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I have been searching for new ideas on team building. I know that work teams are so important in getting jobs completed in today's business world. We are working with less employees, less resources. We need to keep up moral in these challenging times. But how do we accomplish this? One way, recognition, we need to say "thank you" more often. Yes, this is just a start but I will add more in coming entries.

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