Have you ever been in a situation where someone does something, they don’t really think it through, and it’s embarrassing? And somehow they blame you, because you made it obvious – not that you meant to – that they didn’t think it through…
Is it possible, I asked the team, that this was a perfect storm? That you just happened to run into a combination of three random events that caused a problem you couldn’t have foreseen? That you dealt with the problem the best way you could?
A non-profit I work with needed to pack up its office and move to its new office. Most of the people packing would be volunteers, and we needed to make a way for them to easily see what needed to be done, select something to do, and feel useful and helpful quickly. So… I set up a Kanban board!
In my last post, I described an improv theater game you can use to increase your team’s social sensitivity. Here’s way you can vary this game if you have one person who has a disproportionately negative effect on the team, to see how their actions alone can affect the entire team…
Do you want to help your team learn to work together more effectively, and have fun at the same time? Have them play “Friend and Foe.” It’s easy — you just need a space big enough to move around in, and one simple rule…
Sometimes, rather than giving way to someone, you have to keep going, metaphorically speaking. I had a coworker once who’d always walk down the middle of the corridors between the cubicles. So I’d step to the side. He kept walking down the middle of the corridor. Then I tried something different…