Dear Geese, My staff cringes whenever I bring up the topic of team building. Talk about resistance! Last year we went to a baseball game as a group but I’m not sure anything was accomplished. Oh wait, we did decide to never do a baseball game again…but I digress. Is team building really …
“I Don’t Need to be There…”
I received a call from a company (that found me on the internet) requesting a team building session for their leadership team. As grateful as I was to possibly get a new client, I also knew all too well that a request for “team building” is often a front for much more serious problems. Hence, I no …
When to Escalate Conflict
As a nation of primarily conflict avoidant people, just the notion of escalating conflict can sound like a contradiction. And yet, there are times when escalating a conflict is exactly what you need to do. But the conditions have to be right. What do I mean? I mean that there has to be an …