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Quix Pix of 2011 – Part 1
Every month we share some of our currently favorite books, music, movies and TV shows in our newsletter, The Quixote Quest. Here are six of our twelve favorite movies (in no particular order) that we watched in 2011.
1. Mary and Max – Funny, poignant, weird, claymation. That about sums it up and those words will either [...]
Also posted in Play Tagged A Prophet, Firefly, George Clooney, Jacques Audiard, Joss Whedon, Mary and Max, Michael Clayton, movies, Quix Pix, The Lives of Others, The Tunnel Comments closed
What do Gandalf the Grey and Wangari Maathai have in common?
By Laura Herbert
What could an elder wizard and an environmental and political activist possibly have in common? Gandalf, for one is fictional, yet his gentle strength and powerful wisdom make him one of the most beloved characters in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Wangari Maathai, on the other hand, was a very real [...]
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DIY Name That Tune – Quixote Consulting’s Music Team Building Fun
Name That Tune! Music Team Building Fun for Everyone is Quixote Consulting’s latest music team building activity. Here are three ways to play on your own:
In your car, press the scan button on the radio and see how many songs you can name.
Set your computer music player program (iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc.) on [...]
What Flowers in November for you?
On my morning walk, the air grey and moist, the woods grey and bare, yellow pompoms of confetti on the witch hazel shrubs among the pine trees caught my eye. What’s going on? This is November! Is something seriously wrong with the woods? Is this global warming? Why is this bush blooming now while everything [...]
Also posted in Persistence, Purpose, Training Tagged change for good, change management, change management training, Change Quest, forty days, Forty Days to Change for Good, Grow, Quixote Consulting, Resiliency, resiliency training, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, rhythm, ritual, ritual to support change, Rob Fletcher Comments closed
Five Tips for Making an Impression with Manners (part 1)
Learn some great tips on business dining etiquette from this guest post by Quixote Consulting’s own ‘Miss Manners’ – Laura Herbert, production and logistics manager. More to come tomorrow!
I don’t know why, but ever since I was a small girl I have been inexplicably obsessed with table manners. As a child, I felt that it [...]
Also posted in Team Building Tagged business dining etiquette, business eating etiquette, cooking team building, corporate team building, culinary team building, food team building, getting to know you, Getting To Know You Dinner, getting to know you games, getting to know you icebreakers, ice breaker games, icebreaker games, networking, Networking Dinner, networking ideas, Quixote Consulting, team building during a meal, team building meeting Comments closed
Enjoy these great quotes from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (Part 2)
Quote week wraps up with the rest of the quotes I really liked from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. Which one is your favorite?
The spirit of the land, as becomes the ruler of great enterprises, is careless of innumerable lives. Woe to the stragglers! We exist only in so far as we hang together. He had straggled [...]
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Enjoy these great quotes from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (Part 1)
Quote week continues with some quotes I really liked from Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. Which one is your favorite?
The daily task’s…reward is in the perfect love of the work.
No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
“It was solemn, and a little ridiculous, too, as they always [...]
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How to respond with play – the oil spill and other disasters
Here are some suggestions to help you respond to a painful situation with play – which one is right for you?
Play seems like an absurd word to use when responding to large painful situations, but there is room for play everywhere. Play also to me means experiencing the pure moment. This means…
Feel the pure sensation [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged At Your Best, curiosity, gulf oil spill, Gulf oil tragedy, heart and humor and humility, Joni Mitchell, oil spill, Play, Quixote Consulting, rabbit, Resiliency, Resiliency: Five Keys to Success, responding to the oil spill, strengths based team training, strengths-based team building, summer Comments closed
Do you like to follow procedure or not? Learn how to put the “C” in the DiSC profile to work
Today we’ll look at the fourth quadrant of the DiSC behavior profile – Conscientiousness (C). Conscientiousness looks at how you prefer to focus on procedure.
If you’ve taken the DiSC, this will help you to remember much of the valuable information you obtained.
If you haven’t taken the DiSC yet, guess what your preferences are and what [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged conscientiousness, DiSC assessment, DiSC personal, DiSC personality, DiSC personality test, DiSC profile, DiSC team building, DiSC test, DiSC Training, DiSC workshop, procedure, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, team building assessment Comments closed
Take a Trip Around the World With World Rhythms (A Music of Teams Music Team Building Post)