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<title>Michael Cardus - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael's Consulting, Facilitation, Training and Coaching results in increased retention of staff, increased satisfaction with work, increased collaboration and information sharing within and between departments, increased accountability of success and failures, increased knowledge transfer, increased trust as well as speed of project completion and decision making of Leaders, Teams and Organizations. Michael founded Create-Learning; a Buffalo NY based learning and consulting firm that provides experiential corporate, college and classroom development that creates great experiences for lasting memories and improved performance. He facilitates, coaches, educates, and speaks to groups in a variety of settings including Fortune 500 Companies, small business, universities ... ]]></description>
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<title>Putting the I in Team</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:52:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When facilitating Team Building & Leadership programs many tools and processes are used to strengthen the talent of the individuals. In strengthening talent & autonomy of people greater shared team, organizational knowledge plus capacity for accomplishing tasks is created.]]></description>
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<title>Eliminating Negative to Place Focus on the Positive</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:34:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eliminating negative has a greater impact than accentuated positive. The challenge is to eliminate the negative in a way that does not create more negative.]]></description>
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<title>Facilitating Team Building Activities Using the STAR</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:50:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The STAR method is a behavioral interviewing method that organizations use to explore predictors of future performance. The idea is this that most accurate indicator of future performance is past performance in a similar situation.]]></description>
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<title>Clear and Distinct Expectations For Team Leadership</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:52:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Clear and distinct ideas, guidelines and expectations are what is needed for change within yourself, your team, your organization. The problem of change is that many people do not know what is expected of them.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Requires Accountability - Here Is How to Do It</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:11:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part of Leadership Process & Leadership Coaching is focusing on accountabilities. Accountabilities of people, teams and of me as the facilitator. These accountabilities are in-line with Goal Setting, time frames and learning agendas.]]></description>
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<title>Planning a Change - How Teams Succeed</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:45:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When planning for a change you need reflective and purposeful steps. This change may be personal and / or professional. I am not recommending a total development and then launch. As I have written about before, when you feel over 70% certain GO! the rest will fall into place, "We need success not perfection". Additionally breaking Macro-Decisions into Micro-Decisions will result in greater motivation and ability to be agile in your leadership of the change process.]]></description>
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<title>Decision Making Methods For Teams</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:20:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While a decision within organizations often relies upon facts and data, teams must agree upon a method for making decisions based upon the data. Ensuring that the decisions made are done with a process and purpose that the team can utilize to make the best possible decision with the given facts and data.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Activity - Department Perception</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:22:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A corporate TeamBuilding activity developed for departments to explore their perceptions of the other departments and explore their perceptions of work. Additionally for departments to explain their role to people who are not in their department.]]></description>
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<title>Talent Management Falls to Bottom of Leaders To-Do List</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:52:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With this mantra of economic doom and gloom organizational leaders are shifting their focus away from Team Development and talent enhancement, forcing them to scramble to cut costs....top leaders around the world ranked financial pressures to cut costs and rapid market decline as their toughest business challenges, dropping talent management to last on the list of business challenges. Developing and retaining high-performing talent is a key business strategy that should not be overlooked...]]></description>
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<title>Team Building - Perception of Repetition Adds Value to Team Experience</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:01:38 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Working with corporate clients.  Many of them have giving me the pleasure of consulting with them for many years now. Some at this point know and have a good idea of my "bag of tricks" as well as have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers that they require. How does this apply to Challenge courses & Ropes Courses - everyone has a perception that is created within their minds.  Also the team creates a perception this is the team view.  This article illustrates adding value to repeated Team Building Activities.]]></description>
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<title>Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Be Useful to One Another - Part 2</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:41:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aristotle suggested that friends must "be useful to one another". Team members that have satisfaction with their jobs and stay with a team for years have developed a deep understanding of reciprocal team tasks and responsibilities with the team members' roles. This falls back to the idea mentioned earlier of "being a team member as opposed to making oneself desirable for membership in the team".]]></description>
