This year’s newest challenge: RETURN TO WORK
HR managers are set to tackle an unprecedented challenge: helping organizations and team members return to work amidst an ongoing pandemic. In March of 2020, many managers found themselves sending employees home, armed with a laptop. But now with cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, returning to the old office humdrum is within sight. Or is […]
Collaborative Leadership – Why You Need It
I feel blessed. Over the past year I have virtually connected to so many excellent business people. Eventually we discuss what we are doing to continue to work and operate a business during a pandemic. We have all shared and learned a lot. What often surfaces is the topic of collaborative leadership. What it is […]
Collaboration Trends That Shape Today’s Workplace
There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. If 2020 were a quote, this would be it. This oft-uttered quote by Vladimir Lenin would find its way to the front pages whenever rapid changes take place after a long lull. With this in mind and a distorted year behind us, […]
How to Resolve Conflict
To better grasp how to resolve conflict, let’s head to XYZ Company, a manufacturing company with 80 employees. Will Kirk and Andy learn how to resolve conflict? Kirk, who has been with XYZ for 20 years, is a senior factory manager. He oversees the operations floor, supervises factory workers, and ensures that the factory runs […]
Strength Training for Teams that builds Trust and Interdependence
Synchronized swimming, that breathtaking Olympic sport which combines the rigors of ballet, swimming, and gymnastics underwater, has been part of the Olympics since 1984. Yet many people still assert that it isn’t a sport at all. They argue that it’s “basically underwater ballet” and since ballet isn’t a sport, it shouldn’t be anywhere near the […]
Creating a Cooperative Company Culture
While some leaders may view their employees’ happiness as an added bonus, team member happiness is actually essential for creating a cooperative company culture. Happy employees are more cooperative and productive and have fewer team member conflicts. When team members look forward to coming to work, this leads to lower turnover rates and more innovation […]
Create a Culture of Collaboration with Team Building Strategies
How your employees interact with one another has a huge impact on the cooperation, teamwork and success that teams experience. Poor behavior, bullying and employee infighting lead to a large number of problems, including a decreased quality of work, lower employee morale and slower response times. By implementing proven team building strategies, leaders can create […]
Leadership Team Building that Promotes a Collaborative Work Culture
A supportive and collaborative work culture is one important criteria that determines whether a company will succeed through up and down economic climates or not. Employee morale and productivity are affected by the company’s culture, which affects employee turnover rates that can cost companies unnecessary amounts of money. Culture also determines appropriate values fit for […]
Creating and Sustaining Employee “Fidelity” in the Workplace
Employee infidelity. It can be the demise of today’s businesses. But just what does it mean when employees are unfaithful to an organization? It means that a once solid relationship between employee and employer is now broken and the employee has moved on to a competitor willing to “woo” and nurture their expertise and talents. […]
Team Building Activities Re-engage a Disengaged Workforce
Business coaches and consultants with team building expertise have their work cut out for them in today’s corporate culture. 70% of American employees aren’t working to their full potential and they’re slowing economic growth. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace: 2010-2012 report: out of the 70% disengaged employees – another 18% are actively disengaged. […]
