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Michael Cardus is the Founder of Create-Learning-Team Building, an experiential based training and development consulting organization, as well as a blogger for TeamBuilding NY.
Team Building offices located throughout Western New York, in Buffalo NY, Rochester NY, Syracuse NY.
Mike has a background in experiential theory, team building, ropes course facilitation, team development,Leadership Development and entomology. Mike’s philosophy of training is that it ought to be purposeful, engaging and interactive; making the learner the central ... [More]
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- Team Building - Perception of Repetition Adds Value to Team Experience
[Business:Team-Building] Working with corporate clients. Many of them have giving me the pleasure of consulting with them for many years now. Some at this point know and have a good idea of my "bag of tricks" as well as have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers that they require. How does this apply to Challenge courses & Ropes Courses - everyone has a perception that is created within their minds. Also the team creates a perception this is the team view. This article illustrates adding value to repeated Team Building Activities.
- Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Be Useful to One Another - Part 2
[Business:Team-Building] Aristotle suggested that friends must "be useful to one another". Team members that have satisfaction with their jobs and stay with a team for years have developed a deep understanding of reciprocal team tasks and responsibilities with the team members' roles. This falls back to the idea mentioned earlier of "being a team member as opposed to making oneself desirable for membership in the team".
- Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Enjoy Each Others Company - Part 1
[Business:Team-Building] Aristotle suggested that friends must enjoy each other's company. Some people within work teams place the focus of enjoyment on others. They spend time viewing friends, colleagues, and organizations as places and people that should see and desire to find the treasure that is within them. Team members work very hard at being likeable and making themselves desirable for membership on the team. Developing an environment that is like a market place.
- Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Have a Common Commitment to the Good - Part 3
[Business:Team-Building] Aristotle suggested that friends "have a common commitment to the good". Goals, metrics, benchmarks within a culture where the team members focus on making their team and organization successful while remaining accountable for their actions, a commitment to the common good. A team member that is lacking a commitment to the common good is one that is only making themselves desirable for the next opportunity.
- Challenge (Ropes) Course - Rethink the Standard For Team Training - Increase Commitment to Results
[Business:Team-Building] Ropes courses have their fit with team building and leadership development, if properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to work life. The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done. The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done. What team members should realize is that there are great team building activities out there that do not require a ropes course, that push your limits mentally and physically and allow the team to use all its power to replicate and solve work and organizational problems.
- Internal Motivation of Team Members - Team Building Activity in Motivation
[Business:Team-Building] Overcoming challenges that appear impossible although with assistance and motivation from a network we can take our level of expertise and amplify it - with help. Pride causes us to not ask for help when needed. We feel that we built this thing (business etc..) we can do it alone, and often time our motivation for greatness causes blind spots that we are not aware of. Although greatness comes to those who admit that they need help and learned from the mistakes and successes of others.
- Team Value Added Decisions
[Business:Team-Building] What value are you giving to your organization? This is a question that as a team member you ought to be focusing on. We spend time thinking "What are they doing for me?" This thought creates resentment and a victim mentality within yourself.
- Team Building Activity - Bright, Blurry, Blind - Enhance Organizational Transparency
[Business:Team-Building] A team building activity that give teams and participants an opportunity to think and speak about concerns and give accolades to each other. Additionally by illuminating topics within departments and the organization, teams can then brain storm and strengthen the team. Facilitating a "one team" atmosphere then empowering the participants to share information and techniques that are successful that may have never had the opportunity to be shared in an open forum.
- Train the Trainer & Experiential Facilitator Team Building Training
[Business:Team-Building] An example of a train the trainer-experiential trainer-team building facilitator program for a corporate organization. This sample program was created for adult learners and is weighted towards experiential development and providing transference of learning to the participants lives at work and home.
- Environmentalism & Team Building - False Direction of Team Theories
[Business:Team-Building] I was in a discussion with some professors at College Leadership Conference about the "Green Movement". I made the comment that many colleges and businesses are shifting to green initiatives because it is the "in" thing recently. While I visit many college campuses I see litter and little to no recycling and I see false environmental Jargon with no teeth. These professors stared at me for a moment, then expressed that many of them do not know what to do to justify the environmental movement on campus.
- Paradigm Shift - Which Map Are You Working From?
[Business:Team-Building] Teams reach a level of success and think if we just do this faster, better cheaper we will continue to progress. The reality is that the team will only get to a certain point - I call it the "Plateau". Following the Plateau comes the - "Crash" - the crash occurs when the team loses sight of what brought them there in the first place and lose all the steps that brought them to the plateau.
