Team Building Done Wrong (Corporate Comedy Video)
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2012
- In this video, corporate comedian Don McMillan finds the funny in team building exercises gone wrong. Hiring a corporate comic for an unforgettable event? Avoid these these 3 common mistakes: bit.ly/2L8V9Nt
Corporate comedian Don McMillan talks about team building gone bad. You've probably been there, done that, and will know exactly what he's talking about.
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I met with some team builders once who said that whenever you have a “build a ....” exercise there are two groups that always do the best. Engineers, because they know the answer, and kindergartens because they start building right away and keep failing till they get something that works. The worst group was managers because they spend 90% of their time planning and organizing then barely have time to build the first attempt which fails.
Yet it's seen as the solution for all team issues. The truth is that relationships need to be strong before the trendy activities are used, then there's hope that something might come out of them...
We had one of those, I knew what to do so I told the rest of my team to go take a coffee break whilst I built the thing. We finished first.
In an ideal team you work to peoples'' strengths; mine was building things, negotiation, not so much.
Team's don't build things. A leader and workers build things.
We did something like this at HP. We broke into groups and were given a task
Execs did the minimum necessary and went to lunch
Engineers were still arguing about terms and specifications
We (the people persons) made friends with one another and had a party.
I'm in the engineer group...arguing about terms and specifications *is* a party by itself.
That's why I come home so knackered after a long day at work.
Did you have everyone take the Meyers-Briggs death test and talk about it for three days? That is what the federal team building events did. I suppose with AI coming of age a new personality test can be invented every year and it will be a real growth industry.
i can't hear people person without thinking of that scene in office space.
@@yossarianmnichols9641I hated taking the personality test, but I figured out what my personality is several months ago (ESTJ) and it actually explains a lot about how I think and about how others think differently. Especially after learning about the cognitive functions which influence how we make decisions (it may be pseudoscience but it seems to fit with the real world). But if you're forced to talk about at work that would definitely make it less interesting.
As a retired EE (electrical engineer) for forty years, I think Don McMillan is absolutely HILARIOUS!! I remember being "forced" to go to team building exercises. In fact, my company would make us all stay at a hotel for three days where they had a captive group (marketing and engineering). They ended up being extremely inefficient and a total waste of time. The engineers hated being there and the marketeers used it to suck up to the bosses.
We had one of these corporate jollies and one activity was to build a bridge out spaghetti.
This was a telecom firm and I couldn't believe I was the *only* engineer on any of the teams (even though I was an electrical and not civil/structural).
Our team won by a wide margin - but I got a 'booby prize' for being a bad sport, b/c I kept cheering when more weight was added to our bridge.🚂
The way you told your story makes me wonder if you are also a comedian at heart!
The engineers like their jobs and want to stay inside…YUP, THAT’S ME!
Every engineer must have a wife and a mistress. This way each will think he is with the other so he can go to the plant and get some real work done.
@@bobroberts2371 Or have neither and be able to focus without subterfuge!
@@mikejankowski6321 But in that case there will be dishes piled high in the kitchen sink.
@@bobroberts2371 Paper plates and red cups!
Team building? You know the fall backwards / have the team catch you exercise? Well, in order to show improvement, the team MUST drop the least liked person on the team so the ambulance can take them away.
Listen, doc says I can only sustain one more concussion. I could die...
Yes, team building is great if you have a proper team. For most cases though it won't do anything. For the workers in most cases, they're better off with a cash bonus.
It’s like they always say, “The best humor is corporate humor.”
"And then booked 200 orders!" So true!
The sales people would have booked 200 trips not the marketing people.
😮😮My team always hated team building. I was an auditor who spent 96.3% of my time in front of computers manipulating massive data bases, 3% of my time with employee documentation, 0.6% of my time meeting with my supervisor and 0.1% of my time with the team.
I was an Engineer trained in the Army.
We won in double-time.
Brains and brawn.
the guy is awesome
i like this
Funniest always fun
you know, don, you're an engineer, you're good with PC's.
So can you pleas get rid of the black box around the video?
Any ways, laughed my ass of :)
The marketing behind the new age BS is the real genius.
I agree on the marketing part, but they never do anything with the packaging. They just decide which princess to print on it. And they are not so good at it.
Sales are the ones that actually are running Microsoft.
While procurement, data scientists and engineers are actually the ones making things possible.
They do some data and market segment analysis work to direct demand "brand management" to suit a particular product, but that is about it.
Becareful, they get super sensitive if you talk about them, and their mouths will start working uncontrollably.
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You should see some of the stupid exercises that we had to endure at teachers meeting, plus they treated us like children, which is appropriate for elementary and middle school teachers. That last part sound insulting but here is an example to make my point.
We were at some stupid meeting to roll out another program designed to revolutionize education, like the dozens of others before it that failed within a year (you teachers know what I am talking about). There little children's toys on the tables, and the speaker was an idiot (not smart enough to be an imbecile or moron). He said he was going to list the things he did that morning before coming to the meeting, and if we also did it we were supposed to throw up our arms point upward toward him and holler, "just like me!" Our table which was comprised of high school Chemistry and Physics Teachers did not participate in his stupid childish activity. After about the third time, some middle school teacher at the next table raised his hand and tattled like an immature child. He pointed to us and said, "They're not doing it!"
To be fair I've heard teachers can make poor students. And I think it's immature to call the speaker an idiot because you didn't agree with his methods.
Some people don't mind that kind of thing for some reason. But I hatetit too and didn't like it when I WAS a kid. We sang a song called "Pizza Daddy-O" when I was in second grade and I didn't sing because it was the dumbest song ever.
Youd need industrial engineers...
My dad's an electrical engineer but has some skill in other areas too and was originally a physics major. I would think another kind of engineer might be able to build a boat that would float (rhyme not intended).
It's too peopley outside.
Dwarf tossing usually works best for team building!
Team building? You know the fall backwards / have the team catch you exercise? Well, in order to show improvement, the team MUST drop the least liked person on the team so the ambulance can take them away.
Don't tell the elf!
kindergarten = ta-di-ka
There is theft, and then there is marketing. Highier level of steeling.
How many times you been told you look like Woody ? Brothers
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