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Tag: Teambuilding

  • How to Build a New Team (Starting Today)

    Many of us think we know how to build a new team, but it isn’t as easy as many of us might think. This process happens every day in organizations, whether people realize it or not. Let’s look at what I normally tell managers when they consider adding a new staff member: Manager: I’d like…

  • The Secret of Teams (Book Review)

    The Secret of Teams: What Great Teams Know and Do by Mark Miller I recently finished reading the secret of teams, and my head is reeling. Every one of us work on a number of teams, and the concepts in this book can help us to achieve greater success within each of those team environments.…

  • The Orange Revolution (Book Review)

    The Orange Revolution by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton I reviewed a book previously by these authors (All In), and I might start a fan club. They’re darn good at what they do. I purchased The Orange Revolution a few months ago because I had a grand vision. When I read the subtitle (how one…

  • Team Building Session? Try This Exercise

    How to rock your next team building session Recently I learned of a unique team building session idea that I have been itching to try out. I was able to wrangle a friend into testing it out at her office, and it had very positive results. Today we’ll be looking at what I’ve come to…

  • Benefits of Team Building

    What are the benefits of team building? How can you use team building strategies to grow and develop a team that is agile, talented, and cohesive? Do you have to actively work to develop your team, or is hiring the right people enough? Great Teams Don’t Just Happen I reached out to my friend Stephanie…

  • Human Resource Management Planning-The Micro Level

    Shortly into my lunch meeting, I realized it was a human resource management planning exercise in disguise. And it was so much fun. I talk often about what it’s like working for Pinnacle. A sizable portion of what makes it a great working environment is having a manager who truly spends their time looking for…

  • Fitting the job to the person

    I’ve been talking a lot about Pinnacle lately, but there are so many neat things we can do as a smaller company that I’ve never even considered in the past. A great example of that is the tendency to fit the job to the person on our Operations Team. Instead of rigidly defining what the…