In case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of companies out there claiming expertise in team building. Some of these will have you playing pin the tail on the donkey, or running around on a scavenger hunt.

When I worked for Marriott in the cafeteria management business way back in the last century, one of the rules the old dogs taught young managers was to go into your buildings through a different door every day. There were good reasons for this.

The Case for Team Building Training:

Team building training provides a great mix of activity, classroom learning, and measurement that can deliver better performance.  Here are three things to ponder:

Everyone is looking for the quick fix. We want that elixir that makes our pain go away, whatever that pain may be.

The ASTD Learning Circuits blog featuring Tony Karrer provides some great questions and discussions.  What I like the most about it is you can keep on digging and find sub discussions that go on and on.  It’s really very cool.  The subject of ROI came up (as it often does).