Why Creating a Team Culture is Like Baking a Cake
Creating a team is like making a cake. Each ingredient serves a purpose. Without an ingredient, the cake changes. If an ingredient is off, the entire cake can be distasteful or the other ingredients have to mask the bad taste of the one. When all the ingredients are fresh, the cake tastes good, feeds many and is cause for celebration.
Each ingredient serves a purpose. Each ingredient has a role and function to play in a team. Knowing your role in the team comes from the hiring process, the job description, how you are measured, your supervisor, and primarily how you choose to contribute to the team. Consider a sales person who contributes to the team yet does not contribute sales. This is similar to a cake without flour. The ingredient withholds its role and provides no added benefit to the team
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 emerge.
In the midst of organizational change and restructuring, these pocket cultures may collide, and the fallout, can be disastrous or at the very least disheartening. Keep issues related to blending team cultures a top priority and take these steps to ensure a smooth transition.
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 planning your next team building activity.
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 and energy trying to get them excited about delivering at a high level. It’s just not working. So, what do you do?