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It’s already March… are you on track for making this year your best year yet?
If not, it’s not too late! But, do you know what your best year yet would look like?
Imagine it – what does your business look like on December 31, 2011, in your best year yet? Who are your clients, customers, or ... Views: 1161
Managing Director & Lead Facilitator – Phil England – of Eventus explains
how he would go about sorting the diamonds from the garbage!
1) Be wary of flashy websites
Producing an all-singing-all-dancing website is really not that difficult. Try and
look “under the skin” of the site for ... Views: 1196
A powerful tool for finding a contractor is an online outsource platform called www.Elance.com. Elance is essentially a virtual marketplace that allows you to post projects and tasks for completion by contractors in a wide variety of skill areas.
I have had great success outsourcing to ... Views: 1572
This may be the most discussed aspect of business. Why? Because it is extremely important to any company no matter what the industry. Then it would make sense that most of the training given to employees would be about customer service. Yet this is not what I have seen through the years in ... Views: 1316
Every business, every company, and sport team wants to have the team that excels in is consistent. In business the employees are the ones and especially the frontline employees, where they are in contact with the customers daily. It is here that the customers will see attitudes, moods, plus ... Views: 1704
Working as I have for a lot of years in the business, I have an inside view of just about all the distinct forms of team building session that people today can select. From treasure hunts to the elegance and splendour of an evening Edwardian murder mystery, it is not unfair to claim that I have ... Views: 822
Did you start your business with the high hopes that you’d spend every waking moment pouring through piles of receipts trying to update your bookkeeping reports, chasing down past due payments from customers or struggling to keep up with the growing list of marketing tasks to hopefully attract ... Views: 2578
Motivation of employees has been talked about for many years in the business world along with how to have the most productive teams. There are team building exercises, ways to watch and keep track of employees with paperwork and efficiency standards, performance reviews, along with standards and ... Views: 3100
You know what it’s like. You walk through the office and you can see your team rushing to look busy even though they seem to be cruising. The sales figures are bearable but could be better and no-one seems to care. You get a little angry and think, “If they don’t fire up, I’m gunna fire ... Views: 1154
If you are looking for a fantastic team building idea or a secret to conducting a great team building event, the best piece of wisdom I have ever come across is the importance of energy and enthusiasm. Often times, event planners or people who are organizing a convention or annual event will ... Views: 10505
GETTING STARTED FOR CAPATICY BUILDING TRAINING PROGRAMME
TIPS TO THE TRAINER
The role of the trainer in CAPACITY BUILDING is to create an awareness and make each trainee to understand their inherent skill. The effective role play by using their body language opens their mind and once their ... Views: 944
Team Building in the Workplace
Team building in the workplace is not something that every company considers a high priority. Though high productivity and customer/client satisfaction are always on the minds of executives and managers, the approaches traditionally taken to achieve these ends ... Views: 982
Team Building is a term which can provoke a negative reaction. Some people think of it as an embarrassing series of humiliations, designed only for the sporty people and serving only as a nice day out for those that enjoy that sort of thing. Setting up the right sort of day is the biggest ... Views: 888
Forward-thinking, proactive leaders and organizations use team building as a vital tool to improve the functioning of their workplaces. When we practice effective team building we improve the morale and productivity in our workplaces. Here are ten key benefits team building produces for your ... Views: 4416
The defenders of our freedoms now have a seasoned thirty nine year old charity as their national champion providing support for all who wear or wore a military uniform.
American Hero Card president David Pollock announced the selection of the Golden Rule Society charity as their number one ... Views: 1284
Team building is an abstract concept for many people. I talk with a lot of leaders who have a general idea about what team building is and that it might help their workplace in some way but, when it comes to actually designing and implementing an ongoing program, they have trouble envisioning ... Views: 1795
Head-on Collision
If you were able to see what’s going on in our industry, from a higher altitude it would become obvious that the wealthy and their advisors appear to be on course for a head-on collision. Both are going at each other at 90 mph and neither seem to be easing up on the pedal or ... Views: 823
I caught up with my friend the other day, the one who told me of the new team leader who had got off to a shaky start with her team (See my previous blogs post: A New Manager). Well, it transpires that this new team leader is also not that understanding when it comes to Performance Management ... Views: 1279
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A New Manager………. - by Martin Smith Learning and Development Consultant
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine yesterday who was telling me about a new Manager within their organisation. Following a re-structure this person has been appointed to the newly created role of Area Manager and is responsible for 2 or 3 teams spread across a geographical ... Views: 1332
Commonly new about sports descries the exclusive journalistic abilities of the finest reporters and anchors who actually can find the farthest treatment of the game in all the foremost fair hubs round the world. These sports hubs help all the up to date sports like football, athletics and ... Views: 5833
Getting a record label is probably every artist’s dream. They know that getting a label is one of the milestones that will forever define their success. In the process of pursuing this dream, they often forget that the reason holding a record label is such a badge of honor is that it is so ... Views: 764
It was a warm, humid and very still Saturday morning in early January, typical of the weather you expect in Sydney in the middle of a hot Australian summer. I was out of bed early as the first task of the day was to take my car to my local tyre service centre for a routine wheel alignment, ... Views: 993
Have you ever stopped to consider the economic value of trust when it comes to building your team or organization? If not, you probably have blind spots within your organization and pockets of hidden potential that are costing you a lot of time and money. How much time and money? Well, that’ the ... Views: 1108
I love this time of year. I find that more team work is exhibited during the holiday season than any other time of the year. Everything from a family working together to put together a family holiday meal, to a corporate work team having a holiday party, or groups of people helping out with ... Views: 1396
Of all the many team building skills to refine, building a culture of motivation must be high on the list.
