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Welcome!

Got a simple request... as many of you know I am writting a new book on virtual teams... wondering if you could take a moment and complete my quick 10 question survey if you work in a virtual team environment... its quick and painless (plus you'll get a discount off of the book when it's done).

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GRGDSC2

Plus if you know anyone who works in virtual teams (especially managers/leaders) please forward that url to them... thanks for your help!

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Team Tip
Team building is what you do with people not to people.

Try kicking off your next meeting with this little icebreaker. Bake a cake and put in tin foil wrapped questions... cut the cake at your next meeting and have people answer the question in their slice!

You'll find out new things about your team... if you are stuck for questions pick up a copy of Coffee Talk from our store and use those ones -- its available as an epub for $2 ; )

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As promised this newsletter will be the most erratically delivered e-news on the world wide web. We don't guarantee that we will be biweekly, quarterly or even annually. But we do guarantee that when we send you something there will be good stuff to read.

As some of you know we have been working hard on a new team building apple based App... it's coming soon and I'll send you a link to the app store once it's done... it's close, and it's cool

Team Mover

We've been up to a whole bunch of good things over the past few months. One that I'm most excited about is helping out to deliver great team events at your place of work in an affordable and sustainable way.

We believe that team building is what you do with people not to them. With that in mind we set out to build the best team development program around. We think we've done a pretty good job with Team Mover.

Here is how it works.

1. We do an intake of your industry, company and the individuals in your team.
2. Then we make recommendations of team programs that we think your group will love!
3. Following that we implement customized, educationally rich, and "learnercentric" events (either 2 or 3 through out the year).
4. We provide you a tool kit to provide team events on a month to month or meeting to meeting basis.
5. We provide your managers leadership coaching on the implementation of those team events.

The best part about this is because you make a commitment to your team, we make a commitment to you with a reduced rate and great events.

If you are considering doing some team stuff. Check out Team Mover, you'll be surprised how much bang you'll get for your buck - all year long! Give us a call to find out more 902-541-0858.

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Team Tip
Team building is what you do with people not to people.

Try kicking off your next meeting with this little icebreaker. Get a couple buckets of ice cream, cones and a scooper and go from desk to desk this summer with some treats.

This is really fun to do, a great thing in the summer as a treat. If you can get one of those "ice cream man bikes" that would be fun too... otherwise just dress up in a Baskin' Robbins uniform and have some fun; )

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2011-02-25T08:18:00.001-08:00

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28 New Spring Team Ideas!

I was working on a forthcoming book on virtual and 24/7 team design and thought you may be interested in some new & fresh ideas for team building (in fact they are so new they are even unedited and formatted :) LOL... Hope they will help out as you start to plan your spring events.

Spring is here and its time to get your team to do the same. Here is a list of 25 cool things that you can do to energize your team.

Coffee Bar - Shut your office door, put garbage bags up on your windows and bring in your table lamps from home (shag carpet if you have it) to make a groovy atmosphere for a coffee house. Set up a stool in the corner and invite in your team. Pass out some “fancy coffees” and invite each person to take the stool and answer the “groovy question” - ie “What are you most excited about for this quarter? or What was your biggest success so far this year?”

Wiilympics - Set up a Wii or other game console in your staff room. Invite team members in to have a bit of an Olympic competition. Pick a game every day that everyone gets to play once and track peoples scores. Have a medal ceremony at the end of the week.

Coffee Talk - Take each member of your team out for coffee and a “taulk”. Use our Coffee Talk game book to help frame some fun and off the wall chats... Totally fun way to get to know your team without breaking the bank.

Egg Hunt - Inform your team to meet you at the office for a very important meeting at 8:30am sharp. Set up a chocolate egg hunt around your office, before you leave the night before the said meeting. Then put up crime scene tape on the door so no one enters in the morning. When they all arrive tell them there has been a reverse robbery and 100 chocolate eggs were hidden in the office, and they need to be found before then melt. Once they have found all the eggs team members tell one interesting fact about themselves for every egg they found.

Charity Chase - Pick one of your clients or local charities. Have a “volunteer day” and have your team work to help improve that clients position or service delivery. Help them by doing things on their “to do list” like painting rooms, building gardens or installing shelving. Or volunteer your teams expertise -- i.e. in building a strategic plan or doing some accounting for an NFP.

