Team Building Archive

  • There is No “I” in Team but There is in “Win”

    There is No “I” in Team but There is in “Win”

    "There is no I in Team" Michael Jordan was reminded by Chicago Bulls assistant coach Tex Winters after Jordan scored a straight 20 points. Jordan returned Winter's comment with "There's 'I' in 'win.'" Some might find Jordan's quip as a bit of an arrogance but you know what I think? I think he is right. If you want to have a winning team, you have to mind the "I's" within the team.

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  • Ropes Course Team Building

    Ropes Course Team Building

    Objectives | Outline “It’s not the team with the best players that win the game, it the players with the best team”. This holds true not only in sports but more so in the cut-throat competition of business. Companies must race against each other for the attention of customers. And in order to meet customer expectations, [...]

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  • Paint-Ball Team Building Workshop

    Paint-Ball Team Building Workshop

    Objectives | Outline A strong team believes that the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. Winners do not sit on their laurels lest they fall behind in the game. They also understand that they are aiming at moving targets and that the environment or the playing field and even the [...]

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  • Teamwork Anemia

    Teamwork Anemia

    (Image from www.thegoldguys.blogspot.com/ ) By Edwin Ebreo See if this scenario looks familiar: The CEO calls for a regular Management Committee meeting. The committee members prepare their own updates to be presented to the group. The head of IT, HR, Finance, Operations, Engineering, Marketing and Sales and others deliver their presentations one after the other. The CEO throws [...]

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  • Do You Have Teamwork? Your Meetings Say It All

    Do You Have Teamwork? Your Meetings Say It All

    (Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/clagnut/252185030/sizes/m/#cc_license) By: Edwin Ebreo Do you have teamwork? After 14 years of studying teams and teamwork, I’m more inclined to guess that you don’t have teamwork. I’ll be happy to be wrong, but the chances of me being right is higher than the other way around. How do you know if you have it or [...]

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  • Training is Not Just an Event

    Training is Not Just an Event

    How do you make sure that training is applied and investment are returned? Stop treating training as if it is just an event. Many Training Managers set their goals at holding training event and stop there. This post is about going beyond managing the event.

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  • Strategic Training and Development Planning

    Strategic Training and Development Planning

    (Image from Flickr) By: Edwin Ebreo Note: You can download a free strategic training and development plan template at the end of this post. Most training plans I’ve seen are products of training needs surveys; hence most of them are basically lists of training programs to be run one after another. What is wrong with that picture? [...]

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  • Training

    Training

    "We don't just offer training, we offer solutions."

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