- Team Building Facilitator Tips - Silence - the Hammer in Your Tool Box
[Business:Team-Building] Silence - just when you feel that you need to jump in and save the team, that is when you need to be a true leader and get out the way. Teams are only accountable if you expect them to be accountable - put the power where it belongs in your teams' hands.
- Corporate Team Building Program - Sales Team Development Sample Agenda
[Business:Team-Building] An example of a team building program developed for a team of 20 sales professionals from a functional sales team. The program was an afternoon program. The morning was spent discussing sales team "best practices" and an interactive lecture on game theory.
- Team Building Activity - Mind Spin - Brainstorming, Problem Solving, Creative Thought Development
[Business:Team-Building] Mind Spin - creates an environment of unstructured brain storming. This Team Building activity can also be used for a creative solution finding initiative and a processing event at the end of a workshop. Can easily be adapted to fit your team needs.
- Successful Teams - What Makes Them?
[Business:Team-Building] What are the right action steps to take for a successful team? I have been pondering this question for several weeks now. Is it logistics, Fishbone charts, 8D Problem Solving, 6 Sigma Projects, training programs, Gen x workers Gen y workers - millennials, baby boomers etc... Are you prepared for a successful team - many people and leaders say yes and do not really mean it. A team that has success is also a team that has failures - many - many failures. A team with success also has challenges - many - many - many challenges. A team with success has conflict - lots - lots - lots of conflict. A team with success is transparent - the leadership & team members share with the team all that is going on.
- Team Building Program - Sample Agenda Community Building & Inter-Departmental Collaboration
[Business:Team-Building] Often time Team Building Organizations and Customers looking for a team building program lack the understanding of what a "Team Building Agenda" looks like. Below is a sample group full day agenda...
- Team Building Success - 4 Steps To Implement
[Business:Team-Building] Do you want your team building program to be a success? While many factors play a part in creating a successful meeting, off site and team training program - here are 4 ways that work for organizations team success. 1) Full understanding of why they are there, 2) Proper Sequencing of Events, 3) Focus on Processing and Debriefing, 4) Follow up and now what?
- Open Ended Questions - Super Size Your Team Building Event
[Business:Team-Building] Using open ended questions is a tool that a team building facilitator uses to bring participants to examine what was learned. These questions have no right or wrong answer they are meant to trigger thought and insight in the team members. These questions can be used for front loading - setting up the thoughts prior to the beginning of a team building activity. These questions can also be used following an activity to reflect on the team and where they are going.
- Team Building - Break the Comfort Levels
[Business:Team-Building] Managers and leaders are encouraged to create procedures and policies that encourage people to follow proven "trails" to create a measurable outcome, maybe a sale, or a product. Managers spend time working to make people be at their most effective. How often do managers, individuals, and teams push themselves out of their discipline? How often are individuals and teams given the opportunity to safely practice pushing that comfort zone, to walk a different "trail"?
- Experiential Training and Development
[Reference-and-Education:Future-Concepts] Experiential education is just like other learning processes in the way that it is best taught and understood by the breaking down into stages. Experiential learning cycles treat the learner's subjective experience as of critical importance in the learning process. Experiential learning cycles (ELC) draw on experiential education principles, which are largely based on the educational philosophy of John Dewey.
- Corporate Team Building Activity - Failure To Achieve Results
[Business:Team-Building] Last team building program a total failure? Many organizations hire a team building facilitator with little to no research on what they wish to achieve. This article lists 4 common reasons why most team building programs fail.
- Employees Were Paddled And Had Pies Thrown In Their Face - Team Building Events
[Business:Team-Building] Employees were paddled and had pies tossed into their face. All in the name of fun and team building. These events are what gives the term "team building" a bad name and why many organizations would rather have team members sit through a 6 hour power point (death) presentation, then hire professionals to create a stronger team.
- Shared Leadership from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"
[Self-Improvement:Leadership] A leader who is highly talented has all the knowledge, is brought into a company as the "Savior" and the company still fails to succeed. Excellent leaders are able to build and create a team that exceed the competence of one all knowing power house of leadership.
- Team Building Consultant - Consultant, Trainer And Facilitator
[Business:Team-Building] Team Building consultants generally use three overlapping, but distinct roles (Consultant-Trainer-Facilitator). Each of the roles mentioned in this article keeps the learning and Team training meaningful, self-reflective, team-reflective, and most importantly fun!
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