Attracting the Right Team Players for a Successful Business Team Culture
What are the top 10% looking for when they are recruited onto existing teams? The place to start is building a team culture you know will be successful and produces high levels of satisfaction for employees. Trust: Studies clearly indicate that for team players, trust is far more important in building strong teams—teams that deliver […]
How to Succeed During Uncertain Times
During hard times, it is important that all team members are in sync with your company values and goals. Here are ways to promote an enjoyable, callaborative workplace during hard times. — Diminish Competition and Encourage Collaboration Rewarding one employee for achieving a collective goal rather than all the employees who achieved the goal results in […]
Trust and Effective Team Work at Zappos.com
The leaders of Zappos.com have found ways to anchor trust into every business function—not only with team members but also with customers. Here’s how. First, customer service always exceeds purchaser expectations. Team members in the call center build relationships with their customers. They are free to spend as much time as necessary to see that […]
Why Teambuilding Fails
The old adage that a work team is more effective for solving problems and sparkinginnovation than individual efforts holds true in business. For this reason, many leaders try to form teams to harness the strengths of their employees and many of these efforts fail. Why? Rarely does that leader reflect on their business culture to […]
Risk Management: Look Before You Leap
Team success or failure often hangs on how its leaders and employees manage risk. Risk means taking a chance with the exposure for loss or injury. Some leaders and employees strive to avoid risk because they fear the consequences of failure. However, if leaders develop a team culture that looks at failure as an important […]
Zappos.com—How Empathy Contributed to Their Success
Dianne Crampton, founder of TIGERS Success Series, includes several business case studies in the book about leaders who built their successful “bottom-up” companies with principles of collaboration. Zappos.com was Founded in 1999, the company sold in 2009 to Amazon.com for $850 million. Zappos.com business culture conforms closely to the six principles of collaboration described in Crampton’s book. These principles or values are […]
Why Great Leaders Are Team Players
Most entrepreneurs rarely consciously choose their business culture. They fall into it. Or, it develops by default. It’s crucial at the outset to determine if your business culture is going to be hierarchical—that is top-down— or whether it’s going to be a team culture that supports cooperation and collaboration at all levels of operation. The […]
Are Your Team Members Building Bonds or Building Resentments?
Team collaboration depends on the values that drive its culture. In a success-driven age, studies have demonstrated that a company that builds its teams on a strong set of ethical values is the one that will succeed. 1. Trust If employee morale is interfering with getting the work done, it’s probably because of trust issues which […]
The Behavior-Focused Teambuilding Toolkit
Collaborative team building activities pay off in corporate teambuilding. A team culture where there is respect for leaders, customers, and employees alike and where employees are valued has been proven to be the best environment for sustainable success. Six Behavior-Focused Team Building Activities for your Teambuilding Toolkit that Measurable Improve Corporate Teambuilding: 1. Trust If […]
Welcome to The Tigers Den!
Learn the secret to increasing your team’s profits, improving productivity and fostering creativity to produce results that will blow you away! Dear Executive, Are you sick and tired of hearing your team members squabble when they should be problem-solving? Do you feel like there is more competition than cooperation in your department, and this stifles […]
