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15 Apr 5 Quick Quarantine Team-Building Ideas

Posted at 23:25h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Team Retreats, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Team-building activities usually get a bad rap – and it’s often deserved. Just think of the teams subjected to doing trust falls or baring their souls in a drum circle. But in this time of quarantine, most teams could use a little building. The stress of...

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15 May Talent Trends: Do You Have the Skills You Need?

Posted at 23:44h in Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Mercer recently released their Global Talent Trends 2019 report and there is a ton of great information on talent trends in it for talent management pros and leaders of any organization who want to know what’s coming. Mercer’s research indicates that thriving organizations are “human-led and...

11 Apr Virtual Training for Virtual Teams

Posted at 02:01h in Coaching, Creativity, DiSC, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

We recently completed a highly successful training program for a well-known, global Fortune 200 company. Now, we do a lot of training in person and we love meeting and training teams and leaders face-to-face in their own space. But when you are hired to do...

21 Mar Spring Break for your Team! Avoid These 6 Team Retreat Fails

Posted at 12:50h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Team Retreats, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Will it be Ft. Lauderdale, South Padre Island or Vail? (Or am I dating myself with those options? ;-) Spring Break is a wonderful tradition that gives students (and families!) a break from the books and take time to recharge. Those benefits also work for work teams. Let...

13 Feb The Cost of Caring: How to Avoid Compassion Fatigue at Work

Posted at 21:38h in Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Being an empathetic leader is hard. It’s so much easier to be cynical, narcissistic, self-serving, perpetually blameless and aggressively competitive. We see a lot of that behavior in leadership these days. Of course, those kinds of toxic leaders, create toxic cultures. More than ever, we need...