Characteristics of Effective Teams
Great teams achieve great things but it doesn’t happen by magic, it takes hard work and commitment. Effective teams have a range of characteristics that set them apart from the rest.
A number of clients have recently been bringing us in to help energise their team after a challenging few years in the Aberdeen marketplace.
Here are some of our thoughts on energising your team.
Going for Gold - Getting a Head Start in the Office Olympics
Are you a medal-winning employee or an also-ran? Can you last the distance, or do you frequently fall at the first hurdle? The same qualities that make an athlete great can make you a top employee.
See if you can spot your colleagues, and yourself, amongst these different disciplines:
“Communication Breakdown, It’s always the same; I’m having a nervous breakdown, Drive me insane!” – Led Zeppelin
Successful communication is an integral part of any group or team – whether it’s a school class or a FTSE 100 company – and yet it is so easy to get wrong. Here are a few tips for effective communication. (and keeping your sanity!
Adding a New Dimension to Health and Safety Courses
Global training specialists, AquaTerra Training Ltd unveiled a new safety initiative in partnership with Magicians and Facilitators, Fifth Dimension, on Thursday 10th December at the company’s headquarters in Kintore, Aberdeenshire.
Find out more…
Carlsberg - Time for Safety - A Case Study
When planning for this Time For Safety event Carlsberg wanted something different, something inspirational, motivating and engaging, something people would remember and would have practical application in the work place.
A Funny Business…humour in the workplace.
Have you heard the one about the unhappy worker who was too stressed to come into work? It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but the punchline is certainly no laughing matter – figures from the Health and Safety Executive suggest that around 13 million working days are lost each year due to work-related stress alone.
That’s why businesses could do worse than remember the old maxim ‘laughter is the best medicine’.
Zoomanity - Animals in the Workplace
It is often said in jest that humans have a tendency to resemble their pets. However what about the parallels that can be drawn between our work personas and the animal kingdom?
We’ve had a bit of fun categorising staff into a number of worker ‘types’, which, once recognised, can help when it comes to appreciating the ranges of skills and experiences present in a team and allocating work accordingly. We present our take on Zoomanity in the work place.
Do you recognise any of your colleagues here?
Team Development has long been recognised as a vital component of a successful organisation. Business people the world over talk about working as a team, building the team, feeling part of a team, but a surprisingly small proportion really understand how to create the experience of team work, or how to develop an effective team.
HSE: Fifth Dimensions bag of tricks catches on.
We managed to get a nice piece of coverage in the press earlier this week.
Training firm Fifth Dimension has enjoyed a 36% increase in turnover after securing a clutch of international contracts.
Sales in 2013 hit a record high for the firm which takes an unusual ‘magically enhanced’ approach to health and safety.
