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Team Spark: Craft Your Message With Purpose

Communication across differences is often done in a similar fashion. However, taking time to think about who, when, and how a message will be received allows the sender to craft a much more effective message that will produce much better results.

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: Create Structure to Help Bridge Barriers

The lack of face-to-face interaction reduces the team’s ability to adjust and adapt as quickly as a team that is located all at one site. In situations like this, having a clearly defined structure detailing everyone’s role and responsibilities is a key to success.

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.

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: Pay Attention To Nonverbal Communication

Colleagues in the workplace communicate both verbally and non-verbally. Understanding how to interpret their nonverbal communication can be a great advantage. The meaning of body language and facial expressions may vary from culture to culture, so it is always good to check for understanding.

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.

Discussion Card: Leadership

Are you leveraging the true power of leadership within you team? With your employees? Being a good leader isn't rocket science, but it takes skill... and patience... and practice. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (L.E.A.D.E.R.) along with thought-provoking questions on better understanding what it takes to truly lead. These cards are great for a quick training reminder, reinforcement or as a conversation generator.

Topic: Successfully Leading Others Learning Path: Leadership Type: Discussion Cards Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication & Influencing, Effective Leadership, Learning Reinforcement, Management, Teamwork

Discussion Card: Nonverbal Communication

Did you know that 55% of communication with others happens without words? That means your body language is key in your daily conversations. These easy-to-use cards provide a simple model (W.A.T.C.H.) along with thought-provoking questions to help learners understand the importance of nonverbal communication - helping leaders, managers and supervisors address individual or team issues. These cards are 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: Communication & Influencing, Successfully Leading Others, Learning Reinforcement, Teamwork, Training Activities

Five Completely Sane People

It's sometimes tough bringing a group of diverse and free-thinking individuals together on a team - and expect them to immediately gel. This video demonstrates the work needed to get the best from a multi-generational team. Includes varying views of appropriate business etiquette.

Topic: Diversity Dynamics Learning Paths: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, Leadership Type: Video Vignettes Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication, Compliance, Generational Challenges, Inclusion / Equity / Belonging, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Management, Professionalism, Respect / Respectfulness, Teamwork Closed Captioned

Courage 2 Coach™

Let's face it. Being a manager these days is tough. We've all got a lot on our plate, and there are days when some of the people we manage seem to have a hard time with the concept of "common sense." And, as competitive as the job market is these days…it’s difficult to attract and retain good people. The only thing that works is having the courage to coach.

Topic: Coaching & Mentoring Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Off-The-Shelf Video Program (ILT) Suggested Industry Usage: Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Effective Leadership, Professionalism Closed Captioned

Training Activities Package

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A package of over twenty activities designed to encourage longevity of skills. Use this activity bundle to support skill development and to help turn appropriate actions into habits for maximum long-term impact.

Topic: Training Activities Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality, Government Other Topics: Team Builder or Retention Aid, Training Activities, Training Ideas

Dealing with Conflict: Common Fight, Flight & Freeze Responses

Help employees and co-workers understand the responses observed in the workplace when someone was presented with a challenge that provoked an emotional reaction.

Topic: Conflict Resolution Learning Paths: Leadership, Personal Performance Type: Activities Suggested Industry Usage: Healthcare, Industrial & Manufacturing, Office & General, Retail & Hospitality Other Topics: Training Activities, Training Ideas, Training Support

Team Spark: Proverb - Be Creative

Spark team communication around supporting team members when they choose to set their own course in how they complete work.

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

Team Spark: Proverb - Be Patient

Spark team communication around being patient and giving a project time to move forward - allowing for greater creativity or innovation.

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