Challenge By Choice and Resistance to Team Building
I hate this sort of thing”, “What are they going to make us do?”, “Do I have to go?” – all common comments and questions when certain team members are ‘faced with’ a team building day. Follow ‘team building’ on Twitter and you’ll see these types of comments almost every day.
So, how to win these ‘resistors’ over – after all, you;re not paying money for your team to not enjoy the experience.
Your team will probabaly have extremes – young to old, fit to unfit, pregnant to not pregnant… so the first thing is that any team building event you choose should cater to these extremes.
The key philosophy here is that all activities on team building events should be on a “challenge by choice” basis – that is, you can opt out of a particular activity if you wish. Events should be designed with this in mind.