Team Day Toolkit for Leaders
At Hargraves, we’ve facilitated hundreds (if not thousands) of Team Days. So we’ve collated our top tips and 4 of our popular downloadable team tools to help you deliver your own successful Team Day.
innovation & your team
Three ways to deliver a Team Day everybody will embrace and value
For most hybrid and remote teams, greater freedom comes with a proviso that regular on-site team days occur. That means Team Days now play a critical role in team-building and can deliver significant returns in productivity, creativity and wellness over the longer term. But delivering an engaging Team Day can be easier said than done. So try these 3 ideas!
Are you ready to grow?
Plato once said, “The beginning is the most important part of the work”. After a tough 2021, teams are now under pressure to hit the ground running. But leaders need to make space and time for their teams to pause, reflect and plan. And while many will naturally want to focus on growth through improved …
How do you create space for healthy team conversations?
For this small team, choosing a card as a conversation starter helped them step out of their routine, creating a safe space to ask new and different questions and build stronger relationships with their peers.
Great resignation? Great exhaustion? Great expectations?
Given all the recent press, you’ve no doubt heard about ‘the great resignation’. Essentially, as employees worldwide ponder their return to work, they’re also realising what they do (and don’t like) about their work/life priorities and doing something about it. In fact, research suggests that almost 40% of Australians are planning to change jobs. As …
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How to transition to a new post-Covid workplace that people will love
As organisations transition back into the physical workplace, many are taking the opportunity to reconnect their teams and reset their team culture. For the leadership team at Morton, a geographically diverse business, this was particularly true. Learn how they did it, with a little help from Hargraves and Collaborizza.
How Can You Become An Adaptive Leader (With A Game Plan)?
Before the pandemic, agility was a foundation of success. But now, the world is a very different place. Leaders face new challenges from insular silos to hybrid work and climate change. And the rapid rate of change means leaders can no longer wait for more and more data before making decisions to move. Adaptive businesses …
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The Economics of IKEA: Why Does Labor Lead to Love?
Loved (or loathed) by millions, IKEA is the worlds largest furniture retailer with a unique business model. Their brilliantly designed flat-pack furniture means the customer does the work, and IKEA has a low-cost, high-profit outcome. One of the secrets of IKEA’s success has been identified as ‘the IKEA Effect’, which states that people are more …
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For remote team building, start with the ‘What’ not the ‘Why’
I’m sure you’re familiar with “Start With Why”, the 2009 best selling book by Simon Sinek. If you haven’t read the book, perhaps you’re one of the 50 million people – twice the population of Australia – who have watched his TEDx talk. Sinek’s Golden Circle WHY-HOW-WHAT model is a go-to for leaders everywhere, and …
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Leader Of The Pack
Leaders globally are grappling with how to lead with the sort of deep courage, conviction and care that is more influential than the pandemic is destructive. Irrespective of whether businesses are working locally or virtually, leaders lament the loss of control over their operations and culture. While new restrictions do their bit to prohibit and …