Programs
Team Building with Humor
Did
your workplace used to be fun? Has downsizing, rightsizing, and streamlining
or re-inventing created an atmosphere of stress and tension? Is there less
cooperation and more competition among co-workers? How can you have a sense
of humor and still get your work done? Will bringing laughter to work really
make a difference?
Steve Kissell encourages each person to make every day "Take Your Laughter to Work Day". Steve offers practical, fun and inexpensive ideas to add clean humor to your workplace. Team Building with Humor will assist your organization in learning methods to increase motivation, creativity and cooperation. Steve uses audience participation and activities for a hands-on learning approach to instructing team members on how to reduce conflict, improve employee morale, establishing a workable internal networking system, and increasing job performance.
Objectives
- Create an environment of success for your team
- Reduce conflict and stress in the workplace
- Improve employee relations - The program promotes teamwork by removing the boundaries between management and staff in order to reach a common goal.
- Enable workers to invest in leadership skills
- Establish opportunities for networking
- Maximize staff productivity
- Learn "The Ten Points of Life" Team Building.
More from Steve!
The following is an article by Steve titled "Managing
Conflict for Positive Results".
On any healthy team, conflict is common, useful, even helpful. Without it, groups become complacent, bad ideas go unchallenged, and team members are less than honest with one another. But how do you keep conflict from getting out of hand? Follow these tips to keep conflict from turning destructive:
Focus on ideas, not people. If someone in the group comes up with a bad idea, encourage team members to question the worth of the idea, not the competence of the planner. Don't say "Jim's suggestions will put us five days behind schedule." Better: "Let's discus this. We may have some scheduling problems."
Acknowledge every idea's merits. When group debate heats up, calm the waters by singling out the team member who's most upset and acknowledging the merits of his position. Example: "I can see the advantage of George's view; for example (list one or two). But I'd like to suggest another line of thinking."
Use smoothing statements. Don't let team members take sides. Encourage them to consider the other side's arguments. Examples: "Maybe there's another interpretation..." "What about the possibility that..."
Get some distance. If you can't get the group to reach consensus, it might be time to step back and analyze the situation. Review your team members' thinking so far. This gives you time to regroup, to suggest revisions, to raise questions, and to challenge your team members to do the same.
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"As always, your Team Building presentation was exceptional.
As a
meeting planner, it's always stressful selecting speakers. Sometimes you
just don't get what you expected. You, on the other hand, delivered far
more than I expected. People are still thanking me for bringing you in!
This is the ultimate acknowledgment of a job well done."
Bill Ketterer, The MASH Program, Texas
"We were interested in presenting the staff with information they could apply in their professional settings, while giving them the treat of a day of laughter. You did a wonderful job of combining usable information with a fun approach."
Cathee J. Huber
RN MN Ph.D.
Asst. Director for Nursing Education