Choices–Defining Shared Boundaries Within Work
Choices from Michael Cardus Here is an opening activity used in many workshops. It leads to discussion & content & framing of shared boundaries about Goals. Who sets them Who is...
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Creating and Sustaining Skeptical Teams–CFI Leadership Conference
I will be speaking at the Center for Inquiry Leadership Conference ‘Reason for Change’. The conference runs from July 24-27, 2014. Learn more about the Reason for Change Leadership Conference my...
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Evidence Unicorns Bullshit – 3 Areas Of Team Building and Leadership Development
This is a repost from a blog post I wrote in 2011. image from Free Extras If you dislike theory, and seek only “Practical action”; That is unfortunate. Anything you do is founded upon a theory of some...
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Creating and Sustaining Skeptical Teams–Workshop Slides
Had the honor of presenting at the Center for Inquiry Leadership Conference ‘Reason for Change’. Below are the slides from my workshop: Creating and Sustaining Skeptical Teams from Michael Cardus...
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Creating and Sustaining Teams–Conference photos
I am still glowing from the time & learning I had at the Center for Inquiry Leadership Conference. Presentation notes & Slides for ‘Creating & Sustaining Skeptical Teams’ All the photos...
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Leadership Behavior Lists are Hyperbolic at best, Rife with Confirmation-Bias...
All behavior traits we attribute to good leaders are the same behaviors of a decent person. This is why defining in-group behavior traits are hyperbolic or a dangerous way for incompetent managers to...
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Finding Shared Vulnerability Attracts Trust
As work & environments seem to increase in complexity & uncertainty & ambiguity the more we want to believe that there’s deterministic solution. Unfortunately people do not work that...
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Team Building and Leadership Development with MBA Students. Simon Graduate...
Outcomes of the Team Building & Leadership Development included; Student teams created a foundation of team-development. Shared language of team-development and leadership within the MBA program...
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Team Building and Leadership Development Agenda Finding what works
Working with teams over several months allows the team to take time to test what worked, how it worked, it what context & with whom it worked; plus the same can be applied to what did not work....
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Spin the Bottle Team Building Active Processing and Reflection Activity
Spin the Bottle Team Building Active Processing & Reflection Activity Props needed: Three water bottles Dry Erase Marker(s) Several Processing Questions, either laminated for reuse or just torn...
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Visa Small Business Team Coaching and Team Building Activity
I created Team Building & Leadership Development content for Visa Small Business The people you work with make your business. August’s small business influencer, Michael Cardus, has used his...
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Simon School of Business Executive MBA Team Building and Leadership Development
This is the fourth year in a row that I have had the honor of working with the University of Rochester Simon School of Business Executive MBA Program. Outcomes Included Creating and Sustaining High...
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Common Team Problems and When to Worry
Most teams have problems. Knowing if the problem is worth the effort & if the intervention may enlarge the problem requires skilled-knowledge. Skilled-Knowledge of when a team problem is just part...
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The failure was not in my effort or caring it was in my attempted solution
Doing more of the same will get you more of the same – no change. Change happens from shifts in effort, perspective & shared assumptions. While being observant about the useful changes that...
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A system that works to drive out fear to attract trust will see growth and...
Without setting the organization right. The right processes that enhance results. The right goals, the right roles, with the right people, facing the right direction, with sufficient leg room to...
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Business Development Consulting with Emerging Entrepreneurs
Had a great day with the University at Buffalo Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program. Outcomes from the workshop: Examining business processes...
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10 Steps to Restore or Improve Trust on a Team
Question How do you restore or improve trust on a team? Response Trust happens on purpose within a team. What is seen as “lost trust” is an inept organizational system that creates paranoia and fear...
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Is your management Too Small or Big Enough?
We all have had a manger who has less capable or as capable as us. While having a manager who has the same capability may sound nice, it creates tension. Tension between the Manager & you, because...
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Leveraging diversity to find what works and amplify it
I’m giving this talk / workshop in Atlanta Georgia. The client is looking for some academic & pragmatic ways to gather a wide variety of ideas, then create ways to implement the ideas. They are...
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To Do In Progress Complete – Project Management and Team Building Activity
This is sort of a team building, project management, goal-setting, communication idea. I walked into the ‘war room’ of a team that I am coaching / consulting and saw something similar to the image...
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