Category: Enhance Leadership Skills
Ready to enhance your leadership skills? Read these blogs to learn leadership best practices to become the person your employees admire most. You’ll discover how to best support your teammates, help your company advance, and become a role model for all employees.
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6 Simple Ways Companies Can Make their Employees Happy
Recognize, motivate and make your employees HAPPY! Happy employees are the most productive. We’ve heard them say this a thousand times already. In any business structure, happiness is fundamental in maintaining a smooth flowing operation. Happiness should be the core of your company culture. Put your employees’ interest first, and you’ll be surprised how they will take care of you and the business.
Creative Ideas to Improve Company Culture
Any business knows that a strong team is needed for true success and measurable growth.
Follow Your Dreams & Find Inspirational Leadership
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes from history offer immeasurable inspirational leadership advice. Great leaders and activists from history highlight what our country and world has been through and remind us how we can change it.
6 Ways Successful Teams are Built to Last
There’s no question that it takes great leadership skills to build strong teams! A strong team needs an even stronger leader who isn’t afraid to take on many difficult challenges. As a leader, your job is to mold your team into an efficient group of people who can work well together and work well in their individual roles. You must possess people skills because it’s all about knowing just exactly who you’re working with. It’s important to know what makes people tick and how you can help them to achieve company goals. These six steps will help you get you the keys to keys to team success the right path to becoming an esteemed, strong and successful team leader!
What Is Employee Engagement?
Employee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to the organization and its goals. Engaged employees care about their work, they use discretionary effort to accomplish work as a team and their performance is of higher quality.
4 Reasons Good Leaders Encourage Creativity
Encouraging creativity is important. The prevailing opinion is that creativity in the workplace is a good thing. Most experts will agree on this. However, sometimes it does feel a little impractical. When faced with a huge list of repetitive daily tasks for yourself and your team to accomplish, it can be hard to remember why encouraging creativity is important.
Tips To Re-define Your Company Culture
TeamBonding is re-defining the world of company culture. We know that the key to company growth and positive company organizational culture is to invest in your team through team building. In our 25+ years of experience, it’s not surprising that it’s in our nature, which is ultimately what has defined our success. The Founder, David Goldstein has been actively building his team for years, so it’s no secret he’s got the best team! Not only does David plan activities for his team to enjoy, but he also began a whole engagement committee to toss around ideas for his team to do… and the sky is the limit.
A Great Vision is a Great Leader
“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.”- Henry Kissinger In order to lead, sometimes it is necessary to inspire. Leaders invoke the passion and drive into their team in order for hard work to be done. Team bonding quotes have the ability to encourage, but they also allow us to remember the great leaders of the past.
The Team Behind The Team
Team building applies to any field, even a football field. Following my favorite sports teams is my number one hobby! It’s fascinating to see how the most intense sports teams perform; the way they communicate, work together and understand each other. As fans, we care about the win! However, we have no idea what effort goes on behind the scenes. I realize that to have such a fierce demeanor as a team, it takes some work, teamwork. For players to cooperate, commit, and triumph, they first establish a fundamental core with team building.
5 Team Building Best Practices Every Organization Should Implement
Team building: It is a very common term that is often discussed in many organizations today as a means of trying to get employees to accomplish common goals. Although the term itself may have developed a more negative meaning over recent years, Forbes Magazine says, “Team building is the most important investment you can make for your people. It builds trust, mitigates conflict, encourages communication, and increases collaboration.” In order for this to happen, you have to be innovative when coming up with team building activities. Try to think past the often used group picnic idea, and implement team building practices that will allow employees and coworkers to use their strengths to bring better, long-term value to your business as a whole. We recommend implementing these 5 team building best practices at the workplace:
5 Disney Movie Clips That Showcase Leadership Qualities
If you stop and think about it, Disney movies actually teach valuable lessons about the power of encouragement, teamwork and developing leadership skills.
Team Building Tip: Surprise me! But really, no.
It may seem like a good idea to surprise your team with a team building exercise, but this is generally a no-no. It is much easier to encourage participation, have fun, and enjoy an event when participants are not surprised. That being said, don’t tell them everything about the event, because it will ruin the fun.
5 Ways to Support Your Team During a Natural Disaster
With Hurricane Florence on the horizon, we’ve outlined 5 steps to keep your employees safe and supported during a natural disaster. In the wake of a crisis, your staff is left dealing with the physical and emotional aftermath into the future. The way you and your team prepare and react to the crisis will have a profound impact on all facets of your business.
Get Out of Your Own Way | Write Your Success Story
Be the Best Version of You that You Always Dreamed to Be. Fear—an all-too-familiar emotion that tends to visit people during their most critically important moments. It triggers a response in people that is commonly known as a “fight or flight” response whether to stay and confront the situation or to leave the situation due to feeling unsafe. Most people can identify with the latter. This is due to a complex process that occurs in the brain. Within the temporal lobes of the brain, there exists the amygdala, which serves as the key brain element that controls the reception and processing of negative emotions.
What Separates a Boss from Being a Leader
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” – Thomas Aquinas
5 Ways Fear is Affecting You as a Leader
Whether you just got a promotion or you were born to be in charge, leadership is daunting and the fears that come with it are a natural reaction. Will I be good enough? Will people respect me? What if I make a big mistake?
Where Employers are Going Wrong When It Comes to Team Management
Teams can make or break an establishment. A coordinated team that is being managed effectively can cause profits to skyrocket and customers to pledge their loyalty. An under-managed team, however, can cause dismal and disastrous things to occur.
Keys to a Successful Leadership Development Program
Employees are on the frontlines of your company. An understanding of what their wants and needs will help foster their growth into stronger assets for your organization. According to Jeff Fermin, an entrepreneur and a contributor to Huffington Post, 83% of employees feel that they don’t have an engaging employment brand.
Avoid Team Building Strategies that Don’t Work
CNBC has 11 great tips to help you make sure that your team building activities don’t have the unintended consequence of pulling your team of employees apart.
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