Corporate Team Building Activity - Failure to Achieve Results

Last team building program a total failure? Many organizations hire a team building facilitator with little to no research on what they wish to achieve. This article lists 4 common reasons why most team building programs fail...more

Team Building - Break the Comfort Levels

Managers and leaders are encouraged to create procedures and policies that encourage people to follow proven "trails" to create a measurable outcome, maybe a sale, or a product. Managers spend time working to make people be at their most effective. How often do managers....more

Ropes Course For Team Building - Are You Sure That Is What You Need?

Ropes courses have their fit with team building and leadership development, if properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to work life. The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course experience is to have realistic expectations...more
Corporal Punishment & Team Building

Employees [of Californian home security company] were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against each other, according to court documents....more

Choosing a Team-Building Program

Although you can select and run team-building exercises for your company by yourself, experts say it's better to hire a consultant or outside facilitator to ensure the program has a long-term impact....more

Manager and Leader Key Difference

For many people, the terms "manager" and "leader" are synonymous. In the business world, they are often used interchangeably, i.e. "team leader", "team manager", "project manager" - you get the idea. And why not? After all, leaders and managers do basically the same thing, right?...more

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Experiential Based Education

Principles of experiential learning are used to design experiential education. Emphasis is placed on the subjective nature of participants' experiences...more

Teamwork Vital to Millennials

Social, optimistic, well-educated, achievement-hungry, collaborative, inclusive and hopeful. These are adjectives used to describe the Millennials (born 1980-2000) who are entering the work force with even higher expectations then Generation X...more
Web Rage: Why It Happens, What It Costs You, How to Stop

Flaming, of course, refers to an e-mail message that comes across as rude or otherwise annoying, and a flame war happens when the recipient of such a message flames back, leading to an arms race of insult...more

Foundations of Experiential Learning

Dewey speaks of “stimulating new ways of observation and judgment” which is the path of reflection. Today, reflection is also known as processing,...more

Experiential and Team Building Fact Sheet

Principles of experiential learning are used to design experiential education. Emphasis is placed on the subjective nature of participants' experiences. The teacher's goal is to help organize and facilitate access to direct experiences of phenomenon such that genuine (meaningful and long-lasting) learning occurs....more
The High Cost of the Bad Boss

Most people who have been in the workforce for a while have suffered at least one bad boss. The tales about such managers can become the stuff of legend or satire. But those tales can also mask the real costs of bad bosses to individual employees and the organization as a whole...more

Teamwork Raises Everyone's Game

Research from a variety of settings, from hospital operating rooms to Wall Street, suggests that the way people work together is important for an endeavor's success -- even in fields thought of as dominated by individual "stars."...more