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my right hand man is racist
Your right hand man needs sacking. Be an Ally to all those who have to put up with this absolute BS every day. Get him fired ASAP.
your salary is for getting the job done. Indeed the OP is in “Education” and there’s a lot of that attitude in that sector.
The trouble with that attitude in education is that the job is never done, there is always something else you could do. This is what burns teachers out if they don't learn how to manage that expectation.
Thanks for all your replies, the concept of a pretentious team building presentation makes me 🤮 so I'm gonna nick some of your ideas and use some of my own and give a talk without slides on my experiences of it and how I think it is realistically applied in a financially constrained setting. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻
sightseeing tour in Barcelona? LandRover Driving in Skipton, long weekend in Majorca? Long weekend in the Azores?
We got a week away at a hotel in Skipton, did the landrover bit, not the sight seeing in Barcelona or the Azores.
It was part of a training week and all the manage meetings were aligned while we were all together.
Did it boost the team? Not sure, did the meals and drinks in the evening help bond us.
Boosting moral for my team involves stopping work, invariably sitting atop a bridge pier, watching the view and having a laugh. Best way to boost moral when conditions are bad. Let them know we all need to take a bite out of the shit sandwich, pull together and get through it and I'll take the biggest bite.
Not read whole thread and not sure how much time you have...
The Fearless Organisation and The Wisdom of Teams are two brief and very accessible books.tnat give a good academic side to the theory of team performance,.and why teams fail.
The Wisdom of Teams
isn’t that Joe Abercrombie’s latest Third Law novel?
OP just play a highlights reel of the A-Team building a tank from some left over bits of 2x4, a wheelbarrow and a mop.
Through my career i've done a fair few team building activities, ranging from younger days doing adventure training and so on, to team building consultants having a group that were half military and half civilian engineers building with lego for half a day that may have been good on paper, but to a group of engineers, basically making us do an exercise of bad practices for engineering!
Reality is, team building can do more harm than good in some instances, so being the opposite of motivational, areas of poor team building for me is the usual suspects, so death by powerpoint, mandating attendance over everything, especially if it involves day trips or overnight stays, most companies see a tick box once a year team building event as that, there is no gradual build up, it's all the team, at once, even worse, getting an exterior team to do the team building without understanding the actual team and their interactions. There's nothing worse than going through a day (or two) of team building, and having your side chats filled with 'why didn't they do this' or 'it would have been better to do...', get input from the team, or similar teams to see if there's good practice, of course you don't do what they want, like go bowling and down the pub, but you avoid demoralising them as well.
Oh yeah, and note your company policies, another thing about team building events is that they are for everyone, no point having a day out hiking and a pub lunch if you have members who have disabilities, it has to be for all, you may also have to do a risk assessment for any event involving activities, so might struggle to get assault courses or mountain biking 😂
I'd like to hire TJ for our next teambuilding event. Stick him on a spinny chair and form a circle. The person he stops in front of must argue with TJ for 15 minutes on a subject chosen by the last arguee. Spin and repeat 🙂
LOLz
Pick a topic Rich and tell me which side to argue!
The trouble with that attitude in education is that the job is never done, there is always something else you could do. This is what burns teachers out if they don’t learn how to manage that expectation.
@spin I’m not disagreeing with you on that - but presumably the OP wants the job so giving a presentation on how he opposes anything which is not paid overtime (has anyone ever paid you overtime as a teacher?) is totally unfair is not going to go down particularly well. (Equally I’d imagine if they said I’ll take my new team bike packing in the highlands, I’ve got all the kit so it’s ideal to suit your budget of zero, that some of the interview panel would be astute enough to realise some people might object to that time commitment!)
I’m not disagreeing with you on that – but presumably the OP wants the job so giving a presentation on how he opposes anything which is not paid overtime (has anyone ever paid you overtime as a teacher?) is totally unfair is not going to go down particularly well
I wasn't replying to the op! 😀
isn’t that Joe Abercrombie’s latest Third Law novel?
It's a book by Katzenbach and Smith .no idea who Joe is!
"Is this the right room for an argument?"
"No"
"You said it was"
"No I didn't "
I've just delivered it.
I focused on 5 things that could be implemented into the everyday workplace that build upon the team.
Pretty much all face to face daily things that could be incorporated into meetings, daily working. No holidays away, no Land Rover driving, no Lego, no puzzles or raft building.
I guess the common theme was that the individuals within the team got recognition for who they are and what they bring to the team, hopefully creating a positive workplace / team experience for them and thus adding to staff retention, building on resilience within the team plus some other stuff.
What I actually delivered is all things that I really like about the team I work in now, which makes me confused about wanting to leave.......