Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2015

I thought of the exercise I’d just read about in Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a Team Field Guide. I’ve got another exercise I’ve been looking to try, but I’ve never done it before and it could be heavier than you’re ready for. “Ah, you’ve done that one before, huh?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

3 key secrets to building extraordinary teams. Building a SaaS company from the ground up is never easy. Can we build the solution for the problem? If this sounds like a simple, straightforward exercise, it’s because it is. More posts by this contributor. Video and messaging enable remote work.

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Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2024

Recently, our organisation went to Wonderla Amusement Park for a unique team-building experience and had a fantastic roller coaster experience. Every activity, from trust falls to cooperative challenges, was designed to promote togetherness, communication, and trust among our team members.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 5, 2017

I’ve recently had several experiences that required me to get out of my comfort zone. The subject of courage has becoming particularly important and meaningful to me in recent weeks and months. Different situations in my consulting work and with … Continue reading →

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Initiative: Improve the R&D team’s cultural competence and decision-making to guarantee that the team can better leverage existing team diversity and capitalize on varied ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 9, 2013

The exercise provides perspective your topics of choice and how they hang [.] Callings leadership books Questions leadership leadership poetry reflective practice spine poems team building team building activities' The idea, take a quick look at your shelf, and use the spines to create a poem.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2020

In theory, organizing team building activities is a perfect way to get your team to get to know each other outside the office and form a stronger bond within the office as a result. Here’s a list of fun team building exercises everyone can participate in and enjoy. Scavenger Hunt. Purpose : Teamwork.

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Perficient

APRIL 2, 2024

We strengthened our organisation’s sense of cohesion and unity while also celebrating the spirit of Sankranti by fusing traditional celebrations with team-building exercises.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Mostly you don’t need to align, most folks taking part are superfluous and as accidental team-building exercises they are incredibly expensive in terms of human-hours. I immensely prefer the final option. Work meetings are often a waste of time. I am not into wasting time.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

They also have a well-defined means for collaborating with agile development teams and can work with them to deliver a roadmap of improvements tied to technical debt remediations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Even if your employees have worked alongside one another for quite some time there is still value to be found in organising a team building event. There is an endless array of potential team building activities which have proven to be effective training and motivational tools. Treasure Hunt. Graffiti Workshop.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Still, our team-building exercises included cooking classes, go-kart races and trips to local driving ranges. When my company’s softball team played against Yahoo! One black-tie work party I attended caused a run on several area tuxedo rental shops.

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Martin Fowler

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I would avoid any artificial “team building” exercises, if only because of how much I hate them. So we should set a full day of work, focusing on those tasks that benefit from the low-latency communication that comes from being together.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2022

“We have so much opportunity here that there’s more than one solution where we can apply their talent,” he says, noting that there would be plenty of work building analytics and insight tools around whichever forecasting engine was chosen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Please contact me for a free consultation on how we can build something just right. As a holiday gift to you, I’m sharing some easy exercises you can use with your team in the new year (see sidebar). P.S. If you need an endorsement to get you inspired, here’s Santa’s. Another Holiday Gift.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, the deployment of chatbots using LLMs should be more than an exercise in reducing human labor,” he says. “It CTOs are responsible for leading and managing technology teams,” Kowsari says. Strong leadership and team-building skills are vital. At the same time, CTOs must be strong leaders.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In theory, organizing team building activities is a perfect way to get your team to get to know each other outside the office and form a stronger bond within the office as a result. Here’s a list of fun team building exercises everyone can participate in and enjoy. Scavenger Hunt. Purpose : Teamwork.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

If you want to take this on as a team challenge, our BECOME team-building exercise is a great way to encourage and facilitate deeper conversations. . Sometimes it’s scary to let people see who you really are at work. And yet, people trust people they know at a human level. . Address a performance issue.

