Everybody has their preference, and when it comes to teambuilding event, my preference is to do something that, well, actually builds the team. You know, something that involves people working together to achieve a common goal, something that promotes team spirit, that sort of thing.
To me, sitting down together to have a meal is not teambuilding, it's just tummy-building. Neither is movie watching.
Think about it, it's like a lunch meeting really, where we sit down together and eat some food. Granted we probably won't be talking about work but you never know. Then instead of listening to whoever is presenting his or her agenda in a meeting, we sit in a darkened room watching movie producer presents his film on a big screen.
That's teambuilding? Really?
If it is teambuilding in someone's definition, it sure is a super boring one in my opinion. But then again, I don't consider that teambuilding.
When deciding the teambuilding event for this quarter, things started off well with many fun activities involving teamwork on the voting list: both outdoor and indoor physical and mental challenges and activities, a musuem tour (huh?), and the awful lunch & movie tummy-building option.
First round of voting ended with a tie between an outdoor physical challenge course and the lame tummy-building, with some minor votes on other options. So a second vote was held to decide whether we are going teambuilding or tummy-building.
Then the well-known food lover made his move. All it took was for him to send a discouraging e-mail dissing the physical challenge course and tada! My fellow teammates simply gave up and opted for the tummy-building. My goodness, so easily swayed!
Why oh why do they not even want to at least try and experience for themselves? So what if we can't complete some of the challenges? At least we have tried, right? You don't usually go to this kind of place on your own, you know? It's a place for group of people.
Wasted opportunity, such a shame.
*Sigh*
Bunch of softies.
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