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<title>Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Enjoy Each Others Company - Part 1</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:27:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aristotle suggested that friends must enjoy each other's company. Some people within work teams place the focus of enjoyment on others. They spend time viewing friends, colleagues, and organizations as places and people that should see and desire to find the treasure that is within them. Team members work very hard at being likeable and making themselves desirable for membership on the team. Developing an environment that is like a market place.]]></description>
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<title>Should Team Members Be Friends? Team Members Must Have a Common Commitment to the Good - Part 3</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:14:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Aristotle suggested that friends "have a common commitment to the good". Goals, metrics, benchmarks within a culture where the team members focus on making their team and organization successful while remaining accountable for their actions, a commitment to the common good. A team member that is lacking a commitment to the common good is one that is only making themselves desirable for the next opportunity.]]></description>
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<title>Internal Motivation of Team Members - Team Building Activity in Motivation</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:44:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Overcoming challenges that appear impossible although with assistance and motivation from a network we can take our level of expertise and amplify it - with help. Pride causes us to not ask for help when needed. We feel that we built this thing (business etc..) we can do it alone, and often time our motivation for greatness causes blind spots that we are not aware of. Although greatness comes to those who admit that they need help and learned from the mistakes and successes of others.]]></description>
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<title>Team Value Added Decisions</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:55:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What value are you giving to your organization? This is a question that as a team member you ought to be focusing on. We spend time thinking "What are they doing for me?" This thought creates resentment and a victim mentality within yourself.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Activity - Bright, Blurry, Blind - Enhance Organizational Transparency</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:15:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A team building activity that give teams and participants an opportunity to think and speak about concerns and give accolades to each other. Additionally by illuminating topics within departments and the organization, teams can then brain storm and strengthen the team. Facilitating a "one team" atmosphere then empowering the participants to share information and techniques that are successful that may have never had the opportunity to be shared in an open forum.]]></description>
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<title>Train the Trainer &amp; Experiential Facilitator Team Building Training</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:38:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An example of a train the trainer-experiential trainer-team building facilitator program for a corporate organization. This sample program was created for adult learners and is weighted towards experiential development and providing transference of learning to the participants lives at work and home.]]></description>
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<title>Environmentalism &amp; Team Building - False Direction of Team Theories</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:18:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I was in a discussion with some professors at College Leadership Conference about the "Green Movement". I made the comment that many colleges and businesses are shifting to green initiatives because it is the "in" thing recently. While I visit many college campuses I see litter and little to no recycling and I see false environmental Jargon with no teeth. These professors stared at me for a moment, then expressed that many of them do not know what to do to justify the environmental movement on campus.]]></description>
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<title>Paradigm Shift - Which Map Are You Working From?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:49:02 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Teams reach a level of success and think if we just do this faster, better cheaper we will continue to progress. The reality is that the team will only get to a certain point - I call it the "Plateau". Following the Plateau comes the - "Crash" - the crash occurs when the team loses sight of what brought them there in the first place and lose all the steps that brought them to the plateau.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Facilitator Tips - Silence - the Hammer in Your Tool Box</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:54:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Silence - just when you feel that you need to jump in and save the team, that is when you need to be a true leader and get out the way. Teams are only accountable if you expect them to be accountable - put the power where it belongs in your teams' hands.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Team Building Program - Sales Team Development Sample Agenda</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:21:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An example of a team building program developed for a team of 20 sales professionals from a functional sales team. The program was an afternoon program. The morning was spent discussing sales team "best practices" and an interactive lecture on game theory.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Activity - Mind Spin - Brainstorming, Problem Solving, Creative Thought Development</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mind Spin - creates an environment of unstructured brain storming. This Team Building activity can also be used for a creative solution finding initiative and a processing event at the end of a workshop. Can easily be adapted to fit your team needs.]]></description>
