Feb 21, 2019

How Cohesive is Your Team? Trust + Conflict + Commitment + Accountability + Results

by Cindy Crean     


List of 5 Behaviors of a cohesive team
Include True North’s Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Workshop in your next team meeting or offsite.  Our experiential-learning workshop helps to bring your team together.  This workshop focuses on the key elements of a cohesive team: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results.  Using the Everything DiSC assessment as a foundation, team members learn about themselves as well as the rest of the team.  Everyone learns how to make their day-to-day interactions more effective.  Things like productive conflict and vulnerability-based trust are addressed head-on.  The end result is how to get the best out of everyone.  This is a really insightful one or three-day workshop.  Give us a shout today to learn more.

Feb 7, 2019

Looking to Order Everything DiSC® Assessments? True North can help...

by Cindy Crean     


Looking to order Everything DiSC® Workplace Assessments for an upcoming training meeting, a new hire orientation or for cultivating your corporate culture?  Let True North be your go-to organization for all of your Everything DiSC® needs.  We offer a number of assessments to compliment many kinds of learning and development sessions, including:

        The Everything DiSC® Workplace Assessment — see sample below

Everything DiSC Workplace Report Sample

Click here to get more information on Everything DiSC® Workplace Workshops.

To order individual or bulk quantities of Everything DiSC® online assessments, please contact us today:

1.203.730.0606  or  email: ourteam@truenorthteambuilding.com

 

Jun 21, 2018

Unlocking Creative Genius Artist Erik Wahl Tells Us How to Revive Our Passion

by Cindy Crean     


Unlock Your Creative Genius: 4 Steps to being provocative with a purpose

This Fast Company post by author Ekaterina Walter addresses how to maintain and apply an active imagination into your adult life. To do this, we must become provocative. Graffiti artist Erik Wahl says you can become more provocative “by constantly looking for obstacles to growth and opportunities for progress regardless of your daily duties—you can provide your company with a measure of critical preparation it doesn’t currently have.” Wahl distills the importance of the artist in the fact that the artist doesn’t wait until (s)he is directly provoked but provokes her/himself and those around her/him. This process helps bring about the improvement of vestigial ideas or processes within your company that have been reinforced by their normality. True North Team Building offers many Learning programs that can help your company to become more curious which in turn stimulates the rethinking of old ideas.

creative genius

May 16, 2018

The Significance of Stress At Work And Some Ways to Circumvent It

by Cindy Crean     


Proof That Positive Work Cultures are More Productive 

This succinct article by Harvard Business Review provides some very telling information about the impact of stress on work life. One of the most striking among the facts revealed is a study done by The American Psychological Association estimates that more than $500 billion is siphoned off from the U.S. economy because of workplace stress, and 550 million workdays are lost each year due to stress on the job. The article recommends the following strategies to avoid stress: foster social connections, go out of your way to help, show empathy and encourage others to talk to you. True North Team Building offers plenty of programs to combat stress and to reinforce your company’s values. Further, any of our Play team events do a great job of loosening the stress-causing psychological grip of technology over your employees.

 

stress at work

May 16, 2018

How to Leave Your Comfort Zone And Why It’s Important To

by Cindy Crean     


LifeHacker “Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone”

In this lifehacker blog post, author Alan Henry discusses the importance of pushing yourself beyond the limits of your ‘comfort zone’. He admonishes the complacency of neglecting to try new things and falling back on old habits. In his guide to how to leave your comfort zone and why you should, Henry brings up “Optimal Anxiety”. Optimal anxiety is the idea that you need a small amount of stress to perform at your best. Optimal anxiety can be exploited in a work environment to help create a more productive space. Research cited in the article suggests that without enough risk or unfamiliarity involved in a task, workers can easily fall into a steady and sluggish pace or even apathy. True North Team Building offers programs (like Chain Reaction) that will allow you to see how your employees flourish when confronted with new and semi-stressful challenges. These programs are designed to give your company ideas about how a more dynamic workplace is more conducive to success.

May 15, 2018

The Chalk Art by Peter Han & The Surprisingly Valuable Work Ethic Behind It

by Cindy Crean     


Peter Han Chalk Art

SnowGlobe Studios’ short film, “Pardon My Dust: The Chalk Art of Peter Han” speaks volumes on the creative potential behind two things: not being afraid to let go and taking the ‘biggest strokes’ first. Han teaches students to practice drawing on the impermanent medium of the chalkboard to avoid attachment/excessive self-praise. He also says that it can be limiting to fixate on the details initially; you should instead get the biggest concepts down first and work backwards from there. These ideas are easily applicable to the workplace and are endlessly fruitful for self-improvement. True North Team Building offers many programs that help instill these values.