Mobile Car Wash - Hire a mobile car wash to come and clean all your teams cars while they are at work. Leave a hand written note in an envelope under their windshield washer thanking them for their help and great work.

Tail Gate Lunchbox - Bring in a pick up truck, bb-q and some root beers on ice. Set up in the parking lot crank some tunes, set out some lawn chairs and have a long lunch together. Eat some burgers, hot dogs and chips and celebrate your winning team or use the event to “open” up a new quarter of game (business) play.

Monet’s Canvas - Bring in some small canvasses, latex paint and some brushes and get each member of your team to paint a picture based on your “key question.” Some key questions you could use include: “Paint a picture of the strength you bring to the team, or paint a picture of where we will be as an organization in 5 years.” Combine those paintings together to form a patchwork quilt of your teams vision and hang it in your office.

Business of Sport - Take your team out to a semi pro or pro sporting event... After the game talk to your team about what they saw the teams doing right, what it took to win, and how that applies to your upcoming business pursuits. Use the game as a metaphor for business and continue the investment by sending cards with the game ball on it, make jerseys for team events, play a “team” theme song, etc.

Ice Cream Bar - Remember how you used to lose it when the ice cream truck came driving into town. Pick a hot summer day and wheel up a table with all the makings of a sundae bar... invite the team to shinny up to the bar and make a decadent treat.

Dunker Rooney - Throughout the week deliver a baseball to each of your team members and tell them that they are super important. Rent a dunk tank and have it delivered and covered in your company parking lot. Put a poster/sign on the target of one your your team goals for the quarter. Send a group email or text and have the group meet you down in the parking lot with their baseballs. Then, with you sitting on the dunk seat tell your team that you want them to hit the stated goal (aka target) so bad that you dare them to do it. When everyone has thrown their allotted balls talk about what it will take for the team to hit their goal.

Full Value Contract - Take out a piece of bristol board and markers and put them in the center of the group. Ask them to draw an icon of something that metaphors a group behavior that “we” need to do to make our team successful (i.e. ears for listening, weights for working hard, etc.) After each icon is drawn get the group to agree that that is something that they agree that their group needs to be successful. Once everyone has drawn and explained their drawing you will have an agreed to behavioral contract.

Business is a Gong Show - Set up a metal gong in the center of your sales team. Every time they make a sale they get to go up and hit the gong. You can support their success either by everyone else clapping and cheering or hand out kazoos or harmonicas and have everyone else join in a chorus of cacophony.

Scavenger Hunter - Compile a list of things that your team might be able to find on their person. At your meeting break the team into equal parts (3 to a team is great) and have them see how many of each item they can find in 5 minutes. Teams get a point for each item they find -- i.e. penny, cell phone, tissue, etc. Winning team gets a prize or just bragging rights.

Literature Group - Set up a book group at your work. Read professional writings and have discussion groups around the content of the book.

DJ’s Top 10 - Have a lunch and share of team members favorite music. Get one person every Friday to host the DJ’s Top 10 - where they share the top songs of their lifetime. Play snips of these songs together and send each member of the group an iTunes list of the songs or come up with another “imaginative way” of sharing the music without breaking copyright of course -- nudge nudge wink wink.

iDepth Tour - Have a different member of your team start your meeting by sharing their favorite “out of the way place” in cyberspace or their favorite App. The presenter gets 5 minutes to show why they love this cyberspacious place or the functionality/fun of the App.

Sumorama - Rent some inflatable sumo suits and have a bit of a battle royale. Teams that play together stay together.

Ahoy Mate - Set up a day to go sailing. You can learn allot about team work from the runnings of a sailing vessel... or for some more passive fun set up a treasure hunt and hire a sail boat to help you find the treasure. Make stations along the way with challenges that the team has to complete and make the “treasure” an outdoor bb-q on the beach. Fun in the sun.

Retro bowl - Get some really tacky bowling shirts made with your company logo and peoples names. Rent out the local bowling alley and hike down for a retro bowling tournament. Serve hot dogs and beer, crank a little Twisted Sister, and turn on the black lights to give this party a little “charm.”

Lanyard Bedazzling - Set your team apart from the others in your cubical nation by bedazzling your lanyards with plastic jewels and other bling. Make this the treasure at the end of a measurable business outcome and lock the bedazzler in a treasure chest for all to see. When you hit the goal crack it open and bedazzle each other!

