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The meetings (have to do two sessions) are booked for 4th Sept.

I will let you know how it goes

Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 25/7/2013

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Quote: On serious note, anyone who says that a course or team building exercise was a waste of time usually hasnt gone into it with an "open mind" and hasnt tried to "get involved"

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That is a sweeping generalisation. Team building should take place naturally without time having to be specifically allocated to it. People mix naturally and form relationships and if you have to force it using this americanised waffle then the fault is usually not with the team.

In the case I was thinking of the team actually worked well together ( 9 people ) the 10th person was the problem and also the boss. Unfortunately since to a man the team regarded him as incompetent, arrogant and unproductive there was never much chance the 'team building' session was ever likely to work. Sadly the employer failed to see that the way to cure the perceived problem was to remove the incompetent boss who posessed all the man management skills of Atilla the Hun.

When the senior management team have appointed someone and its the wrong person it is simply a matter of them showing some chutzpah and admitting they got the wrong person to put in charge - sadly they persisted with their choice of manager, failed to recognise the problem and the result has been an extremely high turn over of staff in that department together will low morale and high sickness levels and no doubt low efficiency.

I know I didn't go into it with a closed mind and neither did the other 8. The person who sat on the sidelines and refused to take part was and remains the original problem. Happily no longer my problem.


David

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Thank you once again for your help - the sessions are done! 

I did the one where one person describes a diagram the other person has to draw it and then I had 2 teams build lego houses from instructions given by a lead person who had seen the design.

I have forwarded the link to this thread to my colleague who has to do the same thing, so I am sure your ideas will help him and anyone else who has to do one of these