All Entries Tagged With: "Team Work"

I came across a very simple but interesting game that soft skills trainers use to demonstrate effect of hidden agendas in a team. Assume that there are three teams named red, blue, and green. Each team has three boxes or cubes – the same colour as of their team names. The teams are supposed to [...]

Engaging for Success is a wonderfully promising report. It was commissioned by the then UK Secretary of State for Business in the autumn of 2008 to take an in-depth look at employee engagement. The report, in its introduction, sets itself out to report on the potential benefits of engagement for companies, organisations and individual employees, [...]

In career services we preach that you need to find yourself a mentor.  A mentor is someone who guides you, gives you their insight and their professional advice.  I have been very lucky to have had some GREAT mentors during the course of my career in education.  Betty Wilting, my former Dean at the technical [...]

I organized a painting competition at one of my workplaces. The paintings of the participants had to reflect or bring about the vision and mission of the company. One of the painters brought out an artwork that was a stunning example for the power of NOW. The painting was of trapeze artistes. Both the artistes [...]

A team does as well as you and the team think they can. This idea is known as “the self-fulfilling prophecy”. When you believe the team will perform well, in some strange, magical way they do. And similarly, when you believe they won’t perform well, they don’t. There is enough experimental data to suggest that [...]

In this wonderful journey of Life, there are lessons to learn from anyone whom we all come across…lessons from sportsmen, businessmen, CEO’s and cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are said to be a small crowd across the globe, and it makes them very special and unique for what they do – fly across continents to be at sports [...]

Teamwork is not rocket science, and mostly a matter of common sense. Here are 50 simple but powerful ways you could make teamwork work. 1.    Act with integrity; this is one quality that will make a great team. 2.    Credibility as a team-leader is mostly as good as only it is perceived. So display credibility [...]

If you are part of a couple in business, do you run it as a business, or is it an extension of your relationship? By that I mean, do you put up with a bad job because your partner did it and you don’t want to hurt their feelings? Does yesterday’s argument come into the [...]

There is a paradox at the heart of facilitation as there is at the heart of all people management; and that is, that to get people to do great things, we, the group leaders, need to allow things to happen, not by doing a lot but by doing as little as possible. When we get [...]

When was the last time someone patted your back? When was the last time you gave someone a pat on the back? If you’re reading this article give yourself a PAT on the back. Come to think of it we are overjoyed when someone gives us a PAT on the back, and yet when our [...]

What and who is a leader? The Webster’s Dictionary defines leader as a person who by force of example, talents or qualities of leadership plays a directing role, wields commanding influence, or has a following in any sphere of activity or thought. It defines leadership as that ingredient of personality that causes men (and/or women) [...]

Business today is global and many executives must meet the challenge of delivering results through global teams spread over different geographies and time zones. Team members often speak different languages, have different mindsets, lifestyles, professional and personal values and expectations. And let’s not forget the tug-of-war between global and local objectives. Leading such teams is [...]

Emerson states, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”. A majority of the issues related to worker productivity stem from enthusiasm or the lack thereof. Individuals simply go to work despite their abhorrence of their employer, the monotony, and the products. There is no passion or pride. Much of this issue stems from practices embedded [...]