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3 Keys to Team Building Exercises that Create Impact

BrainZooming

I was the “interviewee” for an “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence about how to plan team building exercises that create impact for work teams. As described in the article, I’ve been on the good and bad side of various team building exercises during my career. Instead, we’ve tried to use the right mix of pre-packaged programs and custom designed team building exercises (i.e.,

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How to Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams in the Workplace

CMOE

A cross-functional team can bring together people and departments that are as different as parts of a body. Yet in a cross-functional team, each seemingly unrelated part must work together, just like the eye and foot work together to help a person walk. Collaboration Team Building

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5 Principles That Govern High-Functioning Teams

CMOE

High-functioning teams consist of individuals who achieve positive outcomes for their team and organization. These groups outperform other teams, going above and beyond to reach high-quality results. Team members demonstrate leadership and earn the trust of their colleagues.

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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

However, because the focus tends to be on individual performance, the EQ of teams as a whole can easily be overlooked. First, the average EQ of employees on a team affects that team’s performance. Second, we are now learning that teams can be trained to incorporate high-EQ practices into their daily activities and the ways they interact with others. Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance? Team Building emotional intelligence

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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

However, because the focus tends to be on individual performance, the EQ of teams as a whole can easily be overlooked. First, the average EQ of employees on a team affects that team’s performance. Second, we are now learning that teams can be trained to incorporate high-EQ practices into their daily activities and the ways they interact with others. Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance? Team Building emotional intelligence

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The 3 Key Elements to an Employee-Retention Strategy

CMOE

Retaining your team is crucial to your organization’s success. Morale: With people leaving, team members might become overworked to compensate for the lack of workforce. Be sure to take a personal interest in each team member’s growth by discussing their goals and aspirations.

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Should Work from Home in Canada Be the New Normal?

Innovators Alliance

With 61% of Canadians now having received their first vaccination , some organizations are considering bringing their teams back to work, but is it the best choice or should working from home in Canada be the new normal?

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Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples

InnovationTraining.org

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. If you’re interested in running more effective, innovative meetings with your team, you’ve come to the right place. marathon” = 24-48 hour event.

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User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

Boxes and Arrows

When conducting research with consumers, we always recruit one extra participant in the event there is a no-show. What is motivating is providing small business owners and their employees with information and tips on how to run the business successfully: things like offering free accounting software, coaching on social media best practices, and personal access to a member of the support team for assistance. Discovery, Research, and Testing Learning From Others Methods

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Leading a Culture of Innovation with Design Thinking Facilitation

InnovationTraining.org

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. Most of the times our events are private within a single organization. Networking and learning from others.

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Leadership Retreat Facilitation and Planning

InnovationTraining.org

Depending on budget, your organization may take a trip over a few days or host a one-day event locally or virtually. This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. Include skill building sessions.

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7 Ways to Boost Employee Morale in Your Workplace

Idea to Value

The ideal work environment will foster high morale on a regular basis, and this will feed high employee satisfaction ratings and motivate your team to be as productive as possible on a regular basis. Your team needs to understand what your goals are and how they were selected. When creating and managing workloads for your team, ensure that the workload is as evenly spread out as possible. Send a card or gift for birthdays, the birth of a child and other special events.

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How to Run a Hackathon that Spurs Real Innovation

IdeaScale

The term has since evolved to encompass other types of intensive collaboration events. Assemble teams that encourage mixing and working with new people. Otherwise, it’s the same work teams in a different environment, which makes genuinely new ideas less likely to emerge. Prepare brainstorming exercises in advance so that your hackathon team can hit the ground running. Hackathons usually have a preparation phase between event announcement and the actual “hack time.”

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It Takes The Village To Raise A Child

Innovation Excellence

You don’t get this in job interviews anymore: how are you as a Team member? In my first interview, some twenty years ago, I spent way too much time describing the ‘me’ and the ‘we’, and how I was going to align with the team. So, self-development fosters team success.

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Let’s Get Together Again! Why In-Person Meetings Are Still Important

Innovators Alliance

In-person meetings are also most effective for establishing or re-establishing connections between team members or checking out newly configured office space. We know our members cherish the tips they learn from each other—after connections are made at our in-person meetings.

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Why diversity is important to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

We've just finished the 11th Annual Innovate Carolina conference, and since this is the year of COVID we held a virtual conference rather than our traditional in person event. I've long believed in the concept of diversity and what a strong and diverse team can bring to an innovation program.

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Gamification: An Ideal Methodology for Dealing with Big HR Challenges

Innovation Excellence

But, as is always the case, when new methodologies arrive, there are some lingering doubts: can serious games generate a tangible output beyond contributing to team building and having fun?

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The Key To Establishing a Corporate Culture of Caring

Business and Tech

That’s why it’s crucial for employers to holistically support their teams, especially those who care for family outside of the office. Whether you know it or not, family caregivers are an ever-growing portion of your team.

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The Future of Education – how to build future-ready education

etventure

What do we have to learn today to be prepared for tomorrow? To discuss these questions with some of the most innovative minds in this field, etventure has teamed up with CODE University in Berlin and invited them to the “Future of Education” event at wavespace Berlin.

