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Team Spark: Proverb - Giving Up Too Easily

Team Spark: Proverb - Giving Up Too Easily

Spark team communication around tips for keeping the team focused and on task when facing challenges.

Activities Personal Performance Motivation, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - If Everyone Has The Responsibility; Nothing Gets Done

Team Spark: Proverb - If Everyone Has The Responsibility; Nothing Gets Done

Spark team communication on having specific ownership to help ensure a task is completed.

Activities Personal Performance Collaboration, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

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

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - Many Things Require People To Work Together to Achieve a Goal

Team Spark: Proverb - Many Things Require People To Work Together to Achieve a Goal

Spark team communication on the consequences if we try to complete a big project without excellent teamwork.

Activities Personal Performance Teamwork, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - People Judge Things from Their Experience Not the Wider World

Team Spark: Proverb - People Judge Things from Their Experience Not the Wider World

Spark team communication on how looking at something from just one perspective can impact the team.

Activities Personal Performance Teamwork, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder, Unconscious / Hidden Bias

Team Spark: Proverb - People Will Listen More If You Are Kind When Delivering the Message

Team Spark: Proverb - People Will Listen More If You Are Kind When Delivering the Message

Spark team communication on how kindness can help us achieve our desired end result on both projects and personal pursuits.

Activities Personal Performance Professionalism, Discussion Trigger, Respect / Respectfulness, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - Planning Needs to Be Paired with Action

Team Spark: Proverb - Planning Needs to Be Paired with Action

Spark team communication on we can empower the key action oriented team members to help us know when to move forward.

Activities Personal Performance Change

Team Spark: Proverb - Short-term Investments Result in Long Term Gains

Team Spark: Proverb - Short-term Investments Result in Long Term Gains

Spark team communication on how to balance our short and long term objectives (at the organization or project level).

Activities Personal Performance Goals and Goal Setting, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - Take Responsibility For The Results

Team Spark: Proverb - Take Responsibility For The Results

Spark team communication understanding the need to reevaluate how people are given responsibility.

Activities Personal Performance Collaboration, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - Title But No Authority

Team Spark: Proverb - Title But No Authority

Spark team communication on authority and how it can also be seen as influence.

Activities Personal Performance Effective Leadership, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

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

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - When You Solve One Problem, There Are Always More Problems

Team Spark: Proverb - When You Solve One Problem, There Are Always More Problems

Spark team communication on the complimentary skills that each person brings to the team that will help us to solve problems.

Activities Personal Performance Problem Resolution, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - Work With What You Have

Team Spark: Proverb - Work With What You Have

Spark team communication on being creative and getting the job done with limited resources.

Activities Personal Performance Change

Team Spark: Proverb - Working Together You Can Achieve More

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.

Activities Personal Performance Teamwork, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Proverb - You Are Limited by What Ties You Down

Team Spark: Proverb - You Are Limited by What Ties You Down

Spark team communication on how have we faced limitations in the past and yet overcome them.

Activities Personal Performance Collaboration, Communication, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder

Team Spark: Teach Team Shorthand to New Team Members

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Tell Stories to Build Strong Communities

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Understand Your Expertise

Team Spark: Understand Your Expertise

Diverse teams with members from different backgrounds will offer an even greater variety of expertise and personalities. While it may take an increased amount of respect and awareness to work in concert, the team has a greater potential for victory.

Activities Personal Performance Collaboration, Discussion Trigger, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Use a Mediator to Help Stalemates

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork

Team Spark: Use Intuition to Foster Better Teamwork

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.

Activities Personal Performance Communication, Discussion Trigger, Interpersonal Skills, Team Builder, Teamwork