How not to turn your office into a playground

I am totally for work life balance, totally for team work and totally for tasks and actions that build the team to act as one and help the company to prosper.

 

But there is a fine line which should be kept if you want your teams and the whole company to grow in the right direction instead of becoming a kindergarten playground in the middle of the office.

 

 

 

Rule no. 1:

If you really want to organize team building activities then do it so that everyone takes part in it on a rota basis or better don't do anything (believe me, it is f* doable, if you can't then either 1. don't deal with it or 2. learn to do it, or simply leave the job for someone who can do it)

 

Rule no. 2:

Assign people to deal with team building activities who:

1. Are good organizers

2. Have common sense

 

3. Don't always pick their preffered ones for activities and leave out others from games just because they don't like their hair color for example (a very good example that this person still belongs to kindergarden)

4. Can make difference between activities that just are fun at work (basically waste time) and activities that develop staff on a personal and also professional level

 

Rule no. 3:

Don't lie to people about obvious facts (ex. you have no clue why you do what you do) and honestly just simply do a plan for the whole year for the sake of team building activities in which you detail what, how and why you do and when of course.

 

Rule no. 4:

Make everyone and most importantly the team builder one thing to understand though the activities help them to relax and enjoy time on a personal level but it is there improve them on a professional level.

 

Rule no. 5:

There is nothing more demotaving than sitting in offices or at workplaces where the only thing you see that everyone is running around as a headless chicken, pretending of doing something useful and actually not making anything just hanging around at the work place under the cover of: "SERIOUSLY THOUGH ORGANIZERS THAT WANT THE BEST FOR EVERYONE" and let's face the facts, actually don't give a shit.

 

Now back to my usual saying: "The more places I work at" the more I realize that actually half of the team is useless, the other half though having the skills and drive has no chance to change anything because the power lies in hands of the first halves. 

 

Welcome to the 21st century, the century of the headless chickens who lead most of the companies and have no clue what's happening around them, or "better", don't care...

 

 

 

Please do something about this and change if you can, before in the mainstream your company becomes one of the worst voted for and sinks with your playground...