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<title>Successful Teams - What Makes Them?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:01:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What are the right action steps to take for a successful team? I have been pondering this question for several weeks now. Is it logistics, Fishbone charts, 8D Problem Solving, 6 Sigma Projects, training programs, Gen x workers Gen y workers - millennials, baby boomers etc... Are you prepared for a successful team - many people and leaders say yes and do not really mean it. A team that has success is also a team that has failures - many - many failures. A team with success also has challenges - many - many - many challenges. A team with success has conflict - lots - lots - lots of conflict. A team with success is transparent - the leadership & team members share with the team all that is going on.  ]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Program - Sample Agenda Community Building &amp; Inter-Departmental Collaboration</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:39:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Often time Team Building Organizations and Customers looking for a team building program lack the understanding of what a "Team Building Agenda" looks like. Below is a sample group full day agenda...]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Success - 4 Steps To Implement</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:01:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you want your team building program to be a success? While many factors play a part in creating a successful meeting, off site and team training program - here are 4 ways that work for organizations team success. 1) Full understanding of why they are there, 2) Proper Sequencing of Events, 3) Focus on Processing and Debriefing, 4) Follow up and now what? ]]></description>
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<title>Open Ended Questions - Super Size Your Team Building Event</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/963560</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:33:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Using open ended questions is a tool that a team building facilitator uses to bring participants to examine what was learned.  These questions have no right or wrong answer they are meant to trigger thought and insight in the team members.  These questions can be used for front loading - setting up the thoughts prior to the beginning of a team building activity. These questions can also be used following an activity to reflect on the team and where they are going.  ]]></description>
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<title>Team Building - Break the Comfort Levels</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:02:41 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Managers and leaders are encouraged to create procedures and policies that encourage people to follow proven "trails" to create a measurable outcome, maybe a sale, or a product. Managers spend time working to make people be at their most effective. How often do managers, individuals, and teams push themselves out of their discipline? How often are individuals and teams given the opportunity to safely practice pushing that comfort zone, to walk a different "trail"?]]></description>
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<title>Challenge (Ropes) Course - Rethink the Standard For Team Training - Increase Commitment to Results</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/935760</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:05:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ropes courses have their fit with team building and leadership development, if properly facilitated any experience can be metaphorically tied-back to work life. The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done. The challenge for the consumer wanting a ropes course experience is to have realistic expectations of what can be done. What team members should realize is that there are great team building activities out there that do not require a ropes course, that push your limits mentally and physically and allow the team to use all its power to replicate and solve work and organizational problems.]]></description>
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<title>Experiential Training and Development</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:58:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Experiential education is just like other learning processes in the way that it is best taught and understood by the breaking down into stages.  Experiential learning cycles treat the learner's subjective experience as of critical importance in the learning process.  Experiential learning cycles (ELC) draw on experiential education principles, which are largely based on the educational philosophy of John Dewey.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Team Building Activity - Failure To Achieve Results</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:36:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Last team building program a total failure? Many organizations hire a team building facilitator with little to no research on what they wish to achieve. This article lists 4 common reasons why most team building programs fail. ]]></description>
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<title>Employees Were Paddled And Had Pies Thrown In Their Face - Team Building Events</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:34:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Employees were paddled and had pies tossed into their face. All in the name of fun and team building. These events are what gives the term "team building" a bad name and why many organizations would rather have team members sit through a 6 hour power point (death) presentation, then hire professionals to create a stronger team. ]]></description>
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<title>Shared Leadership from Sun Tzu's &quot;The Art of War&quot;</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:28:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A leader who is highly talented has all the knowledge, is brought into a company as the "Savior" and the company still fails to succeed. Excellent leaders are able to build and create a team that exceed the competence of one all knowing power house of leadership.]]></description>
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<title>Team Building Consultant - Consultant, Trainer And Facilitator</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:01:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Team Building consultants generally use three overlapping, but distinct roles (Consultant-Trainer-Facilitator). Each of the roles mentioned in this article keeps the learning and Team training meaningful, self-reflective, team-reflective, and most importantly fun!]]></description>
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