Christopher Gergen: Leading with others to drive positive change
How can you create an extraordinary life in a world that is becoming more complex? How can you lead your community in a transformative way? ANSWER: Become a “life entrepreneur”. Christopher Gergen is the coauthor of Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives. Gergen says life entrepreneurs are ordinary people who integrate their life, work, and purpose […]
How to Build Team Trust with Susan Gerke & David Hutchens
NOTE: The recording and slide deck of this event are located in the TeachMeTeamwork.com Members Only Area. Membership is FREE. Join HERE. Trust is the bedrock of high performance. If the team has high trust, everything works better. And if not… well, almost everyone has a story to tell about that. In this free and […]
Crazy Busy, Leadership, and Teamwork
One of the challenges of being a team leader is becoming too busy (“crazy busy”). Being crazy busy is actually at epidemic proportions among team leaders. Patrick Lencioni suggests being crazy busy is a sign of “adrenaline addiction”. Here’s a great article from Tim Krieder at the New York Times entitled “The Busy Trap” If […]
Stormtroopers like Teamwork
These are images from the awesome www.365DaysofClones.com collection. When you’re up against a Jedi you better know how to work as a team!
Inspiring Story of Teamwork: The 9-11 Boatlift
Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuated half a million people from the stricken piers and seawalls of Lower Manhattan. BOATLIFT premiered on September 8th at the 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Summit: Remembrance/Renewal/Resilience in Washington. The Summit kicked off a national movement to foster community and national resilience in the face […]
Adventure Day: A Team and Leadership Development Experience for 5th Graders
NOTE: All of the Adventure Day lead-it-yourself resources are located in the TeachMeTeamwork.com Members Only Area. Membership is FREE. Join HERE At TeachMeTeamwork.com we provide teachings, tools and community to help people more fully realize the power of teamwork. Virtually everyone in our community is an adult and yet we know that when young people […]