Team Building Success - Team Building Cooking School In California Section

Welcome to Team Building Success

For more information and special deals related to any of the issues on this page, place your cursor over the double-underlined links. All information supplied by Kontera.com

 

Team Building Cooking School In California Article

This is a selection among article about Team Building Cooking School In California. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.

Anatomy of an Inspired Action
Carolyn Wilson-Elliott, MSLC

Team-building is an inside-job
Author: Carolyn Wilson-Elliott

In a staff meeting, Martha described all the obstacles and setbacks her team had encountered while starting a new project. She was frustrated and tired. Her energy was low. Soon, everyone in the room was tense, shooting down ideas and suggestions, frustrated by our own inability to find a creative solution to the stalled project.

My first instinct was to try and shift the energy of the group from dissonance to cooperation. But, no one was having any of that. Soon, I was too exhausted to even try. I began wondering why I was even here. This wasn't any fun!

I disengaged from the discussion and wondered why I had bothered to attend this meeting? What was so appealing about this project when we began? A spark of energy ran through my body and out of my mouth popped the words, '“Martha would you remind us of the vision we’re holding for this project? What was our original intention?”

As Martha spoke of our goals and dreams and visions, the tension drained from her body, color returned to her face, passion for the project softened her voice. The other team leaders sat silently, remembering in their bodies, the creative energy and enthusiasm they had all shared at the original opportunity to take on the project. When the discussion resumed, everyone’s creativity flowed and it took less than five minutes to find a joyful Inspired solution to the seeming blocks and obstacles that had shown up.

It was not my question that changed the group’s ability to problem-solve. It was the energy behind the question that made the shift possible. We’ve all experienced situations with another person who “said” all the right things, but deep down, we knew they didn’t really mean it, that they weren’t concerned with how we were feeling.

If I had asked the same question while I was still trying to “fix” the group's frustration--if fixing everyone else had been my intention--the question could have been ignored or perhaps escalated the tension in the room. Martha, and the rest of the group, would have perceived, consciously or unconsciously, my true motive of wanting them to relieve my frustration with the meeting.

As soon as I focused in, however briefly, on my own needs--remembering why I wanted to be a part of the project--my energy shifted into a place of self-responsibility. From that energy of self-responsibility an Inspired Action--asking the question that would re-connect me to my original desire for the project--came so suddenly that the words were out of my mouth before I knew it.

Now, when I want to be open to Inspired Actions, I just ask myself two questions:

What's my Intention for this situation? What do I need right now to get into the energy of my Intention? The first thing that shows up--as a thought, an image, a feeling--no matter how bizarre, is my Inspired Action. If I doubt my first impression, I just measure the energy of the action against the energy of my Intention. If they are a match, I move forward on the Action. If they don't match energetically, I begin asking my questions again.

For more resources on skill-building go to http://www.geocities.com/quantumspirit/tools_skillbuilding.html

About the Author

To learn more about how to coach yourself from Spirit, subscribe to "Connecting With Spirit". A Master Spirit Coach, Carolyn Wilson-Elliott serves as Director of Coaching From Spirit and CEO of Quantum Spirit International.

Other Team Building Cooking School In California related resources

INSERT YOUR OWN BANNER HERE!

Team Building Cooking School In California News

Cavallo Point Lodge Opens New Cooking School & Culinary Arts Program Directed by Kelsie Kerr, Chef & Author (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)

Cavallo Point - the Lodge at the Golden Gate invites epicurean enthusiasts to immerse into the world of food and wine and take a cooking school vacation at the lodge's new culinary arts program.

Read more...

---

College residence halls get eco-friendly with students (The Norman Transcript)

NEW YORK -- This fall, students at Sarah Lawrence's Warren Green hall will be composting together, monitoring their electricity usage and drying their laundry on a clothesline. They will share appliances, cooking and shopping to reduce waste and energy, and use electric light as little as possible.

Read more...

---

Art Galleries (Palo Alto Weekly)

"Landscape: America the Beautiful" More than 60 works by member artists of Pacific Art League are on exhibition this month in the Main Gallery this month. See variations on the theme Landscapes from photography to Chinese brush painting, monoprint to paint and pencil, embroidery to mosaic.

Read more...

---

The chef with no taste (Guardian Unlimited)

Life & style: DT Max meets Grant Achatz, who battled tongue cancer to create dishes of extraordinary subtlety

Read more...

---

Events for July 19-20 (Seattle Times)

Events for July 19-20 Family fun The Crown of Queen Anne Fun Run, Walk and Children's Parade Sat Run/walk to benefit Queen Anne Helpline...

Read more...

---

The Absolute Best of Tulsa 2008 | A Celebration of American Success (Urban Tulsa)

Click here to download the pdf version

Read more...

---

Bittersweet Odyssey (Daily Breeze)

Davik and her mother let go of the American dream to go home.

Read more...

---