The capacity to work in teams is a vital skill that undergraduate and graduate students need to learn in order to succeed in their professional careers and personal lives. While teamwork is often part of the curriculum in elementary and secondary schools, undergraduate and graduate education is often directed at individual effort and testing that emphasizes solitary performance.
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Tonto Fielding has a new television reality show that he is pitching to several producers. In it, the members of the cast display an instinctive set of characteristics, not learned through written or spoken words, but instead, simply understood by all members of the group, who must follow these unspoken rules to be accepted and considered normal. Essentially they will interact under a mask of acceptable behavior with regards to the other members of the group with whom they choose to interact, respecting each other’s essential needs, wants, and desires. This will include safety, food, sleep and the emotions of love, pleasure, anger, and fear. The “hook” here, and what will differentiate it from other reality shows, is that the group will look for ways to fill each member’s essential needs. The better someone in the cast is at successfully interacting with others; the more likely he or she will be to have a large portion of their life and behavior influenced by the opinions of his peers. And then at the end of each show, the cast will have five minutes to verbally abuse, spit at, pull hair, punch, and claw each other.
MJM Books is back and better than ever thanks to our family outing/corporate retreat backpacking in the Colorado Rockies. We got a lot accomplished.
Team Building Exercise “Fallen Comrade”: Our challenge, carry a full cooler of tasty beverages, steaks, and bratwurst into the high country without dying of exhaustion.
No, my left! My left!
Outcome: Success. On the second day, we learned that we were famous. “We heard you guys brought a cooler way up here!”
Team Building Exercise “Orienteering”: The boys at MJM have a long history of veering off the trail. Will they stay the course or blaze a new path?
I thought YOU had the map.
Outcome: We’re not lost. We’re just misplaced.
Team Building Exercise “Brainstorming”: Without distractions like phones, TV, or running water, the brain trust meets to discuss the future.
Outcome: Success. We’ve charted a course that we hope to follow a little more closely than that silly trail map. Among the issues discussed: expanding our catalogue and “Fun Stuff” offerings.
Team Building Exercise “Extreme Winter Survival”: It’s supposed to be warm in August, right? Looks like no one told the weather. That’s right, white stuff falling on August 8th!
Are you serious?!
Outcome: A negligible amount of Frostbite.
Overall, our outing was a huge success. To get the family together and to expose little Olivia to this…
Made it all worthwhile.
Bye!
…
MJM Books is back and better than ever thanks to our family outing/corporate retreat backpacking in the Colorado Rockies. We got a lot accomplished.
Team Building Exercise “Fallen Comrade”: Our challenge, carry a full cooler of tasty beverages, steaks, and bratwurst into the high country without dying of exhaustion.
No, my left! My left!
Outcome: Success. On the second day, we learned that we were famous. “We heard you guys brought a cooler way up here!”
Team Building Exercise “Orienteering”: The boys at MJM have a long history of veering off the trail. Will they stay the course or blaze a new path?
I thought YOU had the map.
Outcome: We’re not lost. We’re just misplaced.
Team Building Exercise “Brainstorming”: Without distractions like phones, TV, or running water, the brain trust meets to discuss the future.
Outcome: Success. We’ve charted a course that we hope to follow a little more closely than that silly trail map. Among the issues discussed: expanding our catalogue and “Fun Stuff” offerings.
Team Building Exercise “Extreme Winter Survival”: It’s supposed to be warm in August, right? Looks like no one told the weather. That’s right, white stuff falling on August 8th!
Are you serious?!
Outcome: A negligible amount of Frostbite.
Overall, our outing was a huge success. To get the family together and to expose little Olivia to this…
Made it all worthwhile.
Bye!
…
