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Recent Posts Tagged With 'team building'
You Can't Have Teamwork If You Can't Manage the Change
In my opinion, the reason why many efforts to build teamwork go to waste is because managers fail to manage the change. I often get inquiry about team building and when I inquire back about how far they want to go with it, I get silence.Many managers...
A Culture of Candor and Assertiveness in the Filipino Workplace
Note: Not all Filipinos are passive or have the tendency to avoid conflicts or confrontations but most are. In this blog, I'm talking about most Filipinos, not all.There's not enough of it in most Filipino work places. We Filipinos are not big on say...
My Recommendations for Building a Strong Filipino Team
Aside from the fact that I am a Filipino working in a Filipino setting, I observed that Filipinos are different in many ways from people in the west and even from neighboring countries. This is of course not to say that we are totally different. It i...
Team Building Lessons That Blew Me Away
As a team building facilitator, I am blessed with so much life learning each time I go out there and facilitate. There are a number of precious moments when participants would share important realizations or insights that would blow me away. There a...
Teamwork and Bosswork Both Work But...
I agree with Patrick Lencioni's thesis that Teamwork is characterized by trust, conflict management, commitment, accountability and focus on results. Trust is manifested through open communication. Open communication is manifested through healthy dis...
The Tyranny of the Blind Carbon Copy
I read from somewhere that Albert Einstein regretted his participation in a project that lead to the invention and eventual use of the Atomic bomb. He must have realized the terror of the weapon of mass destruction after its effect became real.I don'...
Should I Fire an Employee to Improve Teamwork?
I've asked that same question myself several times in the past and hopefully not again in the future. Very recently a client asked me a question that seems to lead there. He said, what do I do with an employee who is fairly good at what he does techn...
Good Customer Service is a Product of Teamwork
It's one of those high end resorts in Southern Tagalog Region where I facilitated a teambuilding workshop for a group project managers. Normally I would prefer real team building venues where the resort staffs are trained, skilled and experienced in ...
Sense of Community
Don't just put up a workplace, build a community.I believe there's profit to be had in building good relationship among employees. Before I wrote that last sentence, I thought about putting working between good and relationship but that would limit i...
Why The Big Boss Can Make A Lot of Difference in the Team Building Process
I always appreciate it when the big boss of a company participates and I mean really participate in a team building program of a company. This is because it makes a lot of difference in the level of team energy, participation and of course outcome.I'...
Bad Team Politics
I was in a restaurant with a management team of a small company sometime last year. They treated me to dinner to, as they said pick my brains (They have to find it first). They were concerned about some employees' behaviors and are split between two ...
Preventing Office Gossip
I received this inquiry a few days ago...Hi Edwin...My concern is very minor but am sure a you can relate to this and would probably be willing to share your experiences...We are about 26 employees all in all and with this count, i'd say we have a ve...
Absence of Trust in Your Team is Costing You Money
You probably find it hard enough to accept that people in your team don't trust each other. I won't be surprised if you find the idea of losing money (or opportunities to earn more money) because of this as quite a stretch. But before you dismiss thi...
Leadership Lessons from Saving Private Ryan
I was already half asleep in the bus as I traversed the two-hour journey home from Makati to Fairview when I heard the dialogue between Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and Pfc Richard Reiben (Edward Burns). They were showing "Saving Private Ryan". I...
Management Teambuilding
A lot of times, the lack of teamwork in an organization can be traced back to the management team and why not? It's the management team that shapes the culture of the organization. The little kingdoms we see are built by managers who build solidarity...
Workplace Bullies and "Horton Hears a Who"
(Spoiler alert! If you haven't seen the movie and are wanting to do so and don't want to read or hear some bits and pieces from the movie without seeing it first, I suggest you watch it before reading this.)I watched the movie "Horton Hears a Who" an...
Being a Jerk Vs. Being Brutally Honest
This is a follow-up on my last post regarding jerk removal :)What tempted me to write this follow-up is my fear that some readers might misunderstand me and overdo it. The other extreme of being a jerk is being dishonest and we don't want that in our...
Ridding Your Team of Jerks
No, I don't mean fire them although that would have been the sweetest thing you could probably think of. And to wish that you can fire all the jerks in your team just signify the importance of ridding the team of them.Jerks make working in teams diff...
Team Leadership Before Teamwork
Holding a teambuilding workshop without investing in Team Leadership development first is a potential waste of time, money and effort…It’s teambuilding season once again folks and I’m sure that a lot of you are preparing to hold some kind of te...
Best Places to Do Outdoor Teambuilding In Luzon, Philippines
Wanna go outdoor teambuilding this summer? Let me share with you some of the venues I've visited and facilitated teambuilding in Luzon. For those who have seen better venues in the Philippines, I'm sorry but I can only write about the places I've bee...
