Reblogged from Farnam Street Here are four questions to consider each time you speak. 1. Is it true? 2. Is it necessary? 3. Is it kind? 4. Does it improve upon the silence? These can be incorporated into the acronym THINK… [read more]
Category Archives: Team building
In praise of conflict
I recently heard a friend saying that they had been a course. I am all for self-development so I asked what it was about, “Minimising conflict in your team” was the reply. This really concerned me. If the intention was to minimise conflict, then presumably the ultimate aim would be to eliminate conflict. Conflict is vital to […]
Helpful conversations
Self-development is taking time to reflect on areas of your life where you feel you have yet to reach your full potential – finding ways to improve your confidence, increase your knowledge and fulfill your aspirations. If you want to do this – then this blog is for you. If you want to know even more – […]
On-line task manager
Finally I’ve found a task/to do list that works on-line and syncs seamlessly with my phone. I tried Remember the Milk but is was hard going. It dropped tasks and would not let me add notes to them. It was basic and a bit flaky, in short. Producteev looks like it could be it though. It is much more visual than Remember […]
Forming, storming, norming & performing – how a team develops
Teams develop through a set of four stages. First proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, he suggested that this was normal and needed if the team was to work well together. If the team experiences major change, or a significant threat, it can go back to the Storming or Norming stages again. If you’ve ever been […]
Self defeating performance improvement
Myron Tribus “Perversity Principle”: “If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.” Sadly all too true. He was […]
Business Balls
I love this site. The layout is well, basic But the content is marvellous, I can get lost in here for hours at a time. It describes itself as an ethical learning and development resources. Subjects range from the straightforward SWOT to an in-depth look at the various psychometric profiling schemes out there. A lot […]