AboutCharlie Breeding Expertise I can help you with Team Building, and the many ways by which you can achieve greater team building outcomes. What's your first question?
Experience Fifteen wonderful years with Dale Carnegie Training as a Trainer, Center of Excellence Director/VP reporting to CEO, and Franchisee. I've also worked for Dr. Steven Covey at FranklinCovey. I've been conducting Team Building workshops and interventions for over 22 years with superior, proven and long-lasting results.
Organizations ASTD, ISPI, SHRM, and others...
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Education/Credentials BS in Engineering from West Point
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Expert: Charlie Breeding Date: 10/24/2007 Subject: history of team
Question Hi Charlie. I am researching the background to when the word team started to be applied in business and where the word was originally used. any help with this is much appreciated.
thanks
Dougal
Answer Dougal,
Let me try to help you - this is tough, though. I not only have no idea when team started being used in business, I couldn't recommend where to do that type of research.
My personal opinion is that was in the 20th century (is that a large enough time window?!); as sports became more widespread and available, people naturally took "team" from a sports metaphor to business.
Now, self-directed work teams were prevalent back in the '70's and '80s, with companies like Corning Glass.
Charlie
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