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Is creating a work culture that promotes employee engagement important? The answer to this question can be yes for some, but maybe a no for others. However, there is no denial of the fact that employee engagement is a foundational piece to the success of your business. Being a manager or supervisor, who would you prefer to work with – an employee who yawns during meetings or an employee who is actively participating? The answer is simple: the more engaged employee.

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Imagine this: your flight just landed and now you’re on your way to the annual team offsite – a time to let down your hair and have some fun in a new city! But then a feeling of sadness creeps in… you know you have a team building activity planned and you don’t want to spend the next day in a conference room.

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At the beginning of the financial year, most organizations set new goals and form teams to deliver the projects. The goals usually differ from one year to the next, but what remains constant is the reliability of teams to deliver. This ongoing need for a solid team shows how important it is for a company to understand teamwork and develop a powerful team.

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Teamwork is a great thing. But it’s not the thing that makes teams great. Being a team comes from so much more than the idea of working together simply because you are in the same company, go to the same office, or work on the same project. Great teams come from companies that are bound together by more than financial goals or physical proximity. The best teams tend to be extremely diverse in many ways, but there is still something that is common between team members: values.

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As professionals in the teambuilding and facilitation space, we have the opportunity to run exciting, out of the box activities that bring teams closer together while allowing for meaningful ideas to arise. But before an idea makes it to the execution stage, we need to also explain the why for each activity.

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OPEN UP & CLOSE IN
It was 3 hours into the session and the participants’ eyes were moistening; some were openly dabbing away the stray tears that refused to be confined. It was past 10pm, well past the official timeline set by the leader to wrap up, however no one was in a hurry to leave. They were all glued to their seats.

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We all like to have some keepsake of our happy moments. Photos and video are the most common ways to capture memories. For making a video, you need to carry a camera, a laptop with video editing software, and of course you need your team. With these ingredients, you can definitely make a team video. Before the gathering starts, decide upon what kind of video is desired – what should the overall essence of the video be? There is lots of video editing software available that enables one to edit a video using different themes. If it’s a team video there would likely be some sort of action happening in that meeting, get together, or offsite. Be clear upon the agenda and just get started!

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Management Lessons From The Navy SEALs
After reading the book “Extreme Ownership: How US Navy SEALs Lead and Win,” I was in awe of the tools and strategies used by one the world’s elite forces to succeed in the most hostile environments. From taking decisions in the midst of heavy bombing to executing missions in IED (Improvised Explosive Device) laid areas, managing a team of high performing Navy SEALs is a task every SEAL Commander must master.

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