Open-office floorplans, those gleaming, spacious workspaces emblematic of Silicon Valley productivity and flat organizational hierarchies are no longer a radical, avant garde approach to structuring office spaces, but rather the
As an adult, your first day on the job is about as close as you can get to re-living the first day of school. There are a bunch of new
Huddling up isn’t just for sports teams, it works great in business, too. Here at Adventure Associates we have a morning huddle every day. For us it’s a quick, highly-directed
Meetings often feel like one of the ring’s in Dante’s infamous journey, a sort of business life purgatory fraught with Dilbert-esque absurdity and frustration. But whether you like it or
If you ever played sports or a musical instrument, then you know how much these endeavors revolve around practice. Hours and hours of practice. Despite the fact that tournament games
Team building events, motivational books, communication classes — they all leave us with a wealth of information and excited about the things we’ve learned. Upon finishing with any of these
The concept of feedback is something that comes up often in our team building and corporate training programs, and nine time out of ten, participants say that they want their
Unless you’re in a tiny startup or mom ‘n pop small biz, large groups are the norm for most organizations. These might be departments, divisions, or teams — and if
Email has pervaded almost every moment of our working lives. If we’re not writing emails, we’re watching them stack up in our virtual inboxes, which are full of messages ranging
We’re a species of walkers. Evolutionarily, we have spent the bulk of our development in nomadic tribes, walking the earth in search of resources, using our spatial reasoning skills to
We’re all in sales, like it or not. And most of us don’t like it. When we hear the word sales we often conjure up images of oh-so-smug and sleazy
Steve Jobs’ legendary hiring practices and recruiting philosophies — which he developed over the course of five thousand separate interviews — were iconically captured in the following quote (you can