Are You Engaging Your Team, or Just the People Who Work Like You?
You leave a brainstorming meeting feeling pleased. The conversation flowed, ideas filled the whiteboard and several people were keen to take the next step. From your seat, it looked like strong team engagement. But what did the meeting feel like from the other seats?...
Why Is Team Morale Important for Workplace Performance
Team morale is important because it influences how people approach their work and one another. When employees feel valued, supported and confident in their team, they have stronger reasons to share ideas, ask for help and contribute to a common goal. When morale...
Play at Work: Why Adults Stop and How Leaders Bring It Back
Why do adults stop playing at work? Usually, it is not because they have lost their imagination. It is because the workplace has taught them to hide it. Picture a junior marketer sketching an untested campaign route in a meeting. Halfway through, they pull back and...
Five Perth Team Building Venues I Recommend
Perth gives us a lot to play with. We can take a team from a conference room to the sand at Scarborough, bring them together among the sounds of Perth Zoo, or give them room to reset on Rottnest Island. I love finding a setting that changes how people feel when they...
How Often Should Companies Do Team Building?
How often should companies do team building? At least once every quarter. Three months is enough time for a team to change. New people arrive, priorities shift, pressure builds and communication habits begin to slip. Quarterly team building gives people a regular...
Team Building After a Restructure That Works
A restructure can be completed on paper long before it is working in practice. Reporting lines change, roles move and departments merge, but people still carry the habits, loyalties and uncertainty of the old structure into the new one. The organisation may have a new...
Conference Team Building Activities That Fit Any Event
Conference organisers rarely get ideal conditions. A room designed for presentations suddenly needs to support conference team building activities, hundreds of people must be included and a single session is expected to lift the energy of the entire agenda. The...
Team Bonding Activities for Schools That Build Culture
Late January in a school is rarely calm. Leaders are finalising staffing, teachers are adjusting to new year levels or responsibilities, and students are entering classes with different faces, routines and expectations. With so much attention on timetables, compliance...