Jef Menguin is a shift designer, leadership consultant, speaker, and author. He helps leaders, teams, professionals, and entrepreneurs turn insight into action through speeches, workshops, books, and shift experiences.
Maximize your team’s productivity with our step-by-step guide to clarify team roles. Boost collaboration, minimize confusion, and achieve project success today!
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Working with others is never easy. In fact, working with others is usually frustrating, time-consuming, and stressful. Ask me why. Because teamwork isn’t natural to us, Filipinos are competitive that there is a tendency not to cooperate with others — most especially with people whom
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Think of team guidelines as the secret sauce to a happy, efficient team! They help us understand each other better, avoid silly mistakes, and make sure everyone’s on the same page.
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Teams stall when nobody says “I will” and everyone waits for “we”—and the result is rework, finger-pointing, and slow execution. In this article, Jef Menguin shares a simple way to build personal ownership inside teamwork through clearer roles, promises, and follow-through. Use it in your next meeting and pass it on so accountability becomes normal, not awkward.
Help your team make accurate assessments of its actions and structure. Understand that your team is a perfect fit to its current structure and performance of its members. People preoccupied about their daily businesses become blind to what they’re doing. They fail to correct themselves.
The main purpose of team building is to ensure team success. Unfortunately, much of team building activities these days pay more attention to fun and games and less on results. Probably because training providers sell the packages, not the purposes of team building. It is
Observe that in many team-building games, facilitators require you to play one game after another. They give you instructions. Then tell you the time available for you — and the best time ever which you are not likely to beat. They do not bother to
Pursue excellence. When you leverage learning, you can grow your impact ten times.
A Filipino motivational speaker can use humor and wit to entertain his audience. A comedian can use his craft to motivate people to do something. But a motivational speaker who brand himself as a comedian while saying nothing is missing out the essentials.
Almost all group sports promote teamwork. But you must be very careful in choosing your group sports for team games. Because how you win the game, not just how you build the team, is a metaphor of how you want people to achieve corporate goals.
What does it really mean to create value? Transform the lives of people who you intend to use your products and services. As a teacher, you can help the uneducated to learn what matters, those afraid learners to become confident, and the uncertain to thirst
This is a common mistake. In my eight years of helping organizations build teams, many managers think that team building is a great opportunity to chill and relax.
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Many organizations spend millions on training programs. They want to develop leaders, build teams, and engage employees. Unfortunately, many of these training programs fail to deliver desired results. Here are five reasons. Most training programs don’t have measurable goals. Many organizations who have professional development
Ten years ago, I attended sales training for real estate agents. The sales trainers spoke highly of the company which sponsored the training.
I will begin by introducing to you my family because they are everything to me. Meet my wife Romelyn. She is a librarian at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos. She’s finished her masters in Library Science in 2018. She intends to invest her
When your starving crowd are accomplished individuals, get an inspirational speaker. They do not need another motivational speaker. They need someone who can pull them to think beyond themselves. They need someone who can inspire them to leave their pedestals and lift others. Medical doctors,
Every year, companies spend millions of pesos on time management training. We have this wrong belief that low productivity has something to do with our sense of time. Aside from stress management, time management training is an obvious solution for unproductive employees. Unfortunately, this obvious
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. That’s from Dr. Seuss. Let’s talk about uniqueness. When we are still starting in a certain profession, it is tempting to imitate our heroes and believe
Good leaders work with a sense of urgency. Their words are their vows. They work on the most important and stick to it until it gets done.
A team charter fixes the silent drift that makes meetings heavy, decisions slow, and “we’re not aligned” become the team’s favorite excuse. In this article, Jef Menguin shows how to use a team charter as a strategy conversation—not a form—so roles, rules, and “what winning looks like” become clear. Practice it and share it with your leadership team so you stop guessing, decide faster, and commit harder.
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