When teambuilding goes bad
Stumble It!When a team building session goes wrong or out of control or slips into inappropriate behaviour it is not just the staff involved who will face the music but the senior executives in the company who allowed it to happen.
In Lawsuit Reveals Team Building Gone Berserk Workforce Management reports how a California company's use of spanking and humiliation as sales motivation tools led to a costly lawsuit.
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There was another incident on the east coast where an employee sued the company for using Water-boarding as a means of team building. Yes water-boarding.
Posted by: california team building | March 20, 2008 7:11 PM
Thanks Jason - unbelievable!
I think a lot of this kind of "team-building" is more about stroking the egos of control-freak managers/leaders than doing anything for teams.
Shame on any consultant or facilitator who goes along with it!
Ken
Posted by: ken thompson | March 21, 2008 11:03 AM
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When collaboration goes bad
Poor organisational intelligence leads to 'coblaboration' instead of collaboration.Harvard Professor, David Perkins, in his latest book, "King Arthur's Round Table : How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations", discusses the importance of "organisational Intelligence" and "developmental leadership" and how the absence of these leads to coblaboration rather than collaboration in organisational teams.
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