Want a Successful Team? You Need Effective Communication
If you want cohesive and successful teamwork, you need effective communication. Plain and simple. For better or worse, most of us can remember those days of “picking teams.” Whether it was on the playground or in gym class, the fine art of...
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Why Should Business Conduct Team Building Training?
Employees are the foundation of any business. Individually, they may all have unique roles, but each of those roles fit together as one operational unit. Think of it as a large puzzle, each piece is different, but they match up together perfectly to form a cohesive...
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2 Success Factors That Will Get Your Life and Career on the Fast Track
Your life is boring…There, I said it. Not only is it boring, but you’ve given up your dreams and decided to float through life. You’re not happy about it either. Every day you wake up depressed because life is slowly, painfully fading away― and you’re left out. You’re...
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Time to Take a Step Back and Find Your Zen
A couple of Fridays ago, I decided to do something that I rarely do, but recognize I need to do more often - I took a half day off! We live in a world where we are rarely disconnected: from work, from the news, from the internet. Days, weeks,...
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Who Is Your Villain-Hero? And Why?
While you may have never heard the term “villain-hero”, there’s a good chance you’ve come across one. A villain-hero is someone in your life that made it hell for a period of time, but as awful as it was, the situation ended up working in your...
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Learning and Leadership: What Laughter Does To Bring Them Together
Let’s face it: anxiety and leadership often go hand-in-hand. We don’t intend for it to be this way, of course. Yet more often than not, leaders become overly-fixated on making sure they always say and do the right thing, never wanting to commit...
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Why Vulnerability-Based Trust Is Essential for Team Building
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation and creativity”- Brené Brown Brené Brown, an inspiring research professor at the University of Houston, shared this post on LinkedIn a few weeks back: “We asked managers a simple question: What...
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Conflict is the Question? Listening is the Answer.
Conflict is a concept many of us try to avoid at all cost. Whether it is with co-workers, a team member, or family members, the source of conflict that many times puts a “pit in our stomach” can be the direct result of feedback. So how do we...
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When it Comes to Team Building, There’s No “I” in Team
If you’ve ever worked on building a team, chances are you’ve come across that one character that thinks they’re the “I” in team. You know who they are; that person that wants to be the best, have the last word and they don’t care whether the...
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You Could or You Would, But Don’t Ever Should
Should’ve, would’ve, could’ve… they all share the same connotation, and it’s not good. It’s amazing how often the language we use and the meaning and emotion behind that language can hold us back in our day to day. Case in point… during a...
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