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Quest for the elusive Innovation Framework

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: I have read countless blog posts, wrote a few myself, watched videos, did innovation courses, read books on innovation, all in the quest to learn what makes innovation happen and if there is a way to institutionalize innovation. We try to create the right environment for our children to grow in, take care of them, ensure that they develop the right habits, send them to good schools so they learn well, coach them, get them to sports events, music classes, etc.

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The 22 Best Business Coaching Websites You Need to Check Out This Year

CMOE

A coaching culture empowers team members at all levels to be able to move quickly, respond to emerging business priorities, and contribute to the bottom-line, and 80% of team members who have received coaching report improved performance, productivity, and well-being.

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25 Podcasts for Managers (with Episode Recommendations)

CMOE

Let’s Talk Teams by Uptick. In this post, you can peruse our picks for podcasts for managers and leaders, including episodes on topics like the following: Building better leadership skills. Learn to manage jerks in the workplace, rather than just avoiding or eliminating them.

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The 5 Most-Needed Qualities for Leadership in Healthcare

CMOE

Doing so can help you build a more-engaged workforce that consistently improves clinical outcomes in patients. Healthcare leaders must guide their team members through patient care, equipping them with the right knowledge and tools to protect the well-being of their patients.

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Driving Open Innovation Through a Culture of Collaboration

eZassi

The values and beliefs are literally embedded in every policy, procedure, meeting, and event. Look for ways in which the old culture is codified in policies and procedures, or reflected in everything from team building exercises to corporate retreats, and change them to reflect a collaboration culture. Contact us to learn more or request a demo.

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Creating Joy with JoyMakers Innovation Sprint

CREATORS

Last week we were extremely excited to have our final event of JoyMakers program. We mentioned the JoyMakers program several times, and now, after the final event, it’s time to share the process and what we’ve achieved. Research and Analysis Altogether, we had 10 sessions with our partner’s team (Joy Ventures) devoted to analyzing and defining the mission and the challenges we are aiming to solve?—?the And of course… to team up! Final event?—?prizes

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The marketer’s guide to innovation with hackathons

hackerearth

Considered an event that’s right up their alley; engineers and developers have practically staked their claim to it. So here I am, having concluded a hackathon with a team of 25 marketers at HackerEarth , ready to share an honest case with all growth hackers and marketers to determine if hackathons are worthy a tool to explore and what problems they can really solve with it. This is because the objective of a hackathon is to build something within a short duration.

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Motivation of remote teams: 9 essential tips that every leader should know

mjvinnovation

Even though remote work has its benefits there is a learning curve. That is why more and more leaders are looking for ways to motivate remote teams. Leadership that acts as if it were in a traditional work environment is very demotivating for remote teams.

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8 Successfactors of Organizing a Global Hackathon

Be-novative

From the Facilitators’ point of view What does it take for a team to win? As a founder, CEO with a psychology background, for me it is just as much about the experience and learning we can provide for the participants. Distributed teams were formed by like-minded people from different backgrounds across Asia (279 teams), Americas (88 teams) and Europe (106 teams) bringing in various viewpoints about their future products.

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The marketer’s guide to innovation with hackathons

hackerearth

Considered an event that’s right up their alley; engineers and developers have practically staked their claim to it. So here I am, having concluded a hackathon with a team of 25 marketers at HackerEarth , ready to share an honest case with all growth hackers and marketers to determine if hackathons are worthy a tool to explore and what problems they can really solve with it. This is because the objective of a hackathon is to build something within a short duration.

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The marketer’s guide to innovation with hackathons

hackerearth

Considered an event that’s right up their alley; engineers and developers have practically staked their claim to it. So here I am, having concluded a hackathon with a team of 25 marketers at HackerEarth , ready to share an honest case with all growth hackers and marketers to determine if hackathons are worthy a tool to explore and what problems they can really solve with it. This is because the objective of a hackathon is to build something within a short duration.

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How to Ensure that Your Next Conference Will Be a Big Success

Idea Champions

We design and facilitate conferences that make a big difference -- memorable events that are totally engaging, enjoyable, and radically increase the odds of your conference outcomes sustaining over time. LEARNING PLANS: Will there be chicken at your conference? Towards that end, long before your conference begins, attendees will commit to three things they want to learn at your event, three people they want to learn it from, and three things they can teach.

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Are Design Patterns an Anti-pattern?

Boxes and Arrows

They are generally said to help: instruct junior user experience people save time of documenting design details in every project make collaboration with developers easier encourage consistency The case against design patterns Pattern libraries have laudable goals, but in practice, design patterns do not support how teams actually work. Should your team invest time in making a pattern library as a training tool, or just change the way they work?

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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

Boxes and Arrows

Introduction The role of the interaction designer is to specify the interface’s behaviors and elements, so that engineers know what to build and how the product should operate. The documentation needs are often based on the size of the project, launch date, team dynamics, audience, technology, and the product development process. As designers, we often find ourselves working with teams that are using agile processes. Trust Trust is a major factor among team members.

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