From Jim Collins, author of Good to Great
leadership
Cincinnati, OH – For the second straight year, I’ve worked with emerging leaders as part of the Asian Pacific Americans group at a Fortune 25 Company. This year we had two activities, one for team-building and the other for skill-building.
The first was a storytelling session around a camp fire. It was a casual event where we talked about the value of storytelling and some basic ideas to keep in mind, and then just shared stories to learn more about each other.
The second activity the next morning was on motivating leadership. We followed the HTW standard format of Theory -> Practice -> Application and by the end had the participants practicing leadership skills in work specific scenarios.
UPDATE: I received a message from one of the planners with feedback on the event:
- 100% of attendees rated the session Excellent (5 out of 5).
- It was the highest rated event of the entire week.
- There were a few great verbatims: “This was the best day of all.” “Awesome!” “We’ve already recommended you for next year’s session.”
Thanks go to all of the awesome participants. To see if this would work for your group, check out our corporate humor programs to find out more.
If you’re correctly applying humor at work, one of the groups you’ll be talking to is HR. Not because they’ll be scolding you for taking a break at 3pm to run down a Slip N Slide in the company’s front lawn, but because they’ll be yearning to learn more about the amazing benefits of humor.
With that in mind, I have the pleasure of hosting this week’s Carnival of HR–a gathering of awesome HR-related posts from around the web. Check out the below links for topics ranging from leadership to teambuilding to chickens (sorta). And be sure to follow these folks on Twitter or RSS–they have some amazing blogs and are just the kind of people you’ll need to know when you have to explain to HR why pulling an office prank on your CEO is totally a good idea.
- 10 Engagement-Building Behaviors for the Boss – Who’s the Boss? Here’s what you and Tony Danza can do to get better results from your team.
- Accidents Will Happen – As is the case with improv, depending on how you handle accidents afterwards, they are no longer accidents.
- Are Men In HR Going the Way of the Dinosaur? – Interesting question to consider about HR. 80% women attendees? I knew I should have majored in HR instead of Computer Science.
- The Art of Saying No – Why “Just Say No” isn’t just for D.A.R.E.
- Be Bodacious: Put Life in Your Leadership book review – Thoughts on how a book that includes chicken catching and chicken eating is great for leadership.
- Become Unnoticeable to Be Noticed – Getting noticed in the corporate world means doing the “non-sexy” work exceptionally well.
- Connecting, Building Relationships and Team Success – Just like good improv, good companies and projects focus on relationships.
- Creating Online Content and #socialrecruiting – Why creating online content is good, even if it’s LOLcats.
- Don’t Pick My Pocket Just Because I’m Female – Wo(ah)man, that’s not right–even in female dominated professions men are still paid disproportionately more money.
- Everyone has their own Trevor – Why “your cat not letting you do your work” is no longer a good excuse.
- Five Ways to Disarm an Angry Mob – AKA delivering not-necessarily-happy news. Does not cover how to create the angry mob.
- Getting the Most Out of International Assignments – Improving the value of international assignments regardless of currency, except Monopoly money.
- HR Technology Conference – It’s Just Around The Corner. Are You Ready? – HR Technology Conference reminder, be there or be without awesome HR technology.
- Infinite Choice – The “Analog vs Digital” argument for decision-making.
- Leadership Development: Executive Self-Assessment – Pop quiz, hot shot! An informative assessment on leadership development.
- M&A Observations: StepStone Solutions Acquires MrTed — Who’s Next – Thoughts on happenings in the talent management software market.
- The Problem is Likely Not the Person Pointing Out The Problem – Further exploration as to why you shouldn’t shoot the messenger, even if it is ICQ.
- Seven Ways to Build Rapport Anytime – Rap-port isn’t just a dock for hip hop music. Here’s how to build the other kind of rapport.
- Teamwork or Talent? – Why Teamwork and Talent are both important and why I don’t want to hang out with Oz.
- Three Reasons Why Small Companies Do Not Use Pre Employment Hiring Assessments – The title says it all.
- Top 10 Reasons Why HR Professionals Should Use Metrics – I, too, am all for the metric system (both in terms of measuring results and the system of measurement).
- Training Series: Calling Yourself a “Trainer” doesn’t make you one – Some good thoughts on training, kind of like the corporate version or “a house is not a home.”
- Uncle Joe’s Employee Engagement Funda – Kick Once Kiss Thrice – What you can learn about leadership from a interesting, old, Indian shopkeeper.
- Understanding Employee Turnover – The costs of turnover. Apple turnover is $1.99.
- Voluntary vs Involuntary – Not about turnover this time – Avoid coworkers screaming “TMI! TMI!” after a story about your weekend by thinking about if they are a voluntary or involuntary friend.
- Well Duckie, we’re only as lucky as the next net job. – No it’s not about the rules of “Duck Duck Goose” but rather a compelling look at the job market.
- What’s Your IQ? – Discussion on some of the misconceptions of innovation, such as the fact that INN-ovation is not about enthusiastic responses about hotels…
- Where I rant about Immigration Laws… – “I-9.” “Bingo!” — An HR perspective on Immigration Law.
That’s it for this week’s edition of the Carnival of HR. Round of applause for the authors, well done.
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