{"id":20908,"date":"2013-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/team-building-or-community\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:52:09","slug":"team-building-or-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/team-building-or-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Team building or community?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve been watching our social spaces, Twitter and Facebook, this week, you may have seen a couple of enigmatic tweets with pictures of tools, numbered – clues to something. As promised, today all becomes clear….<\/p>\n

Those who follow this blog regularly will know that our CEO, Kevan Hall, often talks about both ‘dogfooding’ (doing the things we talk about with others – we are a virtual team ourselves), and about the costs of bringing even a small international team together.<\/p>\n

We (and our customers) really need to make the most of scarce face to face time, be clear about our objectives and design our events to meet them.\u00a0So when Global Integration’s Global team meets (twice a year) its important that we make the best of the time.<\/p>\n

Our meetings always have certain key elements, updates, looking at the business, celebrating<\/a> and challenging our own practises – and we always include some community building.\u00a0There are, of course, lots of ‘solitary’ (done alone) activities that we could do, that would be great fun, but are anything but team-building (such as driving). Of course, some community building will happen around those kinds of events or in the evening, but the community building is a by-product, not part of the activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things that have worked well for us in the past include white water rafting, circus school , stunt school, and horse whispering.<\/span>This activity is always:<\/span><\/p>\n