Archive for the ‘Team Development’ Category
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Why team building should be experiential
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Running team building events never grows tiresome for me and I can’t see it ever being the case. You see, I believe, done in the right way it is still the fastest, most beneficial way to experience real shifts in attitude and performance. A fair number of years ago I learned about David Kolb and [...]
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Team Building in the Midlands – Where else?
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
I’m a southerner born and bred but I’ve been living in the Midlands for around 8 years now and have become very fond of the place I now call home. So what makes it such a great home and secondly, what makes it great for team building? As a home the midlands offers lots of [...]
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Using Q12 to Develop Great Teams
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I’ve been in the business of developing teams for a fair number of years now and I am pretty sure I’ve seen most forms of team development, team building and whatever else you want to call it. But it’s a very true saying that there are many ways to skin a cat (not that I’d [...]
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How do you measure the overall effectiveness of a team?
Friday, February 13th, 2009
I’ve had a passion for some time to create a tool for measuring the overall ability of a team. I’ve been researching various articles and thinking on the subject and came across the following article which I found interesting. I hope you will too.
___________________________________________________We have been talking a lot about team measures with our clients over the last few years. The reactions we get to these conversations have been interesting. Sometimes when we introduce the subject of measures we see eyes glaze over. It’s like talking about taxes—a tedious, detailed task of administration we know we have to do, but really wish we could avoid. Intellectually, everyone understands the importance of reliable and timely feedback data to continuous improvement, but few seem able to muster the energy, time, buy-in and resources to develop useful measurement systems. We wondered how many organizations were struggling with these issues and what we could learn from the successes and trials of others