Work Team Development Trends

As organizations continue to grow, trends show a greater focus on work team development. Rather than each employee working individually, companies are now striving to create a cohesive, unified work environment. This team-oriented culture no longer encourages the ‘every man for himself’ or ‘dog-eat-dog’ mentality of whoever can climb to the top first, wins. A […]

Encourage Risk-Taking to Bolster Team Building Success

Risk is defined as a ‘situation involving exposure to danger or failure.’  So when you mention the word, risk, several emotions come to mind such as: Fear Failure Stress Anxiety But without the element of risk, there would be no new discoveries, innovation, or progress – especially in the world of business. Without risk, organizations […]

Replace a Cut-Throat Work Culture with an Empathetic Culture To Spark Engagement

When you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, you understand their situation, feelings, and motives. That’s empathy…and today’s corporations, leaders, and employees seem to come up short on this basic soft skill.   Empathy is a skill important to building good workforce relationships. When individuals are empathetic, they recognize emotions being experienced by another, […]

Moving Toward Team Cooperation and Emotional Intelligence – 2013 Trend #1

I recently posted a blog, 2013 Business Trends, expressing my viewpoint on business culture trends for 2013. I touched on the three trends briefly, but intend to fully expand on each over the next few blog posts. The first trend I talked about is two-fold: #1 – Progressive companies will begin developing a cooperative team […]