Why Creating a Team Culture is Like Baking a Cake
Creating a team is like making a cake. Each ingredient serves a purpose. Each ingredient has a role and function to play in a team. Without an ingredient, the cake changes. If an ingredient is off, the entire cake can be distasteful or the other ingredients have to...
12 Keys To Getting Results When Merging Teams
A company’s culture is the shared values, beliefs and behaviors that determine how people do things in an organization. A team’s culture, while aligned with the larger organization culture, can often look very different across the organization, and pocket cultures may...
Corporate Team Building Activities: 4 Things To Watch Out For
Corporate team building activities effectively boost employee engagement and productivity when organizations invest in these important corporate events. Here are 4 things to consider when scheduling your next team building activity. 1. Frequency of corporate team...
3 Steps to Employee Engagement and Aligning Your Team
You want the same thing your team wants. Perhaps for different reasons, yet both you and your team want to get aligned and achieve results. What if the traditional approach of the leader setting the goals and creating the plan is what stands in the way of truly aligning your team?
Top 10 Foods to Help Your Team Focus & Engage
High-performance engines require high-performance fuel to produce their world-class output. You and your team are no different— check out these foods to give your neurons some rocket fuel, and shoot for the stars.
Developing an Engagement Culture
Peter Drucker once said that Culture eats Strategy for breakfast. Skeptical? Isn’t it an effective strategy that gets business results? Intuitive yes…realistic…no. Culture drives the “why” behind the “what”. An engagement culture is what inspires your team members to...
Onboarding Employees – 5 Top Tips
Onboarding employees is about making the right first impression. We spend so much time trying to find the right employee and once we get them in the door, we don’t spend the time to ensure they are successful. It’s called shooting yourself in the foot. And it is...
How To Jump-Start Your Culture Transformation
You’re not seeing business results where they need to be, whether it is delivering outstanding guest service, patient-centred care, or sales. Your team members are doing “their job”, but not really looking or thinking forward. You find yourself spending too much time...