Michael Cardus is the Founder of Create-Learning-Team Building, an experiential based training and development consulting organization, as well as a blogger for TeamBuilding NY.

Mike has a background in Team Building facilitation, team development and Leadership Development.

Mike’s philosophy of training is that it ought to be purposeful, engaging and interactive; making the learner the central resource for the training. This creates teams that have lower turnover rates, as well as increased rates of production and effectiveness.

Mike specializes in developing accountability and collaboration amongst Multi-Generational teams, as well as Leadership development with team members who are new to leadership roles. By focusing on the similarities that generations have teams begin to view the sameness as opposed to the differences we possess. When teams see sameness and value differences as points of strength - then information starts to be shared and team accountability is accomplished. The end results of these processes are increased retention of the team members, this equals increased team member satisfaction and increased profits.

Mike’s passion for working with new leaders stems from the fact that many organizations promote highly skilled technical individuals to positions of leadership. The same skills that the highly skilled team member possessed do not transfer well over to leading a team of people who are asked to be effective. This new position creates a fear cycle in the newly promoted leader.

Leaders that lead out of fear are like an anchor to a team’s effectiveness.