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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why it pays to out more humor in the workplace
- 1. Humor reduces stress levels and stress is the number one problem confronting employees today.2. Laughter boosts morale while stress erodes staff morale. It is in the best interest of any business to invest in the happiness of its employees. Laughter is an effective barometer of just how happy your people are.3. Keeping things in perspective tends to boost morale and humor helps us...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top ten creative excursions for building effective teams
- The ability to build effective teams is a must for any organization who wants to succeed in the millennium. This article offers ten examples of highly creative excursions which can provide insight into developing the leadership qualities essential for success in challenging times.1. A Day Trip to the Sharper ImageThe Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and intern...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Finding the leader within (keys to zen leadership)
- Most believe that leadership is an innate quality that some have, not others. They believe that leaders are born not made. Nothing can be further from the truth. Each one of us has the potential to stand tall, be a light to others, clearly define a vision and mission and take charge. Within every individual an "Inner Leader" is waiting to be born.Most shy away due to various fears...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leading to a preferred future
- Last month's edition of Footprints and Monuments illustrated a parallel between leadership in the face of disaster and the voyage of the Apollo 13. As you will remember, an explosion on board forced the crew to circle the moon without ever landing on their prized target. Obviously, they didn't have the preferred ending to their trip in space. But they did get home alive, and were very happy about ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How the p.r.i.d.e. team changed my call center
- Several years ago I took an assignment as a Manager in an outsourcing Call Center. Shortly after I started it became clear that several areas within the department needed improvement; absenteeism was high (19%), call takers lacked the enthusiasm about the programs to deliver quality customer service and seemed unconnected to the goals and metrics. With the overall morale of the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Working as a winning team
- It's a great sunny day so it's time to get out and enjoy the weather. Many of us would like to, but we have projects due, tasks that need to be done, people that we need to see, and money that needs to be made. What if your company gave you that time off as compensation for the great effort that you gave to the team to finish a project on time?See, when it comes to teamwork the main focus i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Outdoor team development ? harmless fun or serious learning?
- The Sales Director had organised a great conference; the venue was first class, the service excellent and the content of the workshops and presentations very motivational. The only potential "fly in the ointment" was the team-building afternoon which was scheduled to take place outdoors as evidenced by the memo outlining the fact that waterproof jackets, trousers and boots should be brou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The team process
- We live in very progressive times, one only has to look around at the changes on the internet each day to see that this is true.We see changes also happening within the world around us as well, sometimes for the better sometimes not. We sometimes can feel frustrated in that it appears that we can do nothing to make the changes that we would like to see.It is only through banding toge...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The stages of team development
- One of the greatest challenges a coaching manager has is in moving his or her team though the various team development stages. If a manager has no, or little experience of teams and team dynamics then taking over a team and then leading that team can be a very stressful experience. Every manager should know what the various growth stages are of a developing team and they should know how best to mo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 4 tips for keeping a team motivated
- Companies often have incentives for reps, but sometimes that isn't enough. To keep your team motivated, you could do a number of things:1. Hold your own personal incentive for your teamThis could be something as simple as a gift certificate for the one who sells the most in a month.2. Set up a message board just for your personal teamA great way to keep in contact with ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Book summary: the 17 essential qualities of a team player
- A follow-up companion reader to The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, here is a clear character profile of the ideal Team Player. Maxwell stresses some main qualities of a good team player: intentional, or she is focused on the big picture, relational, focused on others, selfless, willing to take a backseat for the good of the team, and tenacious - works hard to overcome obstacles, no matter what....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you want to get others to improve their performance? then expect the best
- Recently I decided to stretch my athletic abilities and add a running program to my regular exercise routine. Although I had tried to run in the past, my level of success was pretty pathetic. This time, however, I decided to follow my own advice and find some expert runners who could teach me how to run. And that is exactly what I did.Our local roadrunner's organization was about to begin a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 4 tips for keeping a team motivated
- Companies often have incentives for reps, but sometimes that isn't enough. To keep your team motivated, you could do a number of things:1. Hold your own personal incentive for your teamThis could be something as simple as a a gift certificate for the one who sells the most in a month.2. Set up a message board just for your personal teamA great way to keep in contact wit...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Feedback for learning can turn your team into winners
- Feedback:Most experts agree both types; constructive and positive feedback are beneficial and important to performance improvement. However, the way the feedback and timing of it are crucially factors.Method:Feedback will be effective only if it is specific. General statements like " You really did a good job." Or " You didn't do that so well." Will do litt...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Grow your staff into a team of creative problem solvers
- As a manager, your employees will come to you with situations they don't know how to handle. When they approach you during these times, they are looking to you to give them the solution to the problem. This is understandable with big problems that have significant monetary and time consequences, or that may have a detrimental impact on your company's standing in the eyes of your professional commu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mastermind team: do you have one?
