the annual team building day but it might be the precisely the right time for some team development. The phrase team building has risen in prominence in recent years as employers realised the […]
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By Team Building on September 22, 2010
In our 19 years of helping teams develop ‘communication’ has always been listed as one of the areas team members would most like to improve. In the case of the crew on US Airways Flight 1549 which successfully ditched into the Hudson River in 2009, it was the difference between life and death. Despite all […]
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By Team Building on August 23, 2010
When Southwest Airlines said that it’s important to them that staff have fun at work did anybody believe them or did it just sound like more corporate mission statement jargon?
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By Team Building on August 2, 2010
An article in The Wall Street Journal* suggested that while team building exercises may be fun (for some people), they really don’t do much to solve workplace issues. For example, sales executive Paul Garvey claimed that the most insightful team-building exercise he ever participated in involved paintball, which in no way helped to resolve the […]
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By Team Building on July 15, 2010
Take a peek around your office, who’s got bags under their eyes? A recent poll revealed that lack of sleep is the biggest health concern for 42% of the population, with another 34% experiencing low-level general fatigue. Our relationship to tiredness is paradoxical, a source of shame, indicating our inability to cope; but also a […]
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By Team Building on June 28, 2010
So far this year I’ve spent more hours than I care to remember trying to calm the nerves of fraught conference organisers. Often days before the event has even started. The other day I spent the afternoon on the set of a live TV show. With just two hours to air the production team managed […]
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By Team Building on June 1, 2010
For any company to be successful in the current economical climate it is going to be vital for organisations to optimise their resources. And surely any organisation’s most valuable resource is its staff. For example, one option is to use this period to promote young talent rather than take on the cost and risk of […]
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By Team Building on May 7, 2010
From guest writer David Kershaw, from eVisioner MetaTeam® A friend of mine who has been in business for many years advises new managers who are trying to run an organization for the first time. Several times he has told me stories of young execs who get down in the weeds helping to get the actual work done […]
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Carter McNamara of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, provides organizational development, consultant training and Action Learning services, and is developer of the Free Management Library. [Read more ...]