Yes, I really like quotations. Brilliant ideas really worth our time. Today, I am sharing with you some team-building quotes that you can use to motivate your teams. Share these quotations also to your bosses. They too need to be reminded of the teambuilding principles which are the bases of the following teambuilding quotations.

I suggest also that you print out and place your favorite quotes in strategic locations where your team will see them. We need to be constantly reminded. You could also put some inspiring images and pictures with them too.

These quotes are also for Filipino teambuilding facilitators in the Philippines. Pick one team building quote, pause, and reflect. You will discover new meanings which can help your clients address their needs. Do you have doubts? Try it now.

Pick your quote below:

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. — Peter Drucker

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George Patton

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. — Publius Syrus

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. — James Thomas

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. — Philip Armour

A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter F. Drucker

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. — Mary D. Poole

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter F. Drucker

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren Bennis

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. — Elaine Agather

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. — James Humes

I don’t know what leadership is. You can’t touch it. You can’t feel it. It’s not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it. — Bob Ehrlich

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann

And yes, I will also welcome your contribution. Make this page richer by giving your own favorite teambuilding quotes.

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Yes, you read it right. Stress is an attitude.  You can place two people in the same situation, and it is likely that two of them will react differently to the same situation or circumstance.  William James once said, “it is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.” Or unsuccessful outcome.

Most people are thermometers.  Their poor attitude about life do not help them decide for themselves. They go with the typical patterns of the animal kingdom- reactive. Provide them the stimulus and they will response. Not really unlike Pavlov’s dog. Thermometer people are reactive. Unless they check their attitude, they will distressed for the rest of their lives.

Few people are thermostat. They have positive view of life. They see the big pictures that they are not easily “stressed” by the small things in life. They are not Pavlov’s dogs. Give them a situation. They may act at once, but you will notice that their actions are deliberate. Their actions are thoughtful and not just instincts.  Typically thermostat people are peak performers. They are not afraid of stress. They see stress as necessary element to a happy and peaceful life.

Thermometers see tasks as problems. Thermostat people see them as challenges and opportunities. Both of them may experience the same level of stress. Thermometers react. Thermostat proact.

I invite you therefore to check your attitude when you are stressed. Those who do not pause, think, and pray are bound to regress to immature ways of handling stress. Many a home is destroyed because of poor attitude towards self, others, and life. Even the smallest challenge can be a very stressful situation for someone who is poor in attitude.

Renew your mind. Change your life today. Be happy for the rest of your life.

Jef Menguin

About: Jef Menguin facilitates stress management workshops in Metro Manila, Philippines. You may contact him through inspire@jefmenguin.com

Note: This entry is part of Jef Menguin’s project to write about 101 ways to cope with stress. Please feel free to share your thoughts below and share your stress management tips.

Your favorite quotations reflect the way you see life, or at least your ideals of what life should be. Below are my favorite leadership quotes. I think anyone who has the desire to lead people — managers, supervisors, teachers, CEOs, motivational speakers and others — will benefit from these leadership quotes.

I intend to enrich this page. So, when your favorite leadership quotation is not included here, I encourage you to share yours. You can email it to me, or simply include your quote in the comment form below.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. — Peter Drucker

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. — George Patton

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed. — Publius Syrus

To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg. — James Thomas

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place. — Philip Armour

A leader is a dealer in hope. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter F. Drucker

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him….But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, “We did it ourselves. — Lao Tzu

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. — Mary D. Poole

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter F. Drucker

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning. — Warren Bennis

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. — Elaine Agather

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. — James Humes

I don’t know what leadership is. You can’t touch it. You can’t feel it. It’s not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it. — Bob Ehrlich

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann

Speak your mind. You may comment on any leadership quote above.

One Right Action

We can change the Philippines for the better.

In the interim between the start of the New Year and the elections this 2010, we are all nauseated by any mention of change. Not because we don’t want change but because we are fatigued from promises of new beginnings that were dropped nearly as quickly as the preachers of ‘pagbabago’ switched political parties. It’s a case of too much “bango” not enough “bago.”

When we look to better our lives, often we think it’s the job of those in office. One guy proclaims he won’t steal, another says he’s doesn’t need to steal, still another claims the presidency was stolen from him.

And then there’s Iza.

A Fat Wallet Leads to Change

Iza also holds office, the corporate kind. She works from Monday to Saturday tirelessly, just like you and I. She is changing the Philippines, slowly and concretely.

She is changing the Philippines by having a fat wallet. But not in the way you think. It’s fat because she collects the receipts from daily activities like getting a snack, receiving a flyer, buying a ticket and so many more. Instead of seeing trash, she sees free notepaper with which to jot down reminders, shopping lists, ideas and the like. Imagine how much paper and money she saves by creatively reusing available resources.

Simple? No doubt. But nevertheless so critical and significant for change we can believe in.

One Tama is about Action

Iza is one of the founding members of One Tama. We want to inspire our country to no longer be Juan Tamad but One Tama; a people who are willing to act to create the change they desire! How? It is by doing simple actions, sharing these actions and practicing this one good action everyday.

It all began as a venue for friends to talk about their daily lives, dreams for the future, and how crazy things were in this country. And the day came when we felt talking just won’t cut it; we can do so much more. We are not going to wait for the country to change.

We want to cultivate the habit of doing one right thing at a time, one day at a time. How difficult can it be to throw trash in its proper place, to say thank you, and to fall in line? These simple acts are they key to changing our hearts, and minds and consequently, our country.

Think about it in the larger context. Nobody gains weight overnight. It’s that extra dessert, or taking the elevator instead of the stairs in and day out that leads to those few extra pounds. Summa cum laude’s are not given because you did well for just one semester. Efren Penaflorida was recognized as a CNN Hero in 2009 for his pushcart classroom, but he’s been working the streets, encouraging community activism since 1997.

As always, the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we live in our current condition. True, long-lasting change is a product of small positive changes over time. There are never any shortcuts. For this country to become the best version of it, it must change slowly and steadily. It will be not be easy, but it will be a worthy effort. And so we must begin.

Choose One Action

One Tama is not a political group. It doesn’t believe big events and bigger personalities are the keys to a change for the better. We just says one thing — act. The action doesn’t need to be difficult nor dangerous. We want you to look into yourself and answer the question, “What one simple thing can I do to change for the better?”

Share that Action

Our website, www.ontema.com is a depository of good actions that other people are doing. On this site you can register and choose actions you can commit to doing every day. We are confident you will find one simple change you can make in your own life. Tell your friends and family about the good that you’re doing, not to boast but to make a public commitment. You may even inspire them to do the same

Do it Regularly

Daily practice is up to the individual. Once a month, we have an “Action Day.” From among the many suggestions on the site, we choose one action that we can all do together on a larger scale to multiply the good that we can do. Everybody is invited to join. It’s been a year since the start of the group and we have: raised awareness through a talk at Starbucks Dialogues, given away reusable bags at a supermarket, hosted a free tour of Intramuros, held a clean-up day in Marikina for victims of Ondoy, given away commitment bumper stickers to encourage proper driving etiquette and worked with Walls of Hope to repaint the Philippine Children’s Medical Center.

One Tama has also given talks in schools, corporations and conferences. We are currently working with these schools and corporations on how to inculcate One Tama into their daily operations and how to instill these values into their constituency.

When the question, “Do you want the country to change?” arises, the answer always comes in a staccato, quick and curt, “Yes!”

The question One Tama asks you is, “Do you want to change the country?”

We can change the Philippines for the better. We need your help.

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What is your one act?
We’d love to hear from you.
Have a conversation with us:  www.onetama.com