To survive the 1990s, senior managers need to develop and maintain a culture of team working. This will prove to be the single most dynamic force which will equip organizations to adapt to the new realities of the business world. Careful planning must take place, if managers are to maximize the...

From a highly personal perspective seeks to discuss the outcomes from participation on a particular outdoor development programme. Draws on learning logs completed during the programme and subsequently on return to work to reflect on a personal development agenda and on the broader potential of...

Presents brief results of a study into factors that successful managers use to increase productivity in the UK and USA. Identifies ten common themes including use of talent, objective measurement and team building.

Details a management development programme on board a 300‐ton, three‐masted, topsail schooner. Provides an evaluation of the programme and concludes that participating executives will learn enough about teamwork to repay the investment.

Discusses the development of the Team Management System. Describes the Team Management Wheel with its nine key roles from Controller Inspector to Creator Innovator. Explains the role of the linker manager and the production of a personal profile for each team member. Concludes it provides an...

Describes the training of senior managers from the Soviet Lada automobile plant in a UK management centre. Notes the need for intensive cultural and technical briefing and familiarisation sessions prior to the two‐week course. Explains the content as being built around team building and most...

An unusual teambuilding exercise helped employees at StorageTek, an international provider of data storage and network solutions, to see how their individual efforts fit into the company’s “big picture”. Around 650 delegates from 14 countries, plus senior managers from company’s...

Outdoor experiential training became established as one of the big HR ideas during the 1990s. The theory is that leadership skills can be honed and team spirit developed by taking employees into the great outdoors, usually at weekends. The “survival” of workers might depend, for example, on...

Purpose – The aim of the article is to describe how Keynote Teambuilding provided 15 members of staff from the Manchester headquarters of the Oddfellows friendly society with a team‐building experience that covered song creation, playing technique and live performing – all within the space...