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Team Building Takes Time
One of the reasons that “team building” has a dubious reputation is the proliferation of recreational experience providers that bill themselves as team building programs. Team building activities can take the shape of any number of experiences, but it is the facilitated discussion during the event that changes the activity from recreation to something more. Without discussion of the activity and its relationship to real-life, very... [Read More...]
Caving Moratorium
Little Brown Bats stricken with White Nose Syndrome In February 2006 some 40 miles west of Albany, N.Y., a caver photographed hibernating bats with an unusual white substance on their muzzles. He noticed several dead bats. The following winter, bats behaving erratically, bats with white noses and a few hundred dead bats in several caves came to the attention of New York Department of Environmental Conservation biologists, who documented white-nose... [Read More...]
Team Building Programs
Team Building Traditional team building activities provide a participatory experience designed to enhance the effectiveness of team performance. The goal of our team building programs is to utilize challenging and interactive activities as tools for teaching valuable communication and problem solving skills, building a strong foundation of trust, and creating an environment that fosters creativity and healthy risk-taking. [Read More...] Read More →
Welcome to The NEXTeams Companies
All Hands On Deck - A Team Building Exercise NEXTeams uses a combination of experience-based activities and traditional meeting-style techniques, but the true value of its facilitation comes through the conversations that organically emerge during the process. These spontaneous and often passionate discussions are where the change in the group dynamics takes place. Team building, if done well, can be the catalyst to change within an organization. ... [Read More...]
Let’s Not Call It Team Building
As a provider of team building, retreat facilitation, and experiential training for organizational improvement, I make a point of researching the trends in my industry. With no shortage of information available on the internet, I am painfully aware of the confusion and the negative feedback that surrounds the ideas and the execution of activities under the umbrella of “team building”. There are many companies that promote themselves... [Read More...]
Team Building Gets a Bad Rap
I just read another blog posting about how useless team building exercises are with regards to effective work teams. You know, the kind of article that starts out with a cliche about some ‘touchy-feely’ ice-breaker and what a waste of time it was. And have you seen the Geico commercial that shows the CEO taking a trust fall with the Gecko? Yikes! Team building really gets a bad rap! It is unfortunate that there are so many poorly facilitated... [Read More...]
Making a Difference
My wife is a news junkie. She knows I am less enthusiastic about the sensationalism that is shoveled out in the typical newscast, and so she has mercifully stopped subjecting me to the local news, but the NBC Nightly News is still a mainstay. Although I generally don’t pay too much attention to the show, I have been enjoying the “Making a Difference” segment that highlights positive things individuals and communities have been... [Read More...]
Trust is at the Root of Innovation
I work part-time as a school teacher at a local Montessori school here in Maryland. My students are ages 3 to 14 years-old and one of the best parts of teaching them is the creativity and ingenuity they possess, seemingly without even trying. They share their questions, ideas and dreams with me, and we all benefit from the experience. The reason they tell me their ideas, no matter how outrageous they might be, is the bond of trust we share. ... [Read More...]