What team characteristics sustain high levels of motivation?
The first question to be answered in a discussion of motivation is “What makes us do anything?” Why am I writing this ... Views: 1358
Well designed and facilitated team building exercises can be very effective in building productive and cohesive teams, especially if the team members do not know each other very well or have some reservations about the value of working as a team instead of alone.
Working alone can be ... Views: 752
There are symptoms that teams are beginning to not function well even if they have in the past. These manifest in different ways. The most obvious are that more ansences begin to happen along with people being late. But more will occur that has to do with attitude. Employees will seem to lose ... Views: 1423
A well-functioning team is like a symphony, each part working in harmony with the rest. Unfortunately, some teams don't work that way at all!
So, what can you do if you find yourself in the midst of a team that makes more noise than music?
The first step is always to consider how you can ... Views: 1069
There are 2 basic strategic avenues for you to increase online sales- it is either you drive more traffic to your business website or have the users browsing on your site purchase more. Here are easy tips on how you can drive site traffic and enhance your internet marketing efforts:
• Make your ... Views: 898
Why does performance evaluation season come with a sense of dread and anxiety? Why do we shrink from this annual routine with such pessimism? Managers and employees alike prefer to shun the performance management process and for good reason. Our long-held and strongly modeled beliefs about ... Views: 1180
I have been so excited and inspired by this year's baseball post-season and the big World Series victory by the San Francisco Giants. As a Bay Area native, a lifelong baseball fan, and someone who has been fortunate enough to have the Giants as a client this year, of course I was rooting ... Views: 1972
It is the time of the year to put the clock back in the UK. This reminds me there are things in life that we cannot simply put the clock back. In the business context, these include the decisions we made.
Leaders and executives in the private and public sectors have to make tough decisions in ... Views: 1563
Preparing, Delivering and Reinforcing Your Live Virtual Training
When conducting a live virtual training course, it is especially important to be organized during each step of the process. Below please find a checklist that may help you.
Preparing
Make sure all participants have been ... Views: 1495
Everyone wants to get ahead, make progress, do better, learn more, work their way up, get recognized, receive praise, and be of value. It is no different for the front line employees and managers. They wish to take care of themselves and their families, have a comfortable life, have some fun, ... Views: 1584
First we will get the pay out of the way. Though employees should be paid market value this is simply fair. Pay is not a long term motivator but it certainly can be demotivating. The pay scale should be understood by employees along with market values with the ability to ask for a raise should a ... Views: 1435
Success is talked about throughout society and people seem to be working towards being successful with almost every job that is done. It is interesting that people even decide at an early age at times which profession will be looked at as a successful one. A prestigious job so to speak is one ... Views: 1568
What I’m about to say, will shock most organizational leaders….It’s time to retire the mission statement.
• They don’t motivate anyone.
• They are a waste of time and energy to develop.
• They quickly become part of the corporate wallpaper.
During a recent leadership workshop a ... Views: 1373
What is a problem? It is anything that is real or it can be imagined that becomes an obstacle. It is anything that is halting the forward progress to reaching the goals. Take the fear of public speaking and when thought about much of that fear is false. The fear of being judged by the ... Views: 1624
Ever since my tour of duty in the Marine Corps, I have always aspired to be part of a great team. I have spent most of my career, regardless of what industry I was in, developing teams to help accomplish goals. Even if you work alone, you are still part of a team. Your vendors, clients, and ... Views: 5388
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success…”-Henry Ford
Anyone who has been in multilevel marketing for any length of time realizes quickly how important relationships are to your business. Not only are the relationships with your customers ... Views: 1472
Trust is the fuel that propels teams and organizations to high-levels of success. Yet, organizational leaders today unknowingly do almost everything in their power to sabotage trust.
The primary way in which trust in organizations is sabotaged is by a leader’s communication style. One ... Views: 3475
Many dream of being their own bosses and being in control of their own financial destinies. There are several reasons for this e.g., lack of job security, advances in technology, desire to earn an unlimited income, to be available for family. So they take matters into their own hands by ... Views: 2863
Managers, team builders, leaders, directors or anyone that leads a team works hard to get it on track, keep it on track, and be as productive as possible. But what are the steps that it takes to know that all that hard work is actually working. Take the time to do the following steps making them ... Views: 2656
You’ve wanted to know the secret to meeting management success? Look no further…
Here is YOUR answer to getting things DONE at alllll those meetings we attend.
All it takes is three little words.
Here are the “three little words” that will change your meeting life forever. Who knows, they ... Views: 2271
Rule 1: Say what you want (not what you don’t want)
This is probably the most important rule of NLP. It is very important to remember that EVERYTHING that we say, think or do has an impact on our unconscious mind. It is our goal as NLP practitioners to continually programme our minds with what ... Views: 3653
Removing stress in a team is just one way of helping people to become their best and reach their potential. Very often stress is misunderstood or the causes of stress maybe misdiagnosed. In this article I describe one of the most common causes of stress that very often people fail to identify: ... Views: 2222
You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime…
While you might agree that partnering and teaming achieves more and better outcomes than your own two hands alone, how often do you go beyond just accepting that working with others is simply a reality of business life and consciously ... Views: 2427
Cut the crap, Get to the point, and explain why Team Building is Critical to Success.
First, banish the thought that by finding candidates with similar dispositions, thoughts, and ideas can lead to success. Having bunch of people parroting to one another is like having identikit clones ... Views: 3052
Corporate team building unifies teams, increases job satisfaction, and productivity by putting your team in a non-stressful, fun environment. Yes, they should have a little fun in the name of teamwork. Bringing people together in a carefully guided, but flexible environment, gets participants ... Views: 10834