You’ve Never Done Corporate Teambuilding Like This Before have you?

COL Mikel J. Burroughs — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:30:08 -0400

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 Private RallyPoint Member 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

You’ve Never Done Corporate Teambuilding Like This Before

Two combat vets are taking their military skills to the private sector by providing mission-focused, team-building events to New York companies.

Response by SFC Mark Merino made Aug 26 at 2015 3:36 PM

SFC Mark Merino — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:36:31 -0400

Looks straight out of ROTC training after 3rd year.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 26 at 2015 3:43 PM

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:43:48 -0400

My pleasure COL Mikel J. Burroughs.

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Aug 26 at 2015 8:44 PM

CPT Jack Durish — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:44:41 -0400

Reminds me of the Leadership Reaction Course we went through in Infantry OCS at Fort Benning in 1966. I thought it was a great idea then and still think so today. However, I think there's an added advantage. They could sell tickets to watch "senior management" attempt to navigate it. That or use the video as blackmail...

Response by SSG Warren Swan made Aug 27 at 2015 10:23 AM

SSG Warren Swan — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:23:07 -0400

Great idea, and I'm glad two veterans are behind it. I wish them much success!

Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Aug 27 at 2015 11:34 AM

MSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:34:09 -0400

Good for them...hope it works out..

Response by PO1 John Miller made Aug 29 at 2015 4:51 AM

PO1 John Miller — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 04:51:46 -0400

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.

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Aug 29 at 2015 8:56 AM

Cpl Jeff N. — Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:56:20 -0400

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.