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Teambuilding has taken a bum rap!!!

This OD  intervention for organizations must be one of the most abused concepts in training and development in the Philippines. When organizations need an excuse or a shallow justification for a company outing, a picnic, a relaxing meeting at company expense, etc., the manager requests for a teambuilding activity.

Loosely taken, the teambuilding concept is applied to any unstructured get-together for an organizational unit just so it can justify a budget for an ordinary meeting, picnic, or a relaxing night-out at some beach resort in Batangas or in a nice hotel in the suburbs.  If any, activities in those outings include inappropriate but fun and maybe lewd games, drinking and socialization, unresolved attempts at problem solving, and more drinking.

Seriously speaking, teambuilding interventions in OD (the science of Organization Development) mean  structured activities designed for an organizational unit  1) to improve norms of socialization and working together; 2) for problem solving/resolution of work  issues and concerns; and 3) to welcome new leadership to a new unit.

Since organizational issues are better off diagnosed by outsiders bearing no internal perspectives and biases, teambuilding activities are better facilitated by outsiders. There are numerous consulting companies and freelance consultants competent in providing these services.