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3
Apr

Managing Your Time While Working Remotely

Tell me if this scenario sounds familiar. You’ve started your “work from home” plan. You’ve set yourself up in a corner of your home, home-brewed coffee in hand, with emails to write, projects to complete, and meetings to attend. Then, you reach for your phone, and hit “refresh” one last time… And two hours, a …

1
Apr

Managing Styles While Working Remotely

Whether we are social distancing on our couches or conducting 500-person offsites, we all operate with different behavioral styles. No two people are alike, but individuals typically fall into one of four different styles – based on whether we have a tendency to “speak first” or “think first” and whether we are more “task oriented” …

18
Apr

Best Team Building and Relationship Building Activities

Our last post, Are We Really Looking for Team Building?, reflected on the differences between team building and relationship building. By popular demand, we’ve decided to break down some of our activities, to give you a cheat sheet on which ones fit where. Best Team Building Activities: High Performance Teams Project Pipeline Bridge Build Rocket …

18
Apr

Are we really looking for team building?

Many clients contact us asking for team building, but are really looking for something a little bit different. While the term “team building” has become a part of our business fabric, like many other 21st-century buzz words, it is often overused, or misused. For us, the key differentiator is whether a group is looking for …

18
Apr

Creating the Perfect Needs Assessment

Sometimes, a client calls and asks for a specific activity, because they know exactly what they want. They’ve already committed based on their time frame, space, and the group’s needs, and we can begin the process of setting up their team building activity. However, more often than not, clients are unsure of what activity is …

18
Apr

Giving Back

People often ask us why we chose to create a donation program. After all, we already offer charitable activities, like our bike build and school donation. For us, setting it up was a no-brainer, but defining our “why” is a bit trickier. We both began our careers in the non-profit arena, decades ago, where we …