- The key to life is to be around the people who will empower you to reach the next level in life! In order to exceed your present reach, you need to be around people who will help you stretch a little farther. The secret to a productive mastermind team is for you to surround yourself with people who you can always learn from. A sign of a very intelligent person is to be smart enough to realize that...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Employee and coworkers gifts
- Giving gifts to your co-workers or your employees can be a tricky business. You want to give something that is they will really enjoy but doesn't break your piggy bank. You want to give something that suits the individual's tastes but doesn't suggest anything politically. We have some suggestions that for the most part can be given to either sex and to anyone of almost any age which we think will ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Proactive high performance teamwork
- Proactive High Performance Teamwork is made up of nine proactive components and will provide the growth you are seeking in your practice. Two of the nine components are Performance and Opportunities.Performance=ProfitabilityHigh Performing Staff=High Performing Bottom Line!Successful practices excel in the filed of Patient Services**It's not about product...It's about S...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Collaboration software - building an office without walls
- The rise of the internet has given businesses a new way to think and function on both the individual level and as a whole. Today if you are in a business that doesn't have or use the internet, then you are giving up valuable advertising and productivity. Whether or not your company uses the internet we are all aware, to some degree, the effect the internet has on advertising and promoting business...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Beyond brainstorming ? large groups
- When leaders, consultants and managers require ideas, they automatically tend to herd people into a room and conduct a (usually ineffective) brainstorming session. One reason for their ineffectiveness is a failure to consider the impact of group size.There is a pervasive belief that creativity is enhanced in larger groups. However, significant data indicates that large groups are detrimenta...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What college taught me about teamwork training
- I declared a Communications Major two years into school, after discovering that it was a subject in which I had sincere interest. Now that I have graduated from college, I look back at the myriad of group projects and interactions that I had with the fellow students. I can remember many stressful periods of working together, but also many rewarding times of working together and accomplishing our t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Designing and deploying human centric processes
- A lot of effort has been carried out in the last years to re engineer processes in order to automate all or parts of them. A great number of companies have changed their processes as a result of the introduction of new software systems, aimed to streamline the management of the back and front office. Companies have even taken care of processes crossing the company boundaries in order to optimize c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Business team building strategy in the jungle
- "Tak kenak! Tak kenak!" "Adak Orang sanak!????"The quiet jungle has suddenly become noisy with intruders. Strange voices and shouting seemed to appear all around us. They were definitely foreign. We were being attacked!We had been expecting an attack, but we did not expect it so soon. We did everything possible to protect ourselves, but the only cover we had were some bushes, tree tr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating a winning staff team
- As a business owner, I've had staff come and go over the years: some have done extremely well, and others not so well. During the time I was involved in running my business, I found some weaknesses in myself that tremendously affected things that were going on, especially from a negative point of view. It was not uncommon for me, whenever something was not going well, to ignore it. Sometimes I wou...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective brainstorming
- Most managers simply herd some people in a room with a flip chart and call it a brainstorming session. Yet there is a definite process that maximizes the size and quality of the idea pool. While there are hundreds of valid techniques for doing this, below are just some of the important concepts leaders should consider.a) The sum of ideas produced by individuals acting alone is greater than ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Effective team building for organizational success
- "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." -Andrew CarnegieTeam building and team work is the key driver in organizational productivity. The days of the lone warrior corporate hero who could carry an organization to f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Empower your trainees
- One of the most memorable quotes that I heard from a trainer came from a man I knew named Rizal:"As trainees, you are supposed to interrupt me if you don't understand something. You are supposed to ask questions. But you are not to go ahead of where we are in the class. All of the sections will be covered in due time."As a trainee, I could not have agreed more with Rizal. H...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A team that gleamed
- Too many techies get a bad rap for lacking teamwork and communications skills. The stereotype is that while techies are great at what they are trained to do, they cannot parlay their knowledge onto others. Because of the stereotype that techies cannot communicate, they also can be stigmatized that they lack adequate teamwork skills. So, what are the chances of two Helpdesk teams communicating with...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Yes, but what are you really saying?
- More and more I hear people misunderstanding what someone else has said to them, especially when it came through a memo or email. This can lead to a great deal of turmoil at work and affect morale.You see, when we are standing in front of a person, we pay more attention to body language and tone then we do to the words they are saying. However, when we are reading a note or short message, e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Building high performing teams: putting the i back in teamwork
- Ever watched a really brilliant idea meet with resistance and die? Or been involved in the battle of wills created when two people (or two departments) meet head on with their independent agendas? Equally painful perhaps, have you ever sat through one tireless and non-productive meeting after the next? Believe it or not these issues are simply different sides of the same coin. Getting the right pe...