Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Bