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Team Building Activities Increase Productivity and Reduce Employee Stress

Employee stress in the workplace can be a productivity killer, and it reduces employee enjoyment as well. As a leader in the workplace, you benefit from working toward creating a productive environment for your employees. Using team building activities to reduce employee stress just might be the ticket to creating a unified workplace. Workplace stress […]

Meetings Are A Team Building Activity CEOs Shouldn’t Ignore

Are team meetings a waste of time? To some they are if nothing is accomplished. While team meetings are an important team building activity, all too often they are mismanaged resulting in time and productivity losses. It doesn’t have to be that way.  However, if team meetings are not improved from the top down, accountability […]

How to Align and Adapt Culture During Change

Guest post by Emma Murphy During change there is often an element of culture change required to achieve the desired outcomes, for example you may need to embed new behaviours and ways of working in order to ensure the change is successful. In this article we will consider how to get started with planning your […]

Team Building Activities Reduce Workplace Incivility

Tempers flare when a weekly sales quota doesn’t get met…. An employee is told to comprise their standards – maybe fudge some numbers or overlook a quality control issue….. A manager takes credit for an employee’s hard work… All instances of workplace incivility? Absolutely! According to the eighth National Business Ethics Survey (NBES), 41 percent […]

Create a Positive Working Environment with Leadership Training Games

While you cannot always have a positive working environment, you will find that the more positive you are within your organization, the more positive and productive your employees will be. And by creating a positive work environment, you will also enjoy a higher employee retention rate. One way to create a positive working environment is […]

Leveraging Organizational Culture for Success

Guest post by Rob Peters Click To Download The Info-graphic Doc21  A 2013 Booz & Company study, Culture’s Role in Enabling Organizational Change by DeAnne Aguirre, Rutger von Post, and Micah Alpern analyzes the results of a survey of 2,200 executives, managers, and employees from a broad range of companies across the world.  This research sheds light on current perceptions […]

4 Team Building Ideas For Improving Team Interdependence

When you are looking for team building ideas for improving team interdependence, imagine stumbling across this conversation: “Hey Bob, I’m thinking of starting a baseball team.” “Great! I know a few guys who are really good and would love to play.” “Nope. I am playing all positions – catcher, pitcher, short stop, outfield….you name it!” […]

Can Team Building Activities Boost Employee Financial Security and Satisfaction?

I’m always on the lookout for companies that “get it.” These are the companies with C-Suite executives and leaders that realize it takes a village to create one cohesive organizational culture. Let me explain. These thought leaders and innovators don’t toot their own horn. They are proactive in corporate team building to improve employee satisfaction […]

TIGERS Success Series 2013 Employee Engagement Blog Recap

Here is the 3rd part of a 5 part series recapping the blogs and articles posted in 2013. The Employee Engagement blog recap is loaded with great information on both employee engagement and disengagement in the workplace.  But just what is employee engagement? By most definitions it is an employee’s level of involvement, emotional commitment, […]