Here is the best team building game to increase performance in any size company, Cards Against Mundanity. It will also increase retention, creativity, collaboration, and communication. You’ll see a noticeable difference in 45 minutes. More than 100 organizations from Fortune 100 to very small business are using the game to build higher performing team. Executive teams, Board of Directors, Sales Teams, Human Resources teams, Operations teams, Marketing and PR teams, and more have already played it.
It’s free and comes with instructions and takes five minutes to set up. You can use it across multiple teams and accrue the results even when people aren’t in the same room. You can also use it over Zoom with remote teams.
Here are three example cards from The Cards Against Mundanity team building game.
I’ve studied and interviewed hundreds of successful managers and leaders over the past two years. I’ve seen psychological safety is the number one factor in every single high performing team.
Google found that same thing out in Project Aristotle where they studied their top 180 teams over a three year period and looked at more than 250 factors.
Here is a document Google created on how to foster psychological safety in teams. It’s worth a read. Check it out below.
“Every day you work is a performance review. Treat it like that and you’ll see much better results.”
Performance reviews aren’t a once a year, once a quarter or once a month activity. It’s made up of what you do every single day.
Yes, you will have good and bad days. Setbacks and failures. But you’ll increase your engagement and look at each day differently if you treat it as important and meaningful.
Leadership is at the worst level in history. Training isn’t working although spending reached $50B. Only 14% of executives say they have the talent to execute their business strategies. 4 out of 10 technology executives have NEVER done a performance review. Poor leadership is killing all your metrics and money. Help is NOT on the way. Training is broken because it’s not attacking the root cause -poor self-awareness. I explain why this is.
The Global Leadership Forecast 2018 report by DDI, EY and Conference Board interviewed 25000 executives and 2500 HR leaders and notes the crisis in leadership.
The issue alone isn’t training. The challenge is more on the self-awareness side. Your level of self-awareness is never greater than your social-awareness. Most leaders are self-awareness is very poor. In fact, I’d say that number in the 90th percentile. It’s because their blind spots and poor habits derail their organizational success.
Change comes down to pattern recognition and then typically making small changes, 1-2% to get you massive lift and ROI. It’s pretty rare you have to do some major modifications.
I go into why this is and why if you don’t focus on self-awareness (first) all training either fails or gives you incremental change at best.
I give you an example of a CEO I recently worked with and how I dealt with his poor listening skills affecting the bottom line.
Hope you enjoyed, “Why Leadership Training Isn’t Working.”
Sorry, the video cut off at the end (technology!).
It’s always nice to see great feedback on your work. Social Wealth is a how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships. There isn’t any fluff just actionable strategies and tactics that anyone can do (including extroverts).
More than 50,000 have used the book to build great business relationships. You can get at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Social-Wealth-Extraordinary-Relationships-Transforming-ebook/dp/B00N9CA1QY/ref=nodl_
Here is my 2017 TEDxWilmington speech, “How to Get CoWorkers to Like Each Other.” I discuss how to build a high performing team quickly, along with data and research I collected over the last two years. I share my free team building game, Cards Against Mundanity, that you can use to increase performance, creativity and collaboration in 45 minutes or less.
I included the transcript below.
You may not realize it, but some of you are sitting on the secret to “showing up at work.”
Now, you might say, “Hey! I show up to work every day!”
But that’s not what I mean. I mean being heard, seen, even cared for at work.
And why would that matter? It’s the #1 challenge facing companies today. Almost 70% of US workers are disengaged.
And it’s costing businesses $550 billion in lost productivity.
Listen…I know I am not telling you anything that’s not shocking here.
