Month: February 2016

How to Avoid the Team Building Stigma

How to Avoid the Team Building Stigma

Working at a team building company, it’s easy to put on your rose-colored glasses and believe that everyone finds team building as fun and interesting as we do. However, despite the thousands of converts whose minds we’ve changed, we’re well aware of the stigma that team building carries and how it can elicit eye rolls from more cynical employees—or those that have had bad experiences with cheesy games, over-the-top facilitators, and heavy-handed metaphors such as the universally loathed trust fall. While we’ve got an excellent track record for winning over the most skeptical participants, we realize as a manager it’s