Posted on Aug 26, 2015
You’ve Never Done Corporate Teambuilding Like This Before have you?
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You’ve Never Done Corporate Teambuilding Like This Before have you?
What are your comments RP Members?
RP Members this is some great stuff! Taking what you've learned in the military and applying it to the civilian corporate boardroom. I've seen a lot of these pop over the years that were put together by veterans!
I've actually participated in them in the civilian world as part of leadership team and they can be a blast and a great learning experience for all.
Thanks SGT (Join to see) for sharing this article with me!
http://taskandpurpose.com/youve-never-done-corporate-teambuilding-like-this-before/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-today
What are your comments RP Members?
RP Members this is some great stuff! Taking what you've learned in the military and applying it to the civilian corporate boardroom. I've seen a lot of these pop over the years that were put together by veterans!
I've actually participated in them in the civilian world as part of leadership team and they can be a blast and a great learning experience for all.
Thanks SGT (Join to see) for sharing this article with me!
http://taskandpurpose.com/youve-never-done-corporate-teambuilding-like-this-before/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tp-today
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs This looks a little like the types of exercises they do at the crucible at Parris Island. You get an objective to complete, you have certain implements you can use and the team needs to figure out how to use said implements to complete it.
Over my 28 years in corporate American (fortune 100 type companies) I've had the opportunity to do some of these sorts of events. I have mixed feelings on them. One thing it can demonstrate is leaders that may not exhibit solid leadership skills (they try to take over everything, boss folks around and end up messing up) but there is little/no follow up to correct the person going forward. The worst outcome is some of the people that complete it think they now understand what a special forces, ranger, force recon, SEAL is up against every day.
I end to agree a bit with CW5 Charlie Poulton if you need this sorts of things to get people engaged and doing their job you may have the wrong people or a bad culture you should be looking at.
One thing I have done is battlefield tours where you have an expert in the area walk the areas with you and talk about the battle, key decisions, leaders etc. I did one of those at Normandy with a British Army Major General, talk about interesting.
Over my 28 years in corporate American (fortune 100 type companies) I've had the opportunity to do some of these sorts of events. I have mixed feelings on them. One thing it can demonstrate is leaders that may not exhibit solid leadership skills (they try to take over everything, boss folks around and end up messing up) but there is little/no follow up to correct the person going forward. The worst outcome is some of the people that complete it think they now understand what a special forces, ranger, force recon, SEAL is up against every day.
I end to agree a bit with CW5 Charlie Poulton if you need this sorts of things to get people engaged and doing their job you may have the wrong people or a bad culture you should be looking at.
One thing I have done is battlefield tours where you have an expert in the area walk the areas with you and talk about the battle, key decisions, leaders etc. I did one of those at Normandy with a British Army Major General, talk about interesting.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing. I think more corporations could benefit from military-type team building exercises.
I'm sure a lot of us have experienced the "me" mentality in the civilian workforce and would like to see more "what's best for the team" here in civilian-land and this kind of thing could help build that.
Thanks for sharing. I think more corporations could benefit from military-type team building exercises.
I'm sure a lot of us have experienced the "me" mentality in the civilian workforce and would like to see more "what's best for the team" here in civilian-land and this kind of thing could help build that.
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