Chapter 12. APPLICATIONS AND TEAM EXERCISES

 

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

 
 --Vince Lombardi
 

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

—Henry Ford

 
 --Henry Ford

A variety of group activities fall under the rubric of team-building. Essentially there are three kinds of activities.

  1. The most basic team-building exercises are recreational in nature. Activities like golf, skiing, bowling, rafting, cruising, picnics, movies, casino nights, and a variety of assorted outings are designed to bring people together to bond outside the standard work environment. It is presumed this recreational interaction improves team chemistry and ...

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