Real Face Book - Take some photos of your team at a retreat, on the job, from their past, etc and compile a photo book of each other. Include some data about each team member like where they are from, what they do for the company and even quirky things. You can grab this information by sending out a quick “survey” before you start putting the book together. These are particularly good for teams working virtually... in fact it doesn’t even have to be printed now does it.

Tour de Trike - Grab a couple of trikes from the local bike shop and set up either a obstacle course in your parking lot or map out a route around the block for a race (make sure you ensure safe riding). Break the group up in teams and ride in the Tour de Trike.

I like you because... - Write those very simple words on the top of a piece of paper and photocopy enough for everyone in your team. Tape the paper on the backs of every person in your team. Pass out some markers and have people move from back to back answering the statement about why they like that individual.

Pot Luck - It works for churches, and associations why not your team? I like to ramp up the “traditional pot luck” and give some constraints for the dish they bring, i.e. must be from your country of origin, must use only 4 ingredients, has to contain all food groups, etc.

Bored Olympics - Go on line and find a site that has really easy to play games like bored.com. Then, invite your team to have a Olympic Game challenge by breaking into countries and tracking scores. Give out medals if you like or just dish out bragging rights. This is a great adaptation for virtual teams, just pick your favorite social networking site to post scores.

Intranet Hunt - Deposit some clues inside “client files” or other “shared work spaces” inside your intranet. Give team members clues as to where to find them. Then set them loose... first person to complete the intranet hunt wins.

Internet Hunt - Set up a challenge for your team to find a list of obscure items online... compile their findings in a PowerPoint or keynote presentation rip to PDF and send it to you... The person who finds the most wins. Great fun for virtual teams.

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Team Tip
Team building is what you do with people not to people.

Try kicking off your next meeting with this little icebreaker. Set up a scavenger hunt for obscure things that people can find without getting up from their seat.

You'll be interested to see what people bring with them in their brief cases, purses and pockets ; )

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2011-01-04T06:15:00.001-08:00

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2010-11-17T07:00:00.001-08:00

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Team Tip
Virtual teams should print a poster of the faces of each of the team members for members to post in their office space.

Try kicking off your next meeting with this little icebreaker. Ship a beer to each member in a box labeled do not open till instructed at meeting. Then have a "beer" together after the meeting.

Fun way to get together and have a "beer" for virtual teams ...

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2010-10-25T08:42:00.001-07:00

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We've been up to a whole bunch of good things over the past few months. We have a new website being launched at www.tylerhayden.com as well as we've just entered into a partnership to begin developing Apps for IPhone with a studio in Halifax and we moved our offices to Lunenburg.

Now if that wasn't enough we got busy over the past few months to respond to your requests for more team building activities that are "DIY" (do it yourself). So we have been busy in the workshop designing and building some really cool things for your to play with from a new Card Game called Team building 20 to a new book Team building with Intelligence and some new Debriefing and Icebreaker tool kits.

All of these and a whole bunch more in development will be available to you under our new brand called Team Mover. Hope you love conducting them with your team as much as we enjoyed making them.

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Team Tip
Team building is what you do with people not to people.

Try kicking off your next meeting with this little icebreaker. Have everyone share the ring tone they have on their phone and why they chose that one.

You'll be interested to see what you'll find out about people's personalities based on why they chose what they chose... and at the very least it's a great segway to remind them to turn their phone off ; )

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2B or not 2B. Isn't that the eternal question, are you going 2B or not 2B today. Will your efforts today build a legacy never forgotten?"

2009-03-24T08:39:00.001-07:00

“2B or not 2B. Isn’t that the eternal question, are you going 2B or not 2B today. Will your efforts today build a legacy never forgotten?”

How will you choose to utilize your efforts today. Our success is a direct result of our decision to be successful. Our health is a direct result of choosing to be healthy. Our teams and families are better because we choose 2B.

Stop procrastinating. See what is available to you today and explore it. Life is for Living Large and those that do so have chosen 2B!

Engagement Starts with Belonging

2009-01-15T11:51:00.000-08:00

I guess the New Year makes me nostalgic, as I reflect on past successes and get excited about upcoming opportunities. A friend of mine Ron Such sent me a note and reminded me about the first speaker I ever saw (when I was in High School). The speaker’s name was Mark Scharenbroich CSP, CPAE. Ron said that I should check out Mark’s new site (www.nicebike.com). So I did. And am I ever glad I did.

