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Sunday, May 6th, 2012“
We realise that here, we spend a lot of time dealing with day-to-day management of staff and personnel, meetings and schedules, as well as how technology is helping businesses string it all together.
As the comments on that thread showed, a lot of businesses wanted the results.
They just didnt want to sacrifice the staff time! Luckily there are other options. Organised sports have their place in workplace culture and, lets face it, so does an open bar.
You dont tend to see many work functions, birthdays or end of year parties that arent awash with complimentary alcohol.
But team building games and activities with a softer, more subtle approach are gaining popularity as they encourage the sort of teambuilding and collaborative thinking that sports typically encourage, but without the openly competitive elements that give people cause to switch off or detach from competitive team building games. The emphasis on these activities is fun, educational and practical. Participants are given tasks to complete in a way very much removed from traditional business setups: were talking racing through the city streets (think The Amazing Race and youre on the right lines), whipping up culinary delights on portable stoves in the middle of a city park, or working on a great tour around city landmarks to showcase the very best of team building Melbourne has to offer.
The landscape is changing for these kinds of activities. By scheduling even half a day per year from a busy organisational schedule, the benefits roll on in and one of the reasons the benefits last is the way in which these teambuilding courses are so different from the bog-standard, predictable corporate fun day stuff weve all become too familiar with.
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