Unique Suggestions For Team Building Activities
If you landed here, you’re probably looking for some good suggestions for team-building activities. In this blog post, I’m going to give you some unconventional, unique, yet wildly useful and universally applicable team-building exercises. Whether you’re working remotely or in person, these tools will help build your team because they’re brain-friendly and allow people to […]
No Prep Icebreakers For Adults
So, you’re searching for icebreakers for adults, and you’ve stumbled upon this guide featuring five no prep icebreakers. I do this for a living, and I’m here to share the best of the best. I’m also going to help you avoid one of the biggest pitfalls when leading icebreakers with adults. Let’s be honest—if you’re […]
Icebreakers are Great for Trust … But You’re Doing It Wrong
Connection before content is essential for building trust, but too often, icebreakers are done wrong. In this article, I’ll share three examples—one from business, one from education, and one from a non-profit context—where I’ve seen people lead connection before content that works really well. The Purpose of Connection Before Content Unlike typical icebreakers, connection before […]
How To Be Interesting
What do you think is more important? To be interested—or to be interesting? You can actually answer that and see everyone else’s response right here. My answer to this question in today’s video might surprise you. I hope you choose to spend 7 minutes and 51 seconds with me today in cyberspace to stretch your thinking on the […]
Smart Leaders Do This
Have you hit a learning plateau? Have you even noticed? Don’t duck under your desk—it’s ok. It tends to happen to all of us once we get to a certain point in our leadership roles. But while It’s ok, you should try to push past it. Hitting that learning plateau can have big drawbacks for […]
How To “Manage Up”?
Vacuums come with a user guide, but why don’t people? “How do I manage up?” is one of the most frequent questions I hear from people. In other words, “how can I lead when I’m not in a position of leadership?” Everyone knows that they need to “manage up”, but very few people are sure […]
How To Empower Employees To Improve Performance
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This quote from Aristotle was the inspiration for the title of a project Google embarked on a few years ago to answer the question – “What makes a team effective?” And while Google was specifically looking at their own teams, the answers they found in […]
How To Keep Yourself Motivated To Achieve Your Goals
I believe the 3 personal stories I share in this video offer a transformative perspective shift in how to keep yourself motivated to achieve your goals. Got a few minutes for that? For those of you who read my note last week, you know that Will Wise, my co-founder, co-author, mentor, and friend of 10 […]
One Thing To Connect Everyone #TeamSeas
Did you know that I got engaged 💍 underwater—almost 10 years ago now? This story is related to something I believe the whole world can agree on and connect over. Watch this video to see actual footage of the underwater proposal and hear about a special announcement and project that I’m very passionate about. This is […]
How Do You Deal With A Difficult Employee
This week’s video is about how to turn difference into connection. The whole world was not meant to click – sometimes you’re going to have to work with someone that for whatever reason, you just clash with. When faced with a difficult employee, especially when it’s a situation where we’ve reached the end of our rope, our […]
