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Tag Archives: team building activities
GRPI Team Quest: GRPI model and team development tool
The GRPI model is a tool used by teams to increase the effectiveness of their team development, for better project management and many other areas. Developed by Richard Beckhard, the GRPI tool is simple enough to be memorable with enough depth to be useful again and again in a variety of situations. If your team [...]
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Process – The P in the GRPI Model
You hear geese flying south long before you see them. They’re constantly communicating with each other – it’s a very efficient process. I don’t know what they’re communicating, but it clearly works very well. They don’t stop mid-flight to argue about directions, who’s going to make decisions or deal with internal conflict. I’m sure it [...]
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Roles – The R in the GRPI model
The goal is clear for the geese flying south. So are their roles. They each take turns at the front, the most challenging position in the flock. The other geese tuck in behind in each other’s slipstream, drafting each other to conserve strength. The lead goose neither stays too long or too briefly in this [...]
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GRPI Model: An Introduction to the GRPI Tool
The GRPI model is a tool used by teams to increase the effectiveness of their team development, for better project management and many other areas. Developed by Richard Beckhard, the GRPI tool is simple enough to be memorable with enough depth to be useful again and again in a variety of situations. If your team [...]
Posted in Training Also tagged Beckhard grpi model, collaboration, collaborative team, collaborative team building, corporate team building ideas, effective team building strategies, GRPI, Grpi checklist, GRPI model, Grpi model example, Grpi model six sigma, Grpi model teams, GRPI tool, lean team building, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, six sigma team building, systems thinking team building, Team Building, Team building activities for work, team building collaboration, team building collaboration tools, team building exercises, team building exercises for work, team building team work activities, team building team work exercises, Team collaboration, Team Collaboration Quest Comments closed
What to do when you pause – five possibilities
I’ve been writing about pauses that create a chance for something better to come into your existing work. Here are five possibilities for your pauses. Look at what has happened so far. What are your successes, failures? What do you want to keep doing, what do you want to change? How do you want to [...]
Posted in Purpose, Team Building Also tagged meditation, multi-round team building activities, pause, Team Building, Team collaboration, Team Collaboration Quest Comments closed
The Top Ten easiest places to pause your day (beginnings and endings)
I recently wrote about using strategic pauses to improve your work and life experience. Here are ten of the easiest places to take those pauses, natural breaks in your work. You’ll notice that they’re all either beginning or endings Just before the work day begins (definitely before you open your email account) At the end [...]
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Skaters in Washington National Airport – A Stolen Moment
On my way to security – heading home! – in Washington National Airport, this artwork paused me, brought a smile to my face, a feeling of longing to be on the ice with them and a thankfulness for created beauty in the world. I don’t even know if it was an ad (United maybe?) but [...]
Posted in Happiness, Passion, Persistence, Play, Positive Psychology, Purpose, Put It Together Also tagged corporate team building, corporate team building activities, Happiness, Play, Quixote Consulting, Rob Fletcher, skaters, Stolen Moment, Stolen Moments, Team Building, Washington National Airport Comments closed
Stolen Moment: Yellow Irises and Cypress Trees on Theodore Roosevelt Island
Here’s the first in a series of invitations to play and savor the world has presented to me. I call these invitations that I accept ‘stolen moments’. You can read more about stolen moments below. Meanwhile, here’s one from Theodore Roosevelt Island along the Potomac River. It was an early flight. I was up at [...]
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Interpersonal – The I in the GRPI Model