10 Tips for Creating a Whopping-Good Teambuilding Scavenger Hunt
10 Tips for Creating a Whopping-Good Teambuilding Scavenger Hunt Scavenger hunts have been around since the dawn of human civilization. One might argue that Homer’s Odyssey was just a big treasure hunt, as was Jason’s search for the Golden Fleece and the Arthurian Knight’s quest for the Holy Grail. (Not to […]
10 Tips for Promoting Team Mindfulness
10 Tips for Promoting Team Mindfulness It’s no secret that we’re all experiencing unprecedented levels of stress, both in our personal lives and especially in the workplace. One solution for mitigating all this agitation is to take your team out of the office (playing a teambuilding scavenger hunt, perhaps) – blowing off steam, unplugging, […]
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The 12 Best Ways to Motivate Your Team
Okay, you got me! As managers, we can’t really “motivate” anyone to do anything – at least, not in the long term. Oh sure, we can briefly dangle a carrot (or wield a stick), but take away the external factors and poof –there goes the motivation. Rather than focusing on penalties and incentives, it’s far […]
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Scavenger Hunts
1) Teambuilding “scavenger hunts” and “treasure hunts” are two different animals. A scavenger hunt involves the execution of a simple list. For example, in a scavenger hunt, you receive a list of objects to find, or pictures to take — all very straightforward. By contrast, a treasure hunt involves the solving of tricky clues that […]
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10 Sure-Fire Ways to Boost Team Productivity
Here are 10 sure-fire ways to boost team productivity. Note that I’m not saying “teamwork” or “teambuilding”. Where the rubber meets the road is productivity–deliverables–work getting done. All the rest is fluff. 1) Decide which tasks would benefit from a team approach and which tasks could better be done individually, and ONLY do […]
Is Teambuilding a Waste of Money?
Recently I came across this very interesting and challenging article in the Harvard Business Review, titled: Stop Wasting Money on Team Building by Carlos Valdes-Dapena In a nutshell, the author argues that most corporate teambuiilding is a waste of time. He refers to bowling, ropes courses, and the like, and references one company which took […]
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Teamwork vs. Teaming
Did you know there is a difference between “teamwork” and “teaming”? I didn’t either until I watched a great TED talk by Amy Edmondson, which you can watch here. It’s called “How to Turn A Group of Strangers into a team”. Edmondson suggests that teamwork is what sports teams do. Teamwork is: –stable –a […]