By Solomon Masala | Team Building
We’ll get straight to the answer: don’t do team building! Typical team building usually ends up being morale boosting, or camaraderie building: games played with team mates for fun. Fun is good, so is morale and camaraderie, but in the long run, they are not hard skills to get you to an extraordinary team. Extraordinary teams […]
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By Solomon Masala | Team Building
It can seem a lot easier to be the nice, quiet, or funny person at work (or in life). Nevertheless, when it comes to “difficult conversations” that eventually must happen at the office (or in life!), you cant’ hie behind nice. Being the person who jumps right in is part of developing and honing leadership skills. Someone […]
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By Solomon Masala | Team Building
Even though you say you want to change…you don’t really want to. Me too. I’ve been called out. I make these kinds of declarations all the time – we all do! Things aren’t working – I know I need to change something and heck, I might even know what the change needs to be… Have that tough conversation…be […]
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By Solomon Masala | Team Building
Anywhere you go, there is potentially a “tough crowd” waiting. Not the old school “tough crowd” of angry high school bullies trying to steal lunch money, but the older, more refined bully-attitude of the world: the skeptics. There’s cynicism in our lives, whether we like it or not. People have gotten jaded – and sometimes love being […]
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By Solomon Masala | Team Building
Some of the biggest financial hits to a business can result from employee turnover. Corporations spend tens of thousands of dollars training a new team member, and mitigating the motivation drop and ripple of fear in the team as they wonder if they are next to leave – or why their co-worker ran off. The struggle is real; […]
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