Forget About Team Building!

(EXERCISES, ACTIVITIES, CHALLENGES,GAMES, RETREATS, ETC.)

If you’re open-minded, please give us a few minutes to offer

you a life-changing alternative. Otherwise, break a leg!

We pray that your colleagues will not get bored … or hurt.

Team building is said to:

Increase productivity


Increase productivityMinimize conflict



Improve communication



Improve communicationBoost morale



Improve communicationBoost morale

Improve teamwork

Many, if not most, people hate team building exercises!

Here are some of the countlessremarks that we found online:

Even if we all liked team building exercises, and all team

building exercises were effective…

Though your colleagues are physically united by your organization, they are mentally divided

by things that those who sell team building exercises fail to address.

Things whose effect is more detrimental to the success of your organization than whatever

problems that team building is said to solve!

LANGUAGENATIONALITY

MONEYRELIGIONCULTURE

Seemingly harmlessthings such as:

Without language, a “team” is merely a group of people who just happen to be

near each other.

Language is by far the most important tool to any group of people who are working together in pursuit of a common goal.

Yet, most people are ignorant of language’s shortcomings.

Because of that, a word or statement sometimes means different things to

different people.

Believe it or not, your colleagues’ ignorance of language’s shortcomings might or might have cost your organization some of its customers,both current or then-current and prospective

or then-prospective customers.

Nationality has divided your team into “Nigerians,” “Indians,” “Americans,” etc.

Inevitably, that has led to the “us-and-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people

who are supposedly united!

The monetary system has divided your team into:

“the rich,”

“the middle class,” “the poor,”

et cetera.

We might have never heard of your organization…

… but chances are that not everybody is paid equally.

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Because of that, some of your colleagues are not in the same social class, even though they work for the very same organization.

What’s more, most of your colleagues secretly see some of your colleagues as competitors!

(For a position, via promotion, which they seek primarily for its monetary rewards.)

Inevitably, that has led to the “me-vs-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people


Religion has divided your team into “believers” and “nonbelievers.”

“Believers” were then divided into “Christians,” “Muslims,” “Jews,” etc.

“Christians” were then divided into “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” “Lutherans,” “Anglicans,” “Roman Catholics,” etc.

As we all know, our culture has greatly shaped how we see the world.

Culture is so powerful that it usually dictates what one feels or sees when one

looks at someone or something.

— The Okay Sign —

Show it to your colleagues, and those who are from, say, America, will interpret it as, “That’s great”

or “Everything is good.”

However, your colleagues from, say, (some regions of) Germany,

will each interpret it as, “Asshole!” or “You’re an asshole!”

Because of nothing but cultural conditioning:

Your colleagues cannot sincerely tolerate each other … unless they are acquainted

with how one’s culture shapes one’s worldview, beliefs, behaviour, taste, etc.

Yet, you have decided to spend, or are considering spending, your organization’s hard-earned money on team building …

as if whatever problems that team building is said to solve are the most serious threat

to the success of your organization!

1. PROLOGUE

2. LANGUAGE

3. CULTURE

4. MONEY

5. COUNTRIES

6. RELIGION

7. EPILOGUE

BOOK CHAPTERS

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We’re fully aware that reading a book isn’t as entertaining as playing paintball,

driving a go-kart, riding a quad bike, etc.

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That said, the problem that this book is an antidote to requires something that will leave your colleagues enlightened, not entertained.

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