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QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2016

I once worked in a team that followed a well established process of doing structured retrospectives after every major product release. This worked well and as a result these reflective exercises, team performance and quality of work improved. In pursuit of doing more frequent releases, teams stopped doing retrospectives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation. While effective teams build on one another’s ideas and everyone contributes selflessly, this requires an atmosphere of trust and respect.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And through that team-building exercise, I found an innovation partner to help me disrupt this industry. I didn’t know anything about cooking when I started, but you find the subject matter experts — people who can identify problems, talent, and innovation in the industry. When is innovation ready for prime time?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Through storytelling, conversation, and a few exercises, Mark helped the audience learn the basics to the science of team building using scientific principles to have more fun, improve, and be successful – in this case, in Escape Rooms, but more broadly, with teams in general.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 5, 2014

Here are the main points we cover during our chat: Liane’s passion for effective team building, and her personal experience with Toxic Teams. The definition of a Toxic Team, and the most common types. The keys to “curing” a Toxic Team. Why team building exercises aren’t the answer.

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Exadel

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Even if it’s logistically difficult due to time zones, social connection still matters, especially in remote teams. That’s why team building activities are crucial: the team needs to find common interests in order to work together. Choose the right time for a team-building activities meeting.

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Invid Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Foster a Virtual Team Culture To unite distant workers, a strong sense of team spirit must be fostered. Using virtual team-building exercises promotes cooperation and teamwork. Create online classes, team competitions, or virtual happy hours to foster a more casual and social workplace environment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 9, 2020

Run Team-Building Exercises. Team-building is another classic route to better collaboration. Every aspect of these activities and exercises is intended to bolster relationships and communication. They bring people together around common goals and foster team-work in the process.

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The Daily WTF

JUNE 21, 2020

The annual team-building exercise,” Miranda said, using a string of profanity for punctuation. He hoped the mandatory team building exercise was the worst experience of Miranda’s life, as he sent her a quick, “WTF?” Geeze, what mandatory meeting is more important than that?”. email message.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

You may have a desired outcome when you are building software, but it’s unlikely that it’s as singular as chess. Software is rarely done; features get added and bugs are fixed; it’s an ongoing exercise. Recently I was asked to help a team build something that could help people get information on health issues related to COVID-19.

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scruminc

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Loaded with thoughtful questions intended to spark meaningful conversations, we can’t help but think that during normal times this game will continue to bring team members together. Great for virtual team building exercises. Image credit from Walmart. Let’s Parking Lot That’ Button.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 21, 2023

Team building and trust exercises have their place. The technology that makes remote work possible must be secured in new ways, requiring a new and modern approach to cybersecurity. While trust among coworkers is vital, effective cybersecurity requires a healthy degree of suspicion.

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CloudSphere

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Celebrating Progress and Achievements By acknowledging milestones and accomplishments together as a team, we pioneer solutions more effectively. Recognizing and applauding our achievements also helps us foster a profound sense of satisfaction and elation in our daily work.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned executive or an emerging leader, this podcast provides actionable strategies for personal and professional development, team building, and inspiring others, all rooted in Maxwell’s proven leadership philosophies.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

If you have a team, it’s important that they are able to work together – try some team building exercises such as lunches and other fun activities to ensure that there is a level of trust and respect between the various members of your team. You won’t know until you ask. Avoid micromanaging.

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Honeycomb

OCTOBER 26, 2021

And if no one reads async stand-ups, the whole thing becomes an exercise in futility. The point of a stand-up is to share context, identify issues, offer help and input, and generally collaborate on the team’s work in a high throughput, in a (dare I even say) synchronous way. It’s expected!

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 20, 2013

As a leader it is your job to make this a healthy exercise instead of becoming negative, but sometimes getting something off our chest just feels good. Leadership Team Building decisions motivation positivity team building' Of course not! Instead, let them know it’s okay to speak up and voice their complaints.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Yes, I know; I’m not the first person to remind you that exercise is important and that you don’t do it enough. There are a host of physiological benefits to exercise that can actually improve productivity. Building Your Brain. Bush and Barak Obama are daily exercisers. Less Time Means More Time.

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