Good management practice assumes a capacity for accurate self‐analysis in respect of one′s job and performance. Yet it is surprising how long it takes some managers to acquire this. Provides two models which have been tried and tested for this very purpose.

Addresses the value of laughter, play and a sense of humour as tools for improving communication, innovation and empowerment. Organizations around the world are hiring the author, and other facilitators, to deliver playful and humorous programmes designed to help team members develop a creative...

Describes outdoor team‐building programmes provided by the company Team Dynamic. Satisfied clients include Europ Assistance, International Factors (a Lloyds Bank subsidiary), Alexander Howden and Transaction Technology Ltd.

Describes major changes to working practices made at British Alean Primary & Recycling Ltd. which were part of wide‐ranging cultural changes implemented by the firm in an attempt to counteract its history of strike action and the pressures of sector recession Outlines the new process of team...

Business faces a set of critical human problems, and is downgrading the very human resource departments which are supposed to help it to find solutions. Argues that salvation lies in the hands of human resource specialists themselves, who must switch from being administrators and huggers to...

Whether in sport or in business, everyone is capable of achieving more than they do at present, regardless of their education or current successes and achievements. That is the view of Will Carling, England Rugby Union captain and managing director of Insights Ltd. Here, he argues that...

GE Plastics, a division of the General Electric Co., came up with a simple yet powerful idea for teambuilding ‐ by putting its employees to work helping the community. Describes the scheme in detail.