KEEP YOUR OFFICE CULTURE STRONG. CONNECTION IS THE KEY! Keep Your Office Culture Strong. CONNECTION is the Key! Want to Improve Your Organizational Culture? Imaginative Ways to Connect! By Jim Grout Flashback 13 weeks ago, I was putting the finishing touches on a blog that started like this… “Schools succeed, nonprofits thrive, sports teams win, […]
Category: Team Development
A Force to Be Reckoned With: The Helium Hoop
A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: THE HELIUM HOOP A Force to Be Reckoned With: The Helium Hoop What’s Worse Than Unhealthy Conflict? Let the Helium Hoop Decide. By Tom Miller, Phil Brown & Rich Keegan Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, suggests unhealthy politeness is toxic to the development of effective teams. […]
5 Tips to Build Team Performance
5 TIPS TO BUILD TEAM PERFORMANCE 5 Tips to Build Team Performance Improve Your Team’s Performance with These High “5” Tips By Jim Grout A long time ago, I learned that even an experiential educator can’t experience everything. That may seem obvious, but in my world of adventure learning, experience is the key to everything […]
Essentials of Corporate Culture
ESSENTIALS OF CORPORATE CULTURE The 3 Essential Pillars of Corporate Culture By Jim Grout Corporate observer Simon Sinek’s TED talks—How Great Leaders Inspire Action and Why Good Leaders Make You feel Safe—provide interesting insights into the role leaders play in shaping and maintaining a positive and effective corporate culture. As Sinek observes, ‘Your company doesn’t […]
Sweeping the Sheds
SWEEP THE SHEDS Sweep the Sheds: A Powerful Concept for Team Building By Jim Grout There are stacks of books in my office and the largest is about team building. One book stands out from the rest, it’s LEGACY, about New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team. Subtitled What the All Blacks Have to Teach Us […]