Planning a Team Building Event

When selecting a team building service provider for your organization, it is important to know what you are expecting to get out of the activity. If you know your goals going into the program, you are more likely to make the right choice in who you contract with for the event and what type of activities you plan for your team. Here are a few simple questions to ask yourself prior to booking your provider: What is the main purpose for the event? ... [Read More...]

Traditional Facilitated Team Development vs Do It Yourself Teambuilding

Traditional Team Building vs Team Building DIY Let’s face it – not every group is looking for a deep and penetrating reworking of their team dynamics. Not everyone wants to learn how to trust their co-workers on a deeper and richer level. Sometimes, you want to simply have some fun, in a novel setting, with people who you normally only see in meetings, at lunch, or at the occasional holiday office party. Major differences between “Traditional”... [Read More...]

Adventure Challenge on The National Mall

Last week we had the good fortune to run an Adventure Challenge – a self-led, rotational-style of team building event – for a DC not-for-profit.  The Charles G Koch Foundation (a charitable foundation whose mission is international development through societal prosperity initiatives) asked us to provide a recreational team building event that would create unity, enhance communication, and improve interactions between the new and older... [Read More...]

Teamwork vs Teamplay

Planning for an Effective Team Building Event When planning for a team building event, it is extremely important to know what your goals are.  Is the program meant to be a stand-alone team energizer, or does your group have serious goals and critical outcomes?  Is the goal teamwork or teamplay? Yesterday I ran a short team building event for 90 members of a local sorority.  The event was part of their yearly kick-off, and the group had a great... [Read More...]