At AOL, we seemed to thrive on doing team building events. I haven’t done any since I’ve been at my current company. My first team building event that doesn’t involve drinking at a bar is tomorrow at our all hands.
At our September All Hands meeting, we are going to spend most of the meeting reviewing the data and comments from the Customer Satisfaction Survey we did in August.
In addition to the normal project updates, and priorities, this one will involve a team building exercise. Here’s the instructions:
- Breakout the department into teams of five people who they normally don’t work with.
- Review the customer satisfaction survey results.
- Propose five recommendations to address low scores.
- Post their recommendations on our IT Ops Wiki page.
- Appoint a spokesperson and have them present the information back to the entire department.
They’ll have 20 minutes to perform the exercise. The goal is have people come out of their shells and meet other people in the department. A secondary and equally important goal is to give a real life example of how easy it is to post content that is available to everyone via a Sharepoint Wiki.
Sharepoint isn’t just for posting files in document libraries. It can be much more. Hopefully this team building exercise will leave an impression with the team that will help them think differently about how easy it is to collaborate.
I’ll post the recommendations once they are done. This should be fun.
