Networking! The phrase itself is self-explanatory. Increase the size of your “net” and you increase the number of “Fish” clients. By working. The harder you work, the bigger your net. After all, more fish means more food. Networking can and should be one of the most powerful sales tolls for any business, but it’s often […]
Whether you are in L&D, OD or other areas of HR, at some point or another you will have been asked to provide some form of “team-building” activity by a department within your organization… a request to deliver some form of exercise or event to inject some motivation, energy or sense of fun into what […]
Mankind was slowly, but surely, moving towards certain evolutions in our way of life. Now, post pandemic, we are hurtling towards it. This evolution is transformative and impacts virtually every sphere of our lives. What was slowly creeping up on us, is now part of our daily lives. Digital transformation is now being led by […]
Many years ago, I was sitting at my desk when I received a strange email from my supervisor, it was merely one question! He said, “Did we meet ROI?” My instant reply then was “What do you mean? We haven’t met any ROI so far…” I will leave it to your imagination to find out […]
After an exhilarating outdoor teambuilding training, there’s nothing more gratifying than overly delighted delegates, satisfied clients and a pleased training provider. But there’s more to outdoor teambuilding training than fun and fulfillment. Without careful design and delivery of outdoor teambuilding, its benefits may be wasted and its detriments may surface. To prevent that, we need […]
If the requests that I receive for ‘’Team Building’’ are anything to go by, team building is definitely the buzz word of the era for L&D. My first question is always: ‘’What are the issues/Challenges? What are you hoping to achieve? ‘’Answers vary, but mostly the answer alludes to ‘’the team are not getting on/are […]
In many global companies, particularly those based in developed markets, it’s found that half of senior leaders will be concluding their careers within the next few years, and half of them don’t have a successor ready or capable to take over. As Boris Groysberg (a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behaviour unit at […]
Food for thought … • 81% of the Fortune 500 companies are building at least partially team-based organizations • More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use some formal work teams as part of their operations So, what is a ‘Team’? A Team is not just a group of people for administrative convenience. A […]
You usually measure a return on investment (ROI) in dollars or Dirhams, not how many times you walked to the bank. Why, then, do people still insist on counting how many people turned up for a workshop (the traditional ‘bums on seats’ number) and then offering that number as a measure of the value added […]
Any successful organization relies on the performance of its employees. During the team building process, the evidence of its effectiveness will be measured in the performance phase. Therefore a leader must be conscious of what constitutes an effective team and how to maintain this. Key to any task, whether individual or collective, is the clear […]
