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Team Spark: Cross-Pollinate to Spark Innovation

Within companies and teams, employees have the important role of sharing ideas between groups, departments, and teams. This “cross-pollination” of ideas helps to unlock the inherent creativity and innovation that lies within a company, but may need a spark from another source to bring it to life.

Topic: Communication Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Find the Common Beat

Similar to a band with many different instruments playing together, a diverse team consists of many different personalities working together. While this diversity allows for innovation and creativity, it also makes it more difficult for team members to keep the same tempo. It is the role of the team member with the drummer personality to keep everyone communicating and completing tasks on time.

Team Spark: Proverb - Don't Waste Your Efforts

Spark team communication around project or product completion.

Team Spark: Proverb - Each Person Is Unique

Spark team communication around how we can use our unique skills and abilities more effectively as individuals, or as a team.

Team Spark: Proverb - Everyone Makes Mistakes

Spark team communication around how to handle mistakes when they are made.

Team Spark: Proverb - If You Don't Communicate, You'll Get Burned

Spark team communication on what we can do to better communicate with people inside and outside of the team.

Team Spark: Proverb - When You Fight Amongst Yourselves, Others Win

Spark team communication on getting caught up among ourselves so much that we lose focus on the big picture.

Team Spark: Proverb - Working Together You Can Achieve More

Spark team communication on how we can work better as a team when we face our large projects.

Topic: Teamwork Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Teach Team Shorthand to New Team Members

Most work teams tend to develop their own compressed language that allows team members to communicate quickly and easily with each other. When outsiders join the team, this shorthand may be hard to understand or learn, resulting in conflict and frustration, especially if people are from different cultural backgrounds.

Team Spark: Tell Stories to Build Strong Communities

Storytelling is at the heart of what makes us human and is a universal tool used by groups of people to explain who they are and the experiences that shaped their history. While we might not use cave drawings anymore, we still use storytelling to capture collective histories and lessons learned.

Team Spark: Use a Mediator to Help Stalemates

Asking for the assistance of a “referee” or a neutral, third party colleague, may provide the necessary insight to tease out the cause of the miscommunication, which could be rooted in cultural, generational, or personality style differences.

Team Spark: Use Intuition to Foster Better Teamwork

When you devote time and effort to communicating with a colleague, especially one from a background different than your own, you can improve the fluency of your communication and eventually be able to detect minute changes in these communications.

Understanding Difficult People

This is a great exercise to introduce the concept of the different types (in the 'difficult' range) of people we'll most often interact with in the workplace.

Topic: Interpersonal Skills Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Collaboration, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Professionalism, Teamwork

Discussion Card: Difficult Conversations

Having a crucial discussion with coworkers and/or employees could mean the difference between resolving an issue or disrupting a relationship. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (S.O.R.T. O.U.T.) along with thought-provoking questions on better understanding & addressing conflict. Great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Topic: Communication Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Discussion Cards Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management, Professionalism

Life is a Series of Presentation - Introduction

Introduces the concept that life is a series of presentations.

Topic: Communication Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Video Introduction Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism, Sales & Service Closed Captioned

Ready. Set. CHANGE! - Opening

An introduction on adapting to a restructure change within the workplace.

Topic: Change Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Video Introduction Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Closed Captioned

Clarify. Communicate. Commit.

Summary of process involved in productively responding to change.

Topic: Change Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Video Summary Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Closed Captioned

Conflict 101™ - The Bottom Line

There’s no doubt that dealing with conflict is challenging but may not always be easy. But, it’s important to learn how-to-deal with “conflict” in a healthy and positive way.

Topic: Conflict Resolution Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Video Summary Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Professionalism Closed Captioned

I Can A.C.E. That Problem

Review and reinforce the A.C.E. It!™ problem-solving model.

Topic: Interpersonal Skills Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Video Summary Suggested Industry Usage: Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General Other Topics: Change, Communication, Effective Leadership, Sales & Service Closed Captioned

Johnny the Bagger® - Final Thought

How to provide service from the heart

Topic: Customer Service Learning Path: Personal Performance Type: Video Summary Suggested Industry Usage: Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Change, Communication, Customer Service, Interpersonal Skills, Motivation, Professionalism