Team Building West Blog

Work Groups Vs Teams true, blue teams.

Vision it appeals to our values, our hope and our dreams. Without it, teams don't know the "why's" of their business their sense of purpose. Leadership must instill this.

Team development goes beyond the fun. What do you do when you come back from the offsight and have to work together again for ROI? Turn Insights into Applications!

Why conflict is so good and not so good for you, and how help is perceived as threatening.

The feature film, Eight Below, presented by Walt Disney is a wonderful example of devotion, loyalty, and teamwork.

We are taught how to sell; to negotiate and read a spreadsheet but in all our training, we are not taught to listen. Surely, you might say, listening is something we do instinctively and yes we do but do we actually hear? Are we listening properly?

The team with the "best" players will not always provide the best team results. This holds true for teams in organizations as in sports. The question is what drives a winning team? That question has triggered many investigations with interesting results you can benefit from implementing them.

How can we tune ourselves to be top performers in the next decade We must start with the fundamentals, the rudiments. Any organization, just as in a jazz group, is only as good as its weakest player. As individual skills are raised, so is the performance of the organizational unit.

A discussion of the merits of team building options that are structured to encourage teams to work together rather than the more common type in which they compete against one another.

A framework for positioning your company to appeal to, and retain, the top people your business needs to flourish.