by Wayne Bennett, CEO of TeamWorx Team Building Team Building Breaks Business Silos If you’re reading these words then you probably have silos in your business and you want to get rid of them; the title team building breaks business silos is good news. You probably want to have different departments and work groups interacting better. Improved…
by Wayne Bennett, CEO of TeamWorx Team Building Team Building Value Defined Link to all TeamWorx Team Building Offerings Including: Onsite, Hybrid, and Virtual Events for Teams Team building value defined: Not everything a group does together outside of work is team building. I often hear people refer to activities like going bowling, playing games…
by Wayne Bennett, CEO of TeamWorx Team Building Why Dynamic Discourse™ is Critical in Today’s Environment I recently engaged Dynamic Discourse™ to resolve a dog poo war, not throwing it at each other as the name may suggest, but rather an intense neighborhood dispute that spilled over into dozens of people and multiple government agencies.
by Wayne Bennett, CEO of TeamWorx Team Building Consensus Means Agreement not the Best Answer One of the biggest myths and most controversial topics I try to debunk in my team training classes is that consensus is a good thing. We have been fed a mindless and mind numbing amount of teamwork information that purports…
Teamwork Over Individual Genius Sign of the times: Shepherd of Windows™ operating system ousted over bad teamwork skills. Steven Sinofsky is a sign of the times: Teamwork Over Individual Genius. Anyone who thinks communication and collaboration are “soft” skills might want to consider the recent ousting of an incredible outlier, a modern icon of business…
Walking the Talk Leadership The Two Edged Sword of Religion: Why Religion helps and hurts our behavior, and why clarifying individual values are critical to building loyalty in organizations. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be inspired by their religious beliefs to be better people, and other people with the same beliefs…
Teamwork Culture What Babies and College Football Tell Us about Human Nature “Us and them” is perhaps the simplest explanation of human nature. As many of you may have seen recently on 60 minutes, our understanding of babies and what they are thinking has grown leaps and bounds thanks to fascinating research being conducted at…
Why Democrats and Republicans Cannot Get Along Why Democrats and Republicans cannot get along you ask? We are as humans inherently righteous. That is the basic premise of Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. Starting from this premise makes it much easier to understand how “Uncle…
Workplace Generations A Model to Identify Employee’s Generation Workplace Generations is a hot topic because millions of Millennials are pouring into the workplace with a new set of values that are often at odds with conventional thinking. Because of this we took to task figuring out what generation we all fall into. Below is an easy…