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Top : Teams and Team Building:
There much ado about teams in work and leisure, and for some fairly good reasons. We live in a society where we are all to some degree mutually inter-dependent. The better we work together, the better each individual is (or is that false?)
Interesting take on the 2006 Walmart pull out from Germany suggests its failure there was a result of cultural differences which caused some of Walmart's internal policies to be bad fits. Suggests their team building exercises just did not fit. Hits: 748 )
There have been some suggestions that team building efforts, by and large, fail, and do not justify the expenditure and effort. This article takes a look at how team building can work. Hits: 659 )
An account of an employees first experience with the various store rituals and exercises undertaken at a Walmart store. Hits: 634 )
Good discussion of developing a training seminar to help people communicate bad news more effectively. Hits: 626 )
A dyad exercise suggested by Jerry Noloboff that encourages self-disclosure and the building of a group field Hits: 623 )
Many clients are finding that "cross-functional" working issues are impacting more and more upon their business. Things in the corporate world are moving faster (communications, globalisation and technology reduce decision-making cycles and turn-around, as we know). Hits: 597 )
Why are effective teams so important in challenging times? Because history invariably proves that organizations who husband their teams well in challenging times, are those who will still be standing at the end of those times. The Chinese use two distinct brush strokes for the word crisis, one stands for danger and the other for opportunity. Well prepared, cohesive and effective teams can avoid the former and capitalise on the latter in a time of crisis. Focusing on the basic fundamentals of teamwork and hard work can ensure that when the going gets tough, the tough can really get going Hits: 618 )
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