Have you ever been troubled by team building activities? You might think that team building is more of a torture challenge than work or communicating with clients. Is that really the case? February** Dynamic Incentive Program
The ideal team building activities full of happy times should be colorful, but in reality, team building often makes people feel depressed: helpless social situations, "beautiful portraits" of leaders with empty words, disguised work pressure, thrilling outdoor survival challenges, etc. Among them, ** once reported that a company confiscated employees' mobile phones during team building activities, which eventually led to 12 employees being trapped in the mountains, but fortunately they were rescued to get out of danger. This is an appalling situation! It's amazing.
According to a survey, among the negative impacts caused by the team-building activities carried out by enterprises, military training and training occupy the top spot, becoming the most difficult team building activities for migrant workers to accept. Imagine, who would have thought that you would have the opportunity to stand in a military posture and sing military songs in camouflage again?
If military training is frustrating enough, then even worse, some companies are very considerate in preparing lectures and basic life skills courses for their employees. For example, guiding employees to the president's villa to clean, grow vegetables, and do all kinds of hard physical labor is undoubtedly a great psychological pressure for employees.
In addition, if you are still a single dog, then the leaders will also arrange various blind date activities. This undoubtedly left the employees feeling exhausted and even a little scared. Therefore, whether in terms of form or connotation, team building is difficult to convince.
If none of the things just mentioned are enough to make you smack, then the next "reverse team building" such as asking employees to slap each other, kneel collectively, lick the smelly water in the toilet, etc., directly erases the dignity of employees.
Many companies often choose to have a team building day on Saturdays and Sundays. Employees who had just finished a busy week of work had to wake up at 6 a.m. in the hope of catching up on the weekend, leaving them even more frustrated than facing ghosts. Some more over-the-top enterprises may even require employees to share transportation costs, catering costs and venue costs, in this case, the majority of workers can really only "spend money on themselves, vigorously support the boss", in the face of such a situation, try to ask which employee can enjoy it?
You can earn money by working overtime, at least not at all, and team building costs money! Employees sacrifice precious leisure time, live in unfamiliar places at their own expense, eat bad food, play boring games, and if they are unlucky, they have to serve the boss before and after the saddle, in the face of such team building, there is no freedom of choice, and can only accept boring and boring games or sports that lack innovation; Listen to the leader talk on stage or participate in a song and dance competition for tired people; In the face of the return of the wine table culture, even if you resist it in your heart, you must hold up your wine glass; Even the implementation of unreasonable regulations is accompanied by flattery of unattainable ten-year plans.
In fact, many people's real feelings about team building are not disgust itself, but disgusted with some kind of team building activities that have lost their original intention and changed their taste. If you can carry out a full range of team building activities on a relaxed and happy working day, enjoy delicious food and wine, and enjoy it freely, all the expenses are borne by the unit, I am afraid that no one will express disgust anymore, right? At the end of the day, it's not team building itself that people are afraid of, it's those that are utilitarian and coercive.
Today's team building is more of a form than substance, and although it seems lively on the surface, it is actually not really cohesive. We should think about how to rethink team building activities to make them more relevant to the actual needs of employees, more diverse and multi-layered, so that everyone can benefit from them.