May 12th, 2009 What is corporate team building?
Corporate team building is just a fancy word for creating a team. Remember when you were a little kid and to build morale on the t-ball team your coach would promise to take the team out for ice cream if you won? Corporate team building is kind of like that, only instead of a t-ball uniform, the attire is a little more buttoned up more suits and shoes and less dirt and cleats.
Corporate team building can easily be achieved by a variety of methods depending on the type of business you are running or involved in. Even large companies thrive on a feeling of camaraderie and togetherness.
A good way to think about it is the NBC show “The Office”.
The show is about a paper company branch in Scranton, Pennsylvania. And despite everything, it is the most successful branch of the fictional paper company. Steve Carrell’s character Michael Scott is the king of corporate team building. Even if his methods may seem questionable, he wants his Dunder Mifflin office branch to run and operate just like a family. And of course, in families there is always going to be something to solve or overcome.
Whether it be a potluck or a softball team, corporate team building is important to the success of any company. You can teach as many leadership skills or business training methods as you want, but if there is not a desire to work for someone other than just yourself, the message of a company may be doomed to fail.
It’s all about getting along really. Michael Scott in “The Office” does what he has to do, even if it is unorthodox, and the joke is at his expense, to get the job done. If that means having a Café Disco in the storage closet, then he is game.
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