Organizational Perception Charts
Materials:
Multi-Colored markers
3 flip charts per department
Objective:
For team members to explore their perceptions of the other departments and for departments to explore their perceptions of other departments.
Additionally for departments to explain their role to people who are not in their department.
Preparation:
Prepare three flip chart pages per/dept and write the name of the department on the top of the flip chart paper.…
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Added by michaelcardus on November 28, 2009 at 7:50am —
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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.
Mangers spend time working to make people be at their most effective.
How often do mangers, 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”?
Once a manager, individual, an…
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Added by michaelcardus on June 25, 2009 at 5:16am —
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I was engaged in an interesting discussion with a meeting coordinator from a large manufacturing organization.
We will call the meeting coordinator Sara.
Sara calls and we start talking about the organization she works with. I bring her through the opening questions.
We speak for almost 25 minutes the group wanted a Team Building Icebreaker for 30 minutes in the evening. I made some suggestions of what will work best. She tells me that one of the executive staff spoke to another participant fr…
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Added by michaelcardus on April 12, 2009 at 7:44am —
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Sample Agenda of a Corporate Team Development program that Create-Learning-Team Building facilitated for a large group of 250+ participants.
This program was held at a Corporate Conference Center.
This program can be customized for your teams' unique needs.
Corporate TeamBuilding Overview:
Facilitating an off-site team development program located at a conference center in Western New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse…
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Added by michaelcardus on March 20, 2009 at 6:24am —
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This is a sample Team Building Program that was created for a Non-Profit Health Care organization. The focus is on decision making amongst the internal teams.
This program can be customized to fit both for profit and not for profit clients.
Program Overview:
Facilitating communication and increased effectiveness of staff and the population served.
Communication and unified decision making within the team is necessary…
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Added by michaelcardus on March 20, 2009 at 6:11am —
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With this mantra of economic doom and gloom organizational leaders are shifting their focus away from Team Development and talent enhancement, forcing them to scramble to cut costs.
...top leaders around the world ranked financial pressures to cut costs and rapid market decline as their toughest business challenges, dropping talent management to last on the list of business challenges.
Developing and retaining high-performing talent is a key business strategy that should not be overlooked…Train…
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Added by michaelcardus on March 20, 2009 at 6:00am —
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This orientation program can be customized for Incoming Students and Outgoing students alike.
Additionally this orientation program is customizable for all educational institutions - Universities, Colleges, High School, Middle School, etc...
Program Overview:
This student orientation program is a full day (4 - 6 hour) student orientation program.
The program includes a portable ropes course & TeamBuilding initiatives to incr…
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Added by michaelcardus on March 8, 2009 at 4:38pm —
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Personal
Team Building Consultant story; Some of you who read my blog know that before I started Create-Learning-Team Building I worked as the Workforce Development-Team Building Director for a local conference center.
Things did not end well between the them and me. If you want to hear that story contact me. I am rather transparent in the story (although realize it will be biased.)
I was abruptly asked to not return to my former employe…
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Added by michaelcardus on March 4, 2009 at 6:09am —
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Recently I was facilitating a team of 15 - a group that wished to enhance their team skills by creating a culture of empowerment.
As I progressed through the training I saw that when I posed a question and asked the team to spend some time (generally 3-5 minutes) planning how they would solve the team building activity - all I heard was silence. Then after about 10 seconds their manager would jump in and tell the team what to do, assign roles and delegate tasks.
During the break time I met wit…
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Added by michaelcardus on February 22, 2009 at 6:00am —
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Your corporate team building program was not a success?
Here are four possible reasons why.
1)
Lack of understanding why they are there.
If the participants are not made aware of the reason for the team building program there can be some serious hostility. Some coordinators like to "keep the people in the dark" and surprise them with team building. Another common idea is, "we will not tell them what we are doing and when it starts they will be totally surprised".
These two ideas are a r…
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Added by michaelcardus on February 18, 2009 at 5:18am —
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I work mainly 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 I will call this perception individual construct (IC).
Also the team creates a perceptio…
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Added by michaelcardus on January 20, 2009 at 6:14am —
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Team Members should be friends?
Aristotle suggested that friendship, like successful team membership, has three components:
• They must enjoy one another’s company.
• They must be useful to one another.
• They must share a common commitment to the good.
Team Members Must Enjoy One Another’s Company
What does it mean to enjoy another team member’s company? What is it that just makes the other members of a work team not just tolerable but enjoyable?
A mistake many new (or even e…
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Added by michaelcardus on January 20, 2009 at 6:12am —
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Aristotle suggested that friends "have a common commitment to the good".
If we substitute the word "team members" for "friends" we can develop personal enhancement skills and enhance our value to the company by focusing on improving our skills as an effective member of the team.
Team Members have a Common Commitment to the Good
Goals, metrics, benchmarks within a culture where the members focus on making their department and organization successful while remaining accountable for their…
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Added by michaelcardus on January 7, 2009 at 6:32am —
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Aristotle suggested that friends must "be useful to one another"
If we substitute the word "team members" for "friends" we can develop skills and enhance our value to the organization by focusing on improving our skills as an effective members of a community.
Team Members must be Useful to One Another
This is what a team is for. To develop a network and system of shared usefulness. A shared usefulness where there is a shared knowledge of roles and responsibilities for each member of the depa…
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Added by michaelcardus on January 6, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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Aristotle suggested that friends must enjoy each other's company.
If we substitute the word "team members" for "friends" we can develop team skills and enhance our value to the team by focusing on improving our skills as an effective team member.
Team Members Must Enjoy Each Other's Company
What does it mean to enjoy another's company?
What makes co-workers just tolerable and not enjoyable?
Some people within workplaces focus enjoyment on others. They spend time viewing friends, colleagues,…
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Added by michaelcardus on January 5, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Situation Summary
Create-Learning-Team Building to develop a one day (six hour) team building program for staff members. The organization consists of 50 team members – all with various responsibilities within the organization.
The Program will include use of
DiSC Team and Individual Dimensions Profiles
Approach
Overlapping hands-on initiatives with lecture and workbook b…
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Added by michaelcardus on December 21, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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DiSC Team Building Program
......to view a sample DiSC 2.0
......to view a sample DiSC 2.0 Team Building Agenda
• Provides team members with practical information about their personal styles and behaviors to more effectively interact with other team members and customers.
• Effective for all levels of the organization (can be cate…
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Added by michaelcardus on December 10, 2008 at 5:38am —
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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. By acting as a victim you start to keep score, a common response of a team member who keeps score is "I always have to load the paper in the copier, I am NOT going to do load the paper anymore, this place cannot run without me!" Once your team member…
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Added by michaelcardus on December 5, 2008 at 12:55pm —
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Leading a team discussion with a group of corporate adults within the workforce we (
Create-Learning) serve your team to develop a culture where team members speak their mind - while avoiding the group think mentality. By avoiding group think team members feel empowered to speak their opinions, leading to team member commitment. Creating trust and comfort that what is expressed and said about the team is for the greater development of the existing team and…
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Added by michaelcardus on November 17, 2008 at 6:04pm —
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