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How to Create a Supportive Environment for Your Team

As leaders, it’s important to monitor not only our team’s progress but our own. Where do you stand as a leader? Do you know your leadership style or the type of environment you are cultivating? To best lead your team, it’s important to ask yourself these questions. . In an employee market, team members expect […]

What To Do When Your Team Building Efforts Aren’t Making a Difference

Everyone loves a team player. It’s a buzzword thrown around by recruitment and it’s a term resumes and interviews can’t do without. Couple this with the top performing desired skills on resumes according to NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) team problem solving and team skills are rated one and two as the most […]

How Workforce Behavior Assessment and Training Save You Money

You suspect employee turnover is due to poor workforce behavior. Now what? The good news is that workforce behavior lies at the root cause of many “problems” that reduce your bottom line.  A strategic way to improve workforce behavior is through measurement and training. Why measuring workforce behavior matters. In 1987, I asked a question. […]

How Often Does Deploying Corporate Strategy Fail?

How often does deploying corporate strategy fizzle right out of the gate? Take a guess. We were shocked considering that failing to implement corporate strategy means that an organization’s ability to achieve important goals also fails. And, this failure directly lines up with executing important workforce development plans and employee training that link directly to […]

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 […]

Reduce Workplace Conflict to Improve Productivity

Experienced educators often advise first year teachers not to crack a smile until after Christmas vacation. Obviously, the intent is to give students the impression that these teachers are tough, strong disciplinarians as opposed to being nice which could be interpreted as being a pushover. The extent to which this advice works varies widely depending […]

Seven Tips to Build Business Success through Team Work and Employee Friendly Work Cultures

Business success – how do you define it? Profits, bottom lines, market share, company size? Maybe not. According to employees in the Denver area – it’s all about an employee friendly work culture. Companies that encourage teamwork and employee-friendly work cultures see greater productivity and employee loyalty. The Denver Post recently published the results of […]

2013 is the year of the business consultant, but will organizations appreciate their worth?

Due to the current economic climate, this could very well be a banner year for independent business team consultants, facilitators, and team building coaches. Why? During the Great Recession, organizations downsized, merged, slashed budgets, and saw “customary business practices and policies” fly out the window. This, along with underdeveloped strategic planning on the part of […]

Thriving in the Wake of the Great Recession: Part 2 – A Way Through

This is the 2nd part of a 3 part blog series on where we take a hard look at organizational survival rates after historic recessions. In last week’s blog, I reported some stark statistics revealed by the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Over the last 3 recessions, approximately 80% of companies had not regained their prerecession […]