Make Way For A New Diversity Training Book

Tips on how to use this anthology, as an innovative diversity training tool.

Is Your Company Working At a Standstill? You Need Activities for Conflict Resolution Skills!

Conflict among staff and team members are typically symptomatic of misperceptions and disintegrated communication – in other words, your employees are probably acting a lot like this:

Boosting Employee Morale With Employee Surveys

This article describes the potential benefits that conducting an employee survey can have on employee morale.

Ignorance Could Be Your Salvation

Instead of bluffing our way through problems, quite often the best way to handle a situation is to confess your ignorance. You might just hit a homerun.

Building A Practice On Purpose Series Part #4 Identifying the Fear-based Culture of Your Business

One way to think of a business is that it's a group of people who have come together for a common cause or purpose. For a veterinary practice that is generally to offer services to pets and their owners. So, it makes sense that when a group of people come together that their individual Inherited Purposes also come together to form a fear-based culture of business.

Team Building: Why Can't Artisans Get Along?

When team members clash, disaster strikes. Project deadlines are missed, HR referees team members, the boss is angry for a week, and the raises everyone expects vanishes in the face of discord. Which personality causes team meetings to be longer than necessary?

Team Building: Yes - We CAN All Get Along!

Disaster can be avoided! When a company evaluates team player's personalities, encourages the strengths of the player and teaches them how to handle their weaknesses, then everyone wins! The employer, the employee, and the bottom line!

Don't Waste Your Money On Team Building

Thousands of companies wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue last year on “Team Building” programs that didn’t develop more of a team atmosphere within their organizations. The term “Team Building” has come to have so many definitions that it can mean just about anything to anybody.

Jack and Marsha - Constructive Conflict in Highly-Effective Teams

Whether it's two people working together or a team of people, conflicts can arise. The highly-effective team often produces a better result when everyone is willing to engage in constructive conflict on the work itself.

Role Behavior in Highly-Effective Teams

Does the behavior that makes individuals successful in their jobs provide the same degree of success in a highly-effective team? The answer is often no.

Coping with Difficult People

I read recently that toxic people make up about ten percent of the population and cause over 50% of all relational damage. For our own well-being and the well-being of those we care about we must learn how to cope with these toxic people at home, at work and at play.

A Coach's Playbook for Workplace Teams

For all the big talk, matching T-shirts and off-site strategy sessions, calling a group of people a team doesn't make it one. Here’s why many groups fall short, the keys to forming an effective team, and team ground rules.

Random Word Brainstorming

Traditional brainstorming has the effect of limiting creativity. The random word process forces the mind to dig deeper. Intuition is stimulated, and creativity flows.

Team Building Exercises - Choosing the Right One

A step by step guide on how to select the best activity for a team building session - including how to avoid the most common mistake that people make.

Danny . . . the Office Bully

Danny doens't listen to people. Once he has formed a solution in his mind, he closes out any other type of communication. He shouts down opposition. And no matter what, Danny is always right. The other people are always wrong. When there is a problem he runs to management to present his side first . . . and Danny has been known to lie to cover his own misdeeds.