Why is “teambuilding” often getting a ‘ ho-hum’ reaction by organisations and their staff? Two words: Ineffective results.

The reasons for an ineffective teambuilding exercise can be caused by several reasons. For starters, sometimes, teambuilding is the WRONG intervention. This can be if there is significant hostility in the group towards management or key individuals. Perhaps a group is currently re-negotiating a collective pay increase. In such cases, a different sort of intervention is needed. Many so-called teambuilding exercises or programmes stumble along, and are crippled with ” gripe sessions” about issues not related to teambuilding. A failure by a consultant or HR manager to customise a programme will lead to any one of the above undesirable outcomes arising. Read More…

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