Posts By: Samantha McDuffee
Learn How to Communicate Effectively to Improve Teamwork
Communication affects teamwork in positive and negative ways. The quantity and quality of communication within a team and from leadership affects teamwork. The more collaboration your projects require the more assertive and intentional your communication should be. Every member of the team needs to take the initiative to communicate. When a team is not actively communicating, their work is at stake. It’s important for everyone to learn how to communicate effectively in order to work effectively. (more…)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind? 5 Virtual Team Building Activities That Work
It’s one thing to create an atmosphere of trust and a feeling of camaraderie between employees when they’re all in the same building 40 or so hours a week.
6 Reasons Why Leaders Choose Team Building Ideas That Work
Team building brings people together by encouraging collaboration and teamwork. Fun activities that help people see each other in a different light allow them to connect in a different setting. People on your team are asked to think about the implications of these activities at their workplace.
Get to Know Your Team | 5 Team Building Activities for Work
Know each other as people, not just professionals. We’re all so much more than our job titles. We have interests that may have drawn each of us to our roles and help us excel within them. There are easy team building icebreaker activities for work that will help you and your team bond and get to know each other as more than just your role in the office. (more…)
6 DIY Team Bonding Activities That Work
It’s easy… right? You just need to find the right people with the right skills, put them in a room together, and you have a well-oiled team. They’re smart, and they know their stuff: they’ll figure out how to get the work done…except it doesn’t always work out that way. (more…)
Team Building Exercise | Toys R Us Ice Breaker
Team building games and ice breaker activities for adults can keep your team bonded throughout the year. Get started with this simple DIY team building exercise. EXERCISE GOAL: Participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves and those around them through ice breaker activities. (more…)
3 Team Building Activities That Boost Communication in the Workplace
The numbers are staggering.
Meet The Team: Wendy Bryan
In this series of articles, we take five minutes to chat with a member of the TeamBonding team so you can get an idea of the sort of people we are. In this installment, we talk to Wendy, our new Director of Event Operations, about her favorite place in the world and the most important things in life.
Carpooling | 3 Green Team Building Ideas That Rock
#1 Carpools, rideshares and biking. Oh my! Going green isn’t just about what you do at home. If you’re spending 40 hours a week at work, that’s likely over 35% of your waking life in an office. You may have noticed that for a team of people, that much time in the office can all add up to a lot of waste.
Celebrate Administrative Professionals’ Day Like a Boss
Administrative Professionals’ Day (also known as Administrative Assistant Day, Secretaries Day or Admin Day) is a day to highlight the important role of secretaries, assistants, receptionists, and other administrative support, which is observed in several countries.
14 Resolutions to Kick Off Your Team Building Strategies in the New Year
Have you made a team building resolution for the New Year?! You should!
Rule Your Workplace Culture with an Iron Fist
A staggering 96% of people think that their workplace culture needs a change. This isn’t about laying down the law. This is about individual accountability and intention.
Avoid Team Building Strategies that Don’t Work
CNBC has 11 great tips to help you make sure that your team building activities don’t have the unintended consequence of pulling your team of employees apart.
Stop Killing Employee Morale | 4 Ways to Boost Team Motivation Right Now
There are many reasons that projects fail. Many challenges are rooted in team participation and engagement.
7 Tools that Foster Effective Teamwork
Whether your entire team typically works under the same roof or you’re spread out among remote offices (or coffee shops), you must work together to reach a common goal. From conference call meetings to e-mail agendas, it can be difficult to foster effective teamwork.
Keep Your InternSHIPS from Sinking
Tips For Onboarding Students Internships can deliver a lot of value for students and companies. Running an internship program may just feel like extra work, but (like any investment) the rate of return for employers and for students is rooted in what you put into the program.
14 Tweetable Team Building Quotes that Rock!
It’s Monday. Blah! It’s probably a short week in the office for you, but short weeks can feel like the lonnnnngest.
Plan Your Company Holiday Party | Save the Date Ideas
Whether you’re planning a large office holiday party or a small company outing, take fun seriously. The more you plan, the more relaxed you will be and the more fun you’ll have with your team. The worst part of planning a last minute holiday activity, is that it will feel last minute, and the only solution to last minute is to break the bank.
How to Rock Take Our Kids to Work Day
On the fourth Thursday of each April, more than 37 million people in over 3.5 million US offices participate in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day – founded by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women in 1993. (more…)
5 Elements of Cooperative Learning | Help Your Team Learn Considerably More
Results are very important to companies and team leaders, but how team members interact with each other to achieve results is often a neglected aspect of managing a team. (more…)
3 Tips to Start Collaborating at Holiday Parties
Holiday parties provide a great platform for team networking, which helps you refine skills and lay a strong foundation for collaborating with others.
IMEX 2015 | Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow
How does one put into words the feeling of being in the Las Vegas Convention Center with thousands of folks all in the event industry? IMEX 2015 was a nonstop crazy “workation” as the best of the best venues and vendors brought the very latest of what they had to offer. We felt right at home on this global stage as our colleagues in the event world all had one thing in common—they love their jobs and they love creating memorable and unique experiences. (more…)
