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Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business

Women on Business

Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development , founder of the Stop The Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. However, decisions are not being made, communication is stifled, and every so often, a major blow-up finds team members screaming at each other in the middle of practice. Conflict has a bad reputation.

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5 tips on how team bonding can assist to build a solid company culture

Strategy Driven

Research also supports this as a LinkedIn survey shows that 65% of employees would work for a lesser pay and forgo a fancy job title rather than deal with a bad work environment. Building a positive organizational culture is beyond occasional perks and monetary benefits. Fosters personal interactions among team members.

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How to Win in Business By Playing Your Best Golf

Strategy Driven

Golf has always been synonymous with business networking, mastering team-building skills and for developing working relationships. In a relaxed setting, golf has evolved as an opportune sport to evaluate vital qualities prized by business investors, colleague and potential clients, such as: personal drive.

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Leadership and Teamwork

Lead on Purpose

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Follow these tips to promote a successful workplace that motivates team members and ultimately drives up productivity and profits. Avoid micromanaging.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. One of my favorite examples of what I described in the paragraph above is the weak leader who cannot deal with subordinates who use emotional deceit as a weapon of destruction.

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Effective Workplace Communication Tips For Remote Teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Team members who work remotely face communication challenges every day. Regular communication between teams can lead to higher job satisfaction, which reduces absenteeism, sick days, and turnover. Communication can be tricky to master in remote teams, but it is not impossible. Remote teams have unique communication needs.

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

According to Doody, the key is to stop thinking in binary terms of “good” and “bad” outcomes and optimize for learning, instead. Thinking of outcomes as a spectrum rather than “good” or “bad” (5:13). Good” and “bad” are subjective terms when it comes to experimentation (32:39). Marcus: I love the sports metaphor.