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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Xebia

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Indicators for MLOps Capability Implementing MLOps principles is not just a technical exercise. Introducing new tools without having the right skills and practices in place will not improve the team’s performance. Metrics for ML and MLOps Teams ML teams and MLOps teams have their own focus and their own metrics.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 24, 2011

It’s a great communications training AND a team building exercise, plus, it cleans out your in-box – at least for one day. Have a “I Wanna Hear Real Voices&# Day – Declare any e-mail (or texting, or anything else electronic) “off-limits&# for one day.

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Perficient

MARCH 15, 2025

It was a simple yet important exercise that put the Christmas spirit into action. The environment was filled with energy as we hosted a series of interactive games and team-building activities. Another enjoyable aspect of our celebration was decorating the office Christmas tree. Click to view slideshow.

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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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CO2 Business Leadership

JANUARY 16, 2024

This approach, highlighted in a study by the Harvard Business Review, demonstrates that when leaders are open, team members feel safer to express their ideas and concerns. Developing Empathy Through Team Building Activities Team building activities that focus on empathy and understanding are crucial.

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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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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2016

The other “tool” that helps stay productive: exercise–preferably a good hike in nature. Becky Robinson of Weaving Influence shares “My team uses Basecamp for every project, and using Basecamp helps us stay focused to deliver what we’ve promised. It is an extension of his brain! Follow David. Joseph B.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Take the team off site. This is not an IT team building exercise. Rather it is a chance for your team to take a break and spend time together not working. You need to pull your team out of their work environment and have them focus on doing something else for a while. Get them out of the office.

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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

MARCH 30, 2013

Its integrated framework of the elements of management effectiveness provides users easy access to quotes, video clips, anecdotes, and exercises on any element of management. Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite: “Good is the enemy of Great.” –Jim Collins. Don’t confuse motion with progress.” –Peter Drucker.

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QAspire

JULY 31, 2013

Not having clear objective of coaching exercise OR not aligning the coaching goals with business objectives. - – - – -. An organizational culture that thwarts new ideas will seldom succeed in building a coaching culture. - – - – -. . - – - – -. The coach will appear when the student is ready !

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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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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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Lead on Purpose

MAY 31, 2010

This sort of exercise I’ve been doing for years and it really works. Reply Michael Ray Hopkin , on June 19, 2010 at 10:17 pm said: Roger, glad to hear your enjoyed this post. Thank you for commenting. Michael Reply Leo Salazar , on June 30, 2010 at 2:55 pm said: Indeed, very good suggestions. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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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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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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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2016

One of the biggest challenges for leaders is to create an ecosystem where people exercise their discretion (tapping into intrinsic motivations). I think of the CEO again who was, through his aggressive show of strength, able to generate dispassionate compliance to his decisions. Trust is a good place to start.

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Loom Systems

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Baking a “post-mortem” or debriefing into the process is a great way to encourage team members to make constant improvements, however, not all “post-mortems” are created equal. When a debriefing isn’t well facilitated, it could turn into a finger-pointing exercise that instills fear and erodes trust within the organization.

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