Team Leader Handbooks
Facilitate Don't Frustrate
Working together involves meeting together. While team thinking time is essential to plan, solve, evaluate, and create, most of our clients find meetings frustrating and wasteful. This team leader handbook offers practical and proven tips for facilitating team meetings in ways that balance participation, deepen discussions, enhance creativity, and reach sustainable decisions as a team.
Playing Like A Team
If you are like most team leaders we work with in business, government, education, or the nonprofit sector who want to utilize more team building activities throughout the year but are unsure which ones work best, you will enjoy this resource. It's a collection of 25 of our favorite experiential team building activities in an easy-to-reference format along with helpful facilitation tips for getting the most out of your team building experience. Plato said it best, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation".
Making The Connection
During years of consulting with executives and their teams, we realized what is true of groups in the marketplace is true of groups in ministry: Little else matters if people don't first feel connected to one another. Education does not. Experience does not. Skill does not. These are all important individual attributes but they don't affect the group's vitality until a connection is realized. Without feeling connected, people may attend our small groups but will they be engaged? This reference guide was developed when Deb was asked to teach a course on Group Dynamics for Our Daily Bread Christian University. The course is available at no charge at the link below: