Author: Dashiell Hammett

Are you planning for team building activities at your work place? To start with, as managers, you need to recognize the right talent for each job in the team. The team needs to be willing together, creative and non-judgmental. Once the right team is formed, they need to be trained to get the best out of them. And the easiest way to do it is by facilitating them with a suitable trainer/facilitator who is experienced and trained to train. Along with this even team members should have certain skills to be an effective part of the team. They must have interpersonal skills, communication skills, and mainly they must trust other team members. It is good if they have conflict management skills as well. These will help in building great team.

  • Do not ignore the family: If your team consists of less number of people, you can ask your employees to accompany with family. After all family support also builds a good team and healthy employee manager relationship.
  • Food for staff: Do not make your staff starve. Choose the food, which are local in your place and with the liking of all people. Choose foods for vegans and vegetarians too.
  • Entertain with games and competitions: encourage friendly competitions and entertaining games, so that your event does not become boring solitude group party (where few people form a separate group and talk among themselves).
  • Building Your TeamGive rewards and titles: Most of the employees in your team may have other talents too. Encourage them to come out of nut-shell and showcase their talent.
  • Get Feedback and Suggestions: Lastly, get the feedback and suggestions from your employees. Asking your employees but their ideas or about their feedback will help to a greater extent.
  • Make it interactive: Let your party not be like a boring stuff, where each and every one makes their team and gets engrossed. Include activities and games, so that each and every one gets involved in it.
  • Choose a place with food treat: When you are planning a team event, make sure you do not keep them starving. Feed them with delicacies which fit in your budget and make sure they are happy. Food is most memorable thing of the event.

Do not have an activity that encourages winning as there is only one winner and it demotivates them thinking they are not fit for the job. This will lower his performance. Where a competitive event has to held, others also should be rewarded for helping or supporting. Always give time to reflect on their work in the event.

When woman is pregnant, fluctuation in the hormones will cause certain changes to happen in a women body that will often be tough to bear. All these changes differ from one woman to another and include things as wider hips, thickening ankles, bigger stomach, and nice waddle close to delivery date. Never make the mistake that many people do by saying things that a pregnant woman does not need to hear. Some well-placed comments will go a very long way to shaping how the woman thinks that you see her or how she might see herself. Here are 10 suggestions on what things you are allowed to say to the pregnant woman. Use some or all of them. A mother-to-be will thank you!

  1. You’re amazing/ beautiful/gorgeous. It is obviously very good to say it to anyone, but best to say it to a pregnant woman. It takes a little focus off on how round their tummy is getting, or makes them feel a little good about themselves, in spite of weight gain, acne breakouts and sweating. Anything that makes any pregnant woman feel good is the best thing to say, particularly when she is super emotional.
  2. You’re an adorable pregnant woman. I suspect that many pregnant women don’t feel very attractive when they are not pregnant, and definitely they have to hear that they actually are. Even though that bump is big, calling it adorable and make them know they appear good.Pregnant Woman
  3. Is it a girl or a boy? This is one safe question one can ask because it does not talk about the size, and this gives you something very exciting to talk. Irrespective of whether she knows if it is a girl or boy, they will be excited to know about the baby gender.
  4. What are you feeling? Very honestly, it is one thing that every pregnant women wants to hear either from her partner or friends. She will love to share the feeling that she is going through this important stage of her life.
  5. Your bump is cute! Once again, make her feel very good about her belly. You can let her know that she looks amazing, and her bump is super cute, and she’s doing a fantastic job.
  6. You are going to make a great mom: Every woman have different mothering technique. And new mom-to-be will be more nervous to go in this process.
  7. It is the awesome news! No shocking or distressing news. Doesn’t matter if the pregnancy was planned it is done. Now, just the celebration!
  8. That will be a lucky kid: The mom-to-be is not an only human who is affected by the process. Make her feel pride in this miracle she’s creating.
  9. Take my seat: Never and every make any pregnant woman to stand. There’s not enough of Web space go in how rude it is.