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Forget Paintball; Hip Hop Is The Freshest Exercise In Team Building

A Pittsburgh organization is helping students and businesses alike discover their strengths through a unique program that charges them with creating a hip-hop CD from conception to completion. Each person is assigned an executive position and has the unique opportunity to see what it’s like to run a mock record label. READ»

Why I Think CEOs Should Apologize

Every CEO is in a position of leadership, and that means that every day, people are looking to your actions. CEOs also make mistakes. And that's where the graciousness of your team, and the graciousness of you, come in. We need to apologize, and quickly.READ»

Greenhorn Power: Never give up until you ask advice from someone who has no idea.

BP has leading experts formulating solutions, and is there a greenhorn (or many) in the room? Getting the opinion of the subject matter experts is reflexive in any problem solving situation, but what about the absolute amateurs? READ»

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Has Starbuck's Entered the Car Detailing Business?

What does it mean to possess "Human Being-Ness?"READ»

Corporate Game Shows with Game Show America

Game Show America brings the WOW Factor to corporate events with exciting interactive game shows that allow the entire audience to play along!READ»

Meeting Planners and Economical Decisions

Planning your next meeting? If so, then you'll want to read this article about how to save money and still get a big ROI on your event.READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Dirt at work:As I have explained before, nonsense is just waiting to happen.  Why?  Because it is an abundant, natural, renewable resource.  I realized this when I watched two dung beetles at work in the African ...READ»

Fun is a business tool

The fisherman is in a band. I ventured down to listen to them play this weekend and I observed something taking place that was playful, creative and focused. What unfolded was an amazing scene of positive, productive teamwork that ...READ»

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Life Lessons My Children Taught Me On The Golf Course

While playing a round of golf with my kids... I learned some important lessons about life.READ»

Team Leadership Program

* The leadership team was able to reduce overtime, increase the average sale to the customer and increase the average sales commission of team members. This was accomplished by the leadership team examining its existing processes and re-organizing the process to return maximum results. * Employee satisfaction (results gathered from employee surveys) increased, showing that leadership was better at developing strengths and creating challenging yet achievable goals for teams and team members. * The leaders were able to create a system for employees to fill in shifts at other locations. This system enabled the organization to maximize employee and leadership time as well as lessen burn out and stress amongst team members. READ»

Virtual Project Management Tool Organizes Project Steps

The virtual workspace is a project management tool that allows individuals, groups and business teams to connect and collaborate on projects digitally. Teams can plan projects, update project steps, organize events and create reports ...READ»

Virtual Project Integration: Provide Project Web Access with Collaboration Software

Project managers know one of the most stressful parts of a project occurs when two separate parts of a project arrive, but don’t quite fit or work together as the initial plan predicted.  To ensure synergistic project ...READ»

Death to Bureaucracies!

Bureaucracies are totally toxic, dysfunctional organizations. Unfortunately, they are to be found everywhere irrespective of whether they operate in a third world or a first world country. Also, my own experience has shown me that the ...READ»

How Can TeamBuilding be Effective?

Within a team building program participants are encouraged to do things that scare them, to push their comfort zone to create and connect new brain based synapses and discover new ways of approaching and solving problems. To empower yourself and teams to see people and feel experiences in a way that at one point seemed impossible.READ»

Friendship and Team-Work

A team that is lacking a commitment to the common good is one that will fail. This is the responsibility of all team members, not just management. Once team members make the choice to be “useful to one another,” as well as “enjoy the other team members’ company,” a unified set of goals can emerge. These unified goals translate into increased productivity, lower turnover, and the development of a team that is high-functioning and effective.READ»

Does This Sound Like Your Corporate Culture?

Something For All Involved in a Corporate Culture To Think AboutI found this quote in the draft of a book I have been writing forever.   Although the authors Cooper and Sawaf wrote this ten years ago, my perception is that ...READ»

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Ability to Change by Ted Eleftheriou

STORY ONE: SEBASTIANOur fifth family member is a guinea pig named Sebastian. When we adopted him our kids hoped he would play tag, catch balls tossed to him, or find him among stuffed animals during a game of hide-and-seek. When the ...READ»

It is Leadership Character that Will Get Us Through this Recession

Two Kinds of LeadersSo if you have been reading my blogs – firstly I thank you, and secondly you will know that I come from the platform that there are two kinds of leaders – those who lead with ego and those who lead with ...READ»

Picking Up the Pieces After a Lay-off

Keeping your people motivated in normal economic times is difficult enough. But how do you pick up the pieces after you've just had a lay-off in your organization?READ»

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Average - by Ted Eleftheriou

Why average doesn't work!READ»