All Posts for June, 2008

Team Building Program for Manufacturing
June 30th, 2008

The photo is of a team of Screw Machinists from McGard innovative security products. A co-facilitator (Brian Pettit), McGard’s Corporate Trainer (Ron Kaiser) and I recently had the pleasure of leading an 8 week team program for this manufacturing team. These men, Brian, Ron and I went through many stages of forming, storming, norming, performing [...]

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Category: Buffalo NY, Corporate Team Building, images, Leadership Agenda, leadership coaching, Management, manager training, Team Training
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Team Building with Balloons! Brilliant sculpture
June 27th, 2008

image found on Bernie DeKoven, Funsmith Blog I lead many activities with balloons and when I came across this image on Bernie DeKoven’s blog i thought I am going to do this. Balloon Art! how brilliant. * I have led team building activities where groups make furniture from balloons, towers, beds, but never implements of [...]

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Category: creativity, images, innovation, Team Building Activity
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Team Building at it’s Finest!
June 24th, 2008

- Form the Gutter Twins – Idle Hands Video Best video of a group having fun and Bonding! I wonder if the insurance company would cover a challenge course like this! Michael Cardus is Create-Learning

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Category: images, Team Building
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Team Building: Open ended questions – facilitate thoughts for training program effectiveness
June 24th, 2008

Using open ended questions is a tool that a team building facilitator uses to bring participants to examine what was learned. These questions have no right or wrong answer they are meant to trigger thought and insight in the team members. * These questions can be used for front loading – setting up the thoughts [...]

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Category: Corporate Team Building, experiential theory, Management, Processing, Team Training
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Thank You – Buffalo State College USG Board
June 21st, 2008

Thank you – Buffalo State Colleges’ Student Government. It was an honor to serve your team in developing leadership skills and trust for one another. Michael Cardus is Create-Learning

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Category: Buffalo NY, College, Generation Y, images, Leadership
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