Wish you could improve the engagement level on your team?

Whether you are the team leader or a member on a team engagement levels in teams vary from productive, high energy exchanges to quiet, stressed, uninspired energy sapping moments. But what makes the difference, and just why do some meetings flow with energy and ideas and others you want to run away from, or not make time for?

Do you get tired of hearing the ‘whiner’ in your group place blame on everyone and everything but themselves? Whether it is the economy, the companies fault, or their poor performing coworkers…they have perfected the ‘blame game’.

A few years ago I listened to a firefighter dad tell his young daughter Sydney to “toughen up cupcake” his daughter responded with a tilt to her head, and a straightening of her back – and a slight smile on her face.