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Team Building Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning. It comes from the Greek "semantikos", which suggests that "giving signs". Wikipedia includes in its definition of the word that it "is often utilized in standard language to denote a drawback of understanding that comes all the way down to word choice or connotation". Well, have I got a massive one for you.

Team building. There. I've said it. Have a look at it, carefully. It provides a decent, careful description of what it denotes. Thus why do therefore many individuals go wrong?

The phrase solely has 2 words in it, yet the phrase gets used for things that miss out one or the other of those on a regular and frequent basis. Typically it gets used for things that contain neither of the constituent words. Why is that this?

Well, it's the "Xerox" have an effect on, conjointly referred to as the "Hoover" effect. Many years ago when the topic matter in question  was in its infancy, something took root in people's minds and transposed a particular product onto the market as a whole. Photocopiers, regardless of who the manufacturer is, are referred to as xeroxes. Vacuum cleaners are hoovers, even when the technology is totally different and they are made by Dyson. "Team building" wasn't the provider's name of the first ever team away day event, however the circumstances in that it was coined became associated with it. Those circumstances concerned a field, some equipment and a half physical, part cerebral challenge. I could not tell you what that was, however I'd guess at raft building or something involving planks, a bucket and a faux nuclear device. A minimum of, I hope it was pretend.

So now, say those two magic words to most folks and that they instantly think of something that happens outside. They conjointly tend to associate one or more adjectives to it like boring, terrifying and pointless. So let's look at some typical events, obtainable (albeit below slightly totally different activity names) from several team building suppliers nationally.

The primary is a stalwart of the many a team away day - quad biking. How does this fare against the term? Well, it's a private sport. Forget tries to grant different coloured helmets to people in an attempt to make it look like all the green ones are within the inexperienced team and so on. Sat on top of a powerful quad bike with all those hills and mud to face, no-one cares about their team. They just need to possess fun! Nothing wrong with that, however why say it's something to try and do with groups? For that matter, why say it's anything to do with building either? Yes it'll be fun for those who like that kind of thing. Yes, it's going to bring the group closer along, providing no-one has been forced to try to to it pretty much against their can that is. It will be a great "colleague bonding" day. However team building? No.

A more recently widespread option has been company drumming. Let's take a look at that. Team? Yes, absolutely. Not everybody will suppose this is often an incredible time, it's simply too one-dimensional for that. However it is actually team oriented. Building? No. It can purport to put across the message that harmony is good and everyone needs to play their part, but you could do that with a motivational poster featuring The Beatles or the London Symphony Orchestra and a nice tagline. Building is concerning using a structured process to create something bigger or better than it was before. Team building is concerning serving to team members find additional effective ways of working. Drumming isn't ever going to supply that. Decision it "team bonding" and I'm happy. No semantical argument.

Therefore, if you really wish team building instead of a colleague or team bonding session, certify (a) it truly involves some quite teamwork and (b) it's a structured process capable of delivering team enhancements back at work. The Greeks have a word for that. `E??????. It suggests that smart.

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