Team Building Tips

John is confused.  He prides himself as being a fair and reasonably good manager.  This is not his first assignment as a manager, but it is certainly turning out to be his most challenging.  John had taken over the sales team almost six months ago.  Performance at the time was not up to standard and although individual performance has improved over the last six months, John just cannot get his sales people to work as a team.  What is he missing out on, or not doing so well?

When you embark on the journey of organizational change you will undoubtedly encounter resistance. It is the inevitable friction between where you want to go and where you are. It is the result of many things but one thing is for sure, if you don’t deal with it … it will deal with you.
Resistance to change comes for many reasons but falls into one of four categories.

Change Management is the buzz word of business the world over.

Today's rapidly changing technology, the economy's roller-coaster ride, the constant mergers and acquisitions among companies, up-sizing, downsizing and resizing, and, of course, our country's response to terrorism have forced almost all of us to change, in some cases almost daily.