5 Solutions for When Your Team Has NO Energy (and Therefore No Productivity)

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You look around the room and nobody is sitting up straight. Half your team is staring at their phones, the other half is joking with each other about how tired, stressed, or “done” they are. What happened to your hard-hitting, kick-butt team? Hint: They are human. Which means that sometimes, the energy is going to sink […]

[Video] The Fast Forward Mindset – Accelerating Team Success

Sound effects, Sarah Mclachlan, and the Fast Forward Mindset. What do they all have in common? This episode of the Swift Kickin’ It Show. This episode of SKTV is for team leaders want to get their team on the fast, but effective, track to success. We chat with Lawline’s CEO, David Schnurman, about his Fast […]

8 Cheap (but still fun) Team Outings and Activites For When You Have No Budget

You know that feeling when you’re laughing so hard you start crying? No matter what you do, you feel your eyes well up and the uncontrollable giggles escaping. Talk about an endorphin party! Laughing with your team is perhaps the best way to bond with each other. This is especially important if your team perhaps […]

[Video] Team Creativity: Unlocking Your Team’s Creative Genius

“I made an Elsa cake. There’s no need for that.” -Marisol Bazile Is there anything more creative than making an Elsa birthday cake? Nope, there isn’t. Which is why the Swift Kickin’ It Show brought Marisol on for Episode Two to chat about unlocking team creativity. This episode of SKTV is for team leaders who […]

[Video] How to Recover From a Team Hangover and Bring the Energy Back

At long last! The first episode of our long awaited Swift Kickin’ It Show is here! This month’s topic is “How to Recover from a Team Hangover.” But before we get into that, here’s a little background of what the show, also known as #SKTV, is all about. Lead facilitators Tom and Melissa, along with […]

Using State Management to Stop Feeling Useless

Sometimes, working from home is exactly what I need to focus and get stuff done. But other times, not so much. The idea for this post came to me while curled up under a blanket on my huge couch. My apartment was cold, which immediately killed my motivation. I was listless and blah. Yeah, I […]

Why We Had a Time Machine at Our Last Team Retreat

As you know by now, when Melissa and I plan a retreat, things can get a little weird. We started 2018 no differently, and this time the weirdness included a Back To The Future theme and our very own time machine. Yes, I said time machine. Here’s why a time traveling theme was the perfect […]

Welcoming Elon to the Swift Kick Team!

No, no. Not Musk. We have a cooler Elon on board here at SKHQ. Elon Kline is a sophomore at University of Delaware, studying Interpersonal Effectiveness in Leadership. He is also minoring in Organizational Community Leadership and Entrepreneurial Studies. But somehow he has time in between all that studying to also rock star his internship with us! […]

Why Your New Year’s Resolution Will Fail Without “Ego Minimization”

Pretend for a moment you promised your 5-year-old niece that you’d bring your famous peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies to the holiday party on Saturday. But you get home from work, and you’re exhausted. Do you hunker down and do it anyway? Of course, you do! You can’t disappoint, those big brown eyes and that […]

Another Free Hugs Day in the Books! #FreeHugs17

Free Hugs Day has become quite the event at many schools around the US. From Texas A&M International University, to Fordham University in New York, to UC Berkeley, we witnessed hugs at every corner of our country. Free Hugs Day is a tradition for many different schools every year.  Check out what some of these […]

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