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Drinking beer is good for teambuilding?
No school like the old school. Well the construction of the old school style computer is when the boss has computer out of beer. It is tried and true, but is it really effective?
Consider a team-building experience good that:
1) Provide a shared experience
2) Increase awareness among participants
3) Level the playing field among colleagues
4) Build trust
5) Increase self-awareness
Let's break down and see if the old school, working as a team.
How drinking beer with fellow team score on these five elements of team building? We will on a scale from 1 (low) to 10 (high).
1) Drinking beer provides a shared experience. At its end, a shared experience is the sergeant. Hulka boot camp phenomenon. Putting people through an activity where they have an intense experience (albeit poor), and usually builds camaraderie in the long term. It is the common bond of achieving a common goal and memories shared.
We'd give a beer October 5 in this case. Sometimes the problems around the experience are not very challenging, and at night Beery everything can be forgotten. Sometimes the stories are exchanged, bar games are played, and the night leaves everyone more relaxed and aware of some things that are happening in the lives of their colleagues.
2) Drinking beer promotes disclosure. The disclosure is to win trust. Confidence is based on computer. Why? When you tell me about yourself, you're doing an investment in me, in us. You grant me the honor of trusting me with that information. Second, the disclosure may reveal some talent on himself that I have no knowledge of, a talent that could one day give me a little comfort when the time comes for me to choose whether I can trust you or not. By example, a manager discovers that his new analyst is also an amateur actress. Then, may be more comfortable when the analyst has to make a presentation major investor during holiday week.
Beer gets a 9 out of 10 in the disclosure. Although the beer can lead to information disclosure wrong, especially if one drinks too much, loosen the pub environment and provides some history on every one of us that are passed around. The atmosphere promotes disclosure. The purpose of being in a bar for socializing. Above all, this is a good thing.
3. Drinking beer in the levels the playing field. The hierarchy of the office should be left aside as much as you can to the hidden talents and abilities to come out, and for mutual respect and relationships to grow. Everyone must feel they can contribute to what is happening. If we all feel like we have to do what the boss says, period, then the playing field is not level.
Beer gets a 7 in this case. Once you're in the bar, the hierarchy gets all over. Yes, you may still laugh at the head of jokes, but the leader of the experience is more probably the most attractive member of the team, or the best player of darts, or more fun. The downside? Some people do not like bars or pubs, so some team members could not participate. (Actually Down side is not a bad name for a bar, right?)
4. Drinking beer generates confidence. Good experience forces us to rely on others to succeed, and requires different skills required to do our work every day. This is unlikely happens in the bar, unless your team has to win at darts against the forces of evil (talk about "old school"), which just happened to choose the same bar for his work as a team.
Beer gets a 3 on the creation of trust. In general, direct confidence building is going on here. But still gets a 3 because we can put a brand promoted by the 'box outreach and as we said, this is a step foundation for building confidence.
5. Drink Beer enhances the self a good team experience includes time for structured introspection, where participants have the opportunity to cross-react experience and think about their reactions, their communication and their effect on others.
Apart from the scruffy taxi home and taking the tie or earrings off front bathroom vanity is not much. Drinking beer gets a 1 in self-awareness.
Total score: Drink beer was 25 of 50 on our scale of work team. Significant, but not a home run.
But we will see results from a glass half full. Armed with this awareness of what makes experience good teamwork, and knowing that a simple trip to the local watering hole can get you half way, can not be so hard to get a plan for an experience team-building potentially huge.
When most people think of an experience of teamwork, usually involves a certain element risk, physical decline that confidence cliché, a ropes course, a treasure hunt, or a mock Olympics. Hidden talents emerge the hierarchy can change, and if it is configured correctly and so questioned, self-awareness will be enhanced. We help each other through this challenge, and all we have a good laugh and feel good about the support and the support of our colleagues. A team physical challenge makes people out of their heads, and outside of the hierarchy – especially professional if provided as Outward Bound adventures – and may be the right decision to help a group improve its performance.
There are risks. What is the bad side? (Besides a great name for a bar?) A disadvantage is that it is too far from the work environment, and without providing for dialogue, never learning potential surfaces. A second problem is that someone gets hurt. As fast as it takes to get a poke in the eye or a sprained ankle, for the benefit of the experience can be undone.
The truth is that you can build a sense of team around any type of content. Make a wish about what his team could do better, and turn that desire in a team-building, skill-building event. Instead of climbing mountains, make the approach to overcome the obstacles new problem solving skills. Instead of cooking, making the content of a recipe to listen and give feedback. Instead of wine tasting: a meeting on how to cultivate an environment that values innovation. Instead of a treasure hunt, a public speaking session to find ways to make clear and effective presentations.
It is Layers: be deliberate about achieving multiple objectives every time your computer is face to face. Team Building and at the same time, develop lasting skills; skills that are useful professionally and personally, and lay the foundation for team communication and work together more effectively.
And then conclude with a beer, for sure better than a poke in the eye.
About the Author
Tim Dunne is an innovation and creativity facilitator based in Paris and New York. For sixteen years, Tim has been using structured creativity to help his clients sell better, develop products, build leadership skills and design strategy.
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