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...]

Update on The NEXTeams Process

I recently finished a course in Professional Facilitation Techniques and I am very excited to use these new techniques in the delivery of ‘The NEXTeams Process’.  I think that the combination of traditional team building exercises (de-inhibitizing games, problem-solving activities, and trust-building exercises – and “table-top” facilitation techniques (flip charts, dealing with dysfunction, group dynamics, etc…),... [Read More...]