Comments on: Managers: Why You Don’t Need Team-Building http://www.reimaginework.com/dont-need-team-building/ Mary Schaefer - Specializing in Creating Manager-Employee Communication Breakthroughs and Functional, Positive Work Cultures Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:41:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mary http://www.reimaginework.com/dont-need-team-building/comment-page-1/#comment-300 Mary Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:27:59 +0000 http://www.reimaginework.com/?p=3244#comment-300 Thank you so much, Anne, for providing even more clarity on what IS and IS NOT team-building. Thank you so much, Anne, for providing even more clarity on what IS and IS NOT team-building.

]]> By: Anne Thornley-Brown, MBA, Executive Oasis International http://www.reimaginework.com/dont-need-team-building/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Anne Thornley-Brown, MBA, Executive Oasis International Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:50:18 +0000 http://www.reimaginework.com/?p=3244#comment-299 >To me team-building often seems >hokey because it is not designed to >address the “real problem” >When considering team-building, >ask yourself why you really want to >do this. Many times you choose it as >a response to a deeper seated >problem that requires a more direct, >courageous and well-designed >solution. Exactly. A fluffy, strictly recreational activity is not team building. Also, a 30 min or 1 hour "what did we learn" debrief is not enough. It's important to identify the specific issues and objectives upfront. After a THOROUGH debrief of a simulation or other team building experience, it's imporant to really spend some quality and focused thinking, anlaysis, and strategizing time to develop SPECIFIC solutions to the issues that precipiated the need for team building in the first place. I'm in agreement with this post and I have shared similar thoughts here: Team Building Back to Business....Back to Basics http://bit.ly/teambuildingbasics >To me team-building often seems >hokey because it is not designed to >address the “real problem”

>When considering team-building, >ask yourself why you really want to >do this. Many times you choose it as >a response to a deeper seated >problem that requires a more direct, >courageous and well-designed >solution.

Exactly. A fluffy, strictly recreational activity is not team building. Also, a 30 min or 1 hour “what did we learn” debrief is not enough. It’s important to identify the specific issues and objectives upfront. After a THOROUGH debrief of a simulation or other team building experience, it’s imporant to really spend some quality and focused thinking, anlaysis, and strategizing time to develop SPECIFIC solutions to the issues that precipiated the need for team building in the first place.

I’m in agreement with this post and I have shared similar thoughts here:

Team Building Back to Business….Back to Basics
http://bit.ly/teambuildingbasics

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