Guides
The parts that decide whether it works
Choosing the activity is the easy half. These are about the other half: the debrief, the format, the access design, and the seven reasons sessions fail that have nothing to do with the activity.
How to choose a team building activity
Start from the problem, not the catalogue. Five questions that eliminate about ninety per cent of the options.
Virtual team building that does not flop
Most remote sessions fail for four specific, fixable reasons. None of them is the activity.
The debrief is the activity
Fifteen minutes of structured questions is what turns an afternoon out into something a team refers back to.
Measuring whether team building worked
Smile sheets measure the catering. Here is what to measure instead, and what you honestly cannot.
Why team building fails
Seven failure modes, each of which is a design problem rather than an attitude problem.
Inclusive and accessible team building
Designed in, it is invisible. Bolted on, it is an announcement about who the event was built for.
Planning a company offsite
A running order that works, the mistakes that are hard to recover from, and how much to schedule.
What team building costs you, besides money
The expensive resource is usually attention, not budget. How to spend both deliberately.