Team Building


Recent Team Building Articles

Keep Your Team Together Through Tough Times

Every business has setbacks. These three steps can help you create an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to navigate past the rough patches.  Read more

4 Tips to Help Veterans Succeed at Your Company

Veterans can make for highly disciplined and skilled employees. Make sure you set them up for success with these tips.  Read more

6 Ways to Survive a Holiday Work Party

Here are six sure-fire survival tips for the inevitable holiday get-together.  Read more

How to Bulletproof Your Company Culture

Growth often comes at a cost: Acquisitions and fast hiring decisions can wreak havoc on your company culture. Here's how not to let it happen.  Read more

Build the Best Team Possible (Drycleaning Matters, But Not Why You Think)

Start by asking a potential hire his life's goals--and then draw a roadmap of how those can be achieved working for you.  Read more

How a Strong Team Will Help You Land Big Deals

Follow Warren Buffett's example--the confidence to close big deals comes from having a strong team behind you.  Read more

3 Easy Ways to Make Employees Happy

It's your job to create an environment that fosters happiness. Here are three simple ways to do it.  Read more

9 People You Must Remove From Your Inner Circle

When you're trying to get a business off the ground, the people you surround yourself with matter. Keep these nine types at a distance.  Read more

Find a Cause, Give It to Your Team & Get Out of the Way

Beryl's fifth annual golf tournament to raise money to fight brain cancer was this week. We raised more money than ever before--and got more than that.  Read more

Make Your Employees Feel Like Winners

Awards can increase employee morale, help you attract top talent and generate brand awareness.  Read more

7 Ways to Earn Respect as a Leader

Are you feeling disrespected by your employees? It may be that you're failing in one of these seven areas.  Read more

7 Reasons Good Teams Become Dysfunctional

Here are the most common habits of a dysfunctional team and how to change them so you can get your group back on track.  Read more

To-Do Today: Eat Lunch With a Colleague

Ban mid-day meetings. Encourage employees to use lunch time to build relationships, and let their minds wander instead.  Read more

How Your Tech Team Can Help Win Clients

A software company hosts a hackathon and lets its engineers mingle with customers. The results may surprise you.  Read more

Team-Building Activities Are Worth It (Really)

A month ago, I paid to take my staff on a team-building scavenger hunt. Here's why it was definitely worth it.  Read more

Stop Drive-By Critics in Their Tracks

People who offer criticism without also offering a possible solution are not valuable to the discussion. These three steps will help you hold them accountable.  Read more

3 Cool Web Tools to Deepen Relationships With (Other) Entrepreneurs

Use technology to build stronger, more meaningful (virtual or real-life) relationships with small business owners. Here's three examples I love.  Read more

Why I Gave My Company a Month Off

We took a break from daily routine to spark companywide creativity. Here's what we came up with.  Read more

4 Ways to Eliminate Office Politics

Backstabbing employees, turf wars, closed-door meetings. Don't let petty politics infect your business.  Read more

Inspire Olympic-Size Team Spirit in Your Employees

Creating a real team-oriented approach, where everyone is rooting for the same thing, is crucial to any company.  Read more

Leadership Lessons from a Police Officer 

Former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton talks about passion, competition, and the leadership secrets he learned while leading the country's largest police f...  Watch video

Let Your Employees Know It's OK to Leave

Want to grow your business? Map out as clear-cut a strategy for employee exits as employee hires. Here's how.  Read more

Start-up Founders: Anatomy of a Good Team 

Dan Ratner, co-founder of Sittercity, talks about the individual strengths he and co-founder Genevieve Thiers bring to their business.  Watch video

5 Keys to a Killer Company Culture

It takes more than just a paycheck to keep your employees happy and engaged. Try these five techniques for building a great company culture.  Read more

How We Pick Each Other Up 

Dan Ratner, co-founder of Sittercity, talks about the ups and downs of co-founding a business.  Watch video