Creating Incentives For Teamwork
Situation: You need your team to come together quickly.
Questions to Ask of Yourself and Others To better understand how to create incentives for teamwork, consider asking yourself the following questions:
Consider asking your HR person, trusted colleague, or the team member the same questions.
Task Description
Build a team; develop teamwork. Encourage individual participants to work with others as a team, giving the team the authority to act within their level of responsibility. Facilitate communication between individuals and foster an attitude of cooperation. Ensure that team members have a clear understanding of their own tasks, the tasks assigned to other team members, and the relationships between the two. Let the team balance individual empowerment and group collaboration. Allow individuals to control their own style of work, while encouraging team members to develop methods of coordination.
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How Should You Tell Your Story?
Situation: A "story" would really help your cause, but you're not quite sure how to make it work.
First establish a purpose... Why are you telling a story? (a few possibilities)
Choosing a story to tell
Is this your story?
Is this their story?
Is this story right for now?
Will anyone care or remember it?
I think that the points above are critical when picking a story to tell and thinking it through. If you would like to go a bit deeper - tuning your story and rating your delivery of it, check out our new Project Management Story Telling Checklist. Happy story-telling! |
Teambuilding Without Training Wheels
Categories:
Team Building
Categories: Team Building
Situation: You're Hard Up For Team Building Options![]() Other Options I tend to think weird=memorable. I'm still working on getting everyone to do the group Trapeze Lessons. We've done Dave and Busters, Ice Skating, etc. - but I just can't bring myself to do the ropes course thing. Our crew is a little more outspoken , dynamic, and opinionated than most. So we just try to get together and have a good time once in a while. |
Color Me Funny...
![]() I'm not typically an email "forwarder", but someone really put some time and thought into this Executive Coloring Book. My friend Laurie sent it to me a couple of months ago and everyone I've shown it to loves it. |
Turn the Company Picnic into a Music Video...
Situation: You Need To Turn a Stack of Meeting Pics into Something Cool...![]() |