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I get asked all the time for team-building exercises. And, as most of us know, most activities for teams don’t cut the mustard. In other words, they’re lame.
As I’ve talked to and learned about businesses with happy employees I’ve noticed a common theme of team sacrifice existing in the history of the company.
Whether the company is a start-up, fighting for survival or trying to Read more >
Last week I heard of a company that did something truly brilliant.
One of their team members was headed in for open-heart surgery.
The company bought everyone Fitbits and for every 1 million steps in the month, Read more >
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5 More Questions to Support Workplace Team Building
Napkin Sketch of Bench Culture Champions, As you know, for ten years I’ve been creating emotional intimacy and camaraderie in a variety of workplaces. I’m now also in the creation of a Read more >
Stop Awkward Silence: How to get team input, feedback and participation in team meetings
Are you tired of asking your team in a meeting for their input and all you get is crickets? Or you only keep getting that one person speaking up? If you feel like Read more >
Top 3 Ways on How to Work with Millennials
“We love our millennials!” I heard this from two companies this week. This had me smile from ear to ear. It would seem the tide is turning. Companies are starting to get how to Read more >
Empowering Fridays at 3:00: How to Have Effective Team Meetings
If your team works a traditional schedule, the last two hours of the work week are often a waste, but they don't have to be. You can hold effective, weekly team meetings on Friday afternoons Read more >
What Does Team Mean?
Just recently I had someone share the idea of being team as compared to being part of a team. We didn’t have time to talk further, and yet when they said it, I was taken Read more >
Why Nice Teams Finish Last
My brother-in-law recently got a job in retail sales of satellite TV. Here’s a psychological trick he was taught – ask the nice young couple who has stepped into the big box store to follow Read more >
Critical to Your Team’s Culture: Equal Air Time
In researching what makes successful teams, Google’s “Project Aristotle” found psychological safety was key. A group norm that supports psychological safety is “equality in distribution of conversational turn-taking.” Meaning, everyone has more or less equal Read more >
When Play Informs How We Work
Play is one of the first arenas in which we learn how to work with others. Share, take turns and don’t pinch. (It took me a while to get that last one.) Last week, I Read more >
Best Team Building Activity EVER
Best Team Building Activity EVER I promise, no trust falls. No charades. Instead, social super glue. Any good team building exercise feeds the desire to be known, to matter and to be included by uncovering Read more >