Mark talks about engagement as being the second level of Maslow’s Hierarchy – in short that engagement starts with belonging. Some of the ways that we can help people to belong are:

1. Recognize them for the Great things that the Do.

2. Address their Importance to You.

3. Tell them about how their Efforts are supporting the collective effort.

Go check out Mark’s new site... watch the video... it’s long... but it’s worth it.

Take care and make today a great day!

Tyler

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2008-10-28T16:47:00.000-07:00

Trust in a Time of Turmoil

We are definitely in a time of turmoil. Banks are having trouble. People are still fearful. But really, there are some upsides here too that the Nano Leader will take full advantage of.

We have weathered storms before. And our economy will be stronger for weathering this one too. Many of our companies have a bit of fluff that needs to be removed - and you should do it, carefully. Many of us have been trying to keep up with consumer demand that we haven't had the time to institute new technologies, training, and support for our staff.

Building trust should be our newest mantra.

Take the time to build trust in our employees. Show them that we are there for them. Show them that they matter to us. We listen and act on their suggestions. Have the team rally together and develop solutions that will build a stronger and healthier organization that will be increasingly competitive in what will be a very competitive emerging marketplace.

Look towards your business strengths. Who are your big team players? What are you USP's (unique selling propositions)? What idea do you have in the incubator that you'd like to try out? How can you use the state of global business to your advantage (IE the 25% reduction that US Companies could pay for your goods/services --- read new business). Who are your greatest clients? How can we get to know them better?

And finally, how can we use this time to breath and relax for the next frenzy that will be just around the corner.

Will your staff trust you? Will you have them around to take full advantage of the new rigorous economy...?

Market Mahem and Your Team

2008-10-10T05:26:00.001-07:00

We are in an interesting time in business. Just yesterday GM stock traded at the same levels as it did in the 1950’s. Every market is dropping in value by the trillions... do I need to go on... probably not unless you just crawled out from under a rock. What’s it all going to mean... I guess we just have to hold on and see where this crazy train goes.

I tell you one thing that is definitely going to happen. People inside your business are going to need some added reassurance to overcome this tumultuous time. It’s hard to watch the money you have worked hard to save become worth 20, 30, 40 and gulp even 50% less than it was only a few weeks ago. We are all human and that loss hurts and makes us respond in fearful ways – I’m not immune to it, I don’t think many people are.

How can we benefit from this downturn?

Well I can think of a few ways. One is picking up stocks into our portfolio that will valuate well when the markets start a normal climb again (hopefully sooner than later). And two is I think this can offer us the opportunity to remove some of the team members who aren’t adding as much value as we might need – to cost cut. And also to build stronger connection to those that do.

One of the cornerstones of Nano Teams is my Team Triad. This model is designed to create increased group engagement and retention. Check it out at the top of this post there is a diagram.

Right now as a team leader spend your time on the bedrock of this model. Build Trust and Belief within your team. Invest the time to develop increased Trust and Belief in your industry, your company, your leadership and each employee’s individual futures. Spending time now will help to generate long term value particularly in the younger employees. Their commitment level to your group will increase, which in turn will help to ease the pressure of them looking to find “better work”.

The Facebookers look strongly for that social interaction and connection. Now is the time to start to give it to them. Especially because they haven’t experienced a downturn in the economy, a recession or what could be more to come. Being their strength means building trust and belief in the social connection of your group.

Three easy things you can do:

1. Go for a Coffee – Spend some time this week with each of your employees listening to their concerns and fears. Ask how they are doing and listen in a caring manner. There is little solace we can provide right now other than simply listening. If you can help to mitigate a fear or reduce their stress in some way. Do it

2. Lunch Exercise – Invite a group of people to go with you for a walk today. Start a lunch time “fresh air” club. Exercise helps to reduce stress and will help your team to reconnect in some healthy ways. (Not to mention you can’t read the paper or listen to the news while you are walking with your team J).

3. Company Watch – Get to know your company. Share openly with your staff the good news about where the company is going. How it has weathered storms like this before. Start those good news artefacts or rumours churning around the office. Demonstrate what is working and what has worked before. Stay positive, realistic, and inspire others to think positively about the future.

Right now is when you earn your stripes as not just a manager/leader but also as a person. In next weeks post I’m going to talk more specifically about how to build Trust within your team.... so if you haven’t already signed up for a feed of my blogspot... do it now. Talk to you next week.

Take care and make today a great day!

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