Let’s establish that these games and team-building exercises really are stupid. One can argue (and I do) that all games are stupid. For a red-blooded ‘American Male’ to say this (AKA me) could be seen as heresy here in Chicago, land of ’da Bears, Bulls and Cubs. We love our animals here in the Midwest. I could go somewhere with that comment, however won’t.
Give me a break about football. What really happens? You are playing the game and on the line. Then you catch a ball. Everyone over 200 pounds leaps up and pounces on you. So that’s fun? Or take baseball. A small ball is thrown at over 90 MPH directly at you. Then, you attempt to hit this ball with a stick. These games are defined as ‘really fun’ in our culture. You’re kidding, right?
So stupid team-building games are just as stupid as regular games. So ok, having a marble rolled down a PVC pipe into a cup and then to celebrate victory—that has to be as stupid as football or baseball. Or get a group of people over a fake ‘river’ by walking on blue squishy things that belong in a health club. Celebrating that as a wildly successful phenomenon, if you complete it in under ten minutes, is insane. That is what we do: marble in pipes and blue squishy things as stepping stones. Stupid games all.
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