Ellen Burts-Cooper

Amazeing Organizational Teams Ellen Burts-Cooper

aMAZEing Organizational Teams is a guide for improving group workplace dynamics. It is based on the aMAZEing Team Building experience located in Cleveland, Ohio, where teams navigate through a maze of highly interactive indoor mental challenges based on seven attributes of healthy, productive teams. This body of work brings those experiences to the reader to help individuals and teams in any organization successfully navigate the complexities that increase productivity, cohesion, and resilience, leading to more effective engagement. This book serves as a team action planning workbook and discussion, walking the reader through these seven critical attributes. Teams are given guidance or how to (1) build and/or increase trust, (2) master the elements required for improved communication, (3) foster an environment of appreciation, (4) manage meetings to productive outcomes, (5) deliver robust solutions through improved problem solving and decision making techniques, (6) continuously generate new ideas and think creatively ways to improve process and products, (7) all while managing healthy behavioral interactions.