Team Building Tips

Do you have a death wish for your department at work?  Do you want to see your team fail in meeting the group's latest challenge?  If so, just stifle communication.  It's really easy to do.  In fact, you may already be doing it unawares.

Sometimes groups find themselves in a bad place.  Team members are burned out, demoralized and just plain cranky.  It can happen to the best of them.  If it happens to your team, you've got to jump in and help the team change directions.

Everybody's talking. Cell phones are everywhere. Meetings fill calendars, and spill over into spontaneous hallway and parking lot conversations (where the real work sometimes gets done). People tumble over each trying to get airtime, bandwidth and mindshare. With all that talking...is anybody listening?

It may not be cold outside, but that is the effect you will generate in your office just after you've barked at one of your direct reports.