Ask Michelle & Chris About Team Building
Michelle and Chris are here to answer your team building questions so we can learn and grow together!The more you know, the more you can do! Michelle Cummings (Training-Wheels.com) and Dr. Chris Cavert (OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.com) team up on this weekly podcast to field questions from team builders all over the world. Michelle and Chris have over 50 years of combined team building and training experience and over 20 publications to their credit. They both have traveled the world to help team builders get better at what they do best - lead powerful team building programs. Do you have a team building related question? Submit it to the show at OnTeamBuilding.com/askpodcast
Latest episodes
Feb 15, 2023 • 33min
#72: Similarities and Differences Between Corporate and Other Facilitated Programs
Michelle and Chris share their approaches to programming and facilitating different types of groups. Outcomes are often very similar across the different groups. It usually comes down to the language used to focus in on the specific take-aways. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Feb 1, 2023 • 26min
#71: Season 4 Debut! Words & Quote of the Year
Welcome to Season 4! Chris and Michelle are excited to begin a fresh season with new ideas and tips for experiential facilitation.First up, our favorite beginning-of-the-year activity, Word of the Year. Here's a link to a past blog post from Michelle on this activity, which includes Four Tips on Choosing Your Word of the Year.Here are two images to help you choose your Word of the Year:List OneList TwoThanks for joining us!
Dec 20, 2022 • 28min
#70: Reflections on 2022
Michelle and Chris look back over the last year with excitement and motivation. Find out:Why they will continue podcasting this next year.How they did on their "Word(s) of the Year" (Episode #52).Why reconnection is important. Their Gratefuls and Gratitudes from 2022.Thank you for joining us this year - we hope you join us for the next...Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Dec 7, 2022 • 28min
#69: Facilitator Behaviors that Drive Us Crazy
Michelle and Chris share some of the challenging behaviors they see in facilitators and offer some solutions on how to encourage better practices. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Nov 23, 2022 • 25min
#68: Trainer Tools We Never Leave Home Without
Michelle and Chris go through a rapid-fire list of things they never leave home without when training team builders on the road. This fun energetic episode will leave you thinking about your own 'take-with-you' essentials. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Nov 10, 2022 • 33min
#67: Concepts and Ideas from Thought Leaders that have Influenced Our Work
Find out how, The Path to Action, Perception-Action-Will and the Trust premiss of Character and Competence can help you with your team building work. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Oct 26, 2022 • 33min
#66: 10 Effective Techniques for Processing & Debriefing (Part 5) Action & Reflection and Object Lessons
Action Reflection and Object Lessons are the final techniques in this five-part series. Michelle and Chris share favorites and discuss why when and why they use them. We hope this series of processing techniques has given you new inspiration or revived an old tool you plan to revisit. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Sep 28, 2022 • 33min
#65: 10 Effective Techniques for Processing & Debriefing (Part 4) Artistic Methods and Self-Reflection
Michelle and Chris share another pair of processing and debriefing tools - Artistic Methods and Self Reflection. This five-part series (one more to go) is designed to show you how many ways you can approach the important task of discussing the valuable lessons of team building activities and programs. When you use different approaches you and your participants stay curious and engage more in the process of processing. Mix it up, make it fun. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Sep 13, 2022 • 34min
#64: 10 Effective Techniques for Processing & Debriefing (Part 3) Interventions and Anchor Pieces
Michelle and Chris talk about the next two processing techniques - Intervention and Anchor Pieces. Interventions are ways to focus on correcting disruptive group behaviors and Anchors are tangible items participants can take home with them as a (learnings) reminder from a program. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
Aug 31, 2022 • 29min
#63: 10 Effective Techniques for Processing & Debriefing (Part 2) Metaphoric Methods and Frontloading
Michelle and Chris continue their current series on processing and debriefing with the Metaphoric Methods and Frontloading. Find out some of their favorite tools and activities for both techniques and two different ways to Frontload. We hope you join us!Emails:michelle@training-wheels.comchris@onteambuilding.comFind the Show Notes with all the resource links HERESubmit a comment or team building related question HEREMichelle Cummings - Training-Wheels.comSign Up for Michelle's weekly Newsletter HEREDr. Chris Cavert - OnTeamBuilding.com & FUNdoing.comSign Up for FUNdoing Fridays bi-Monthly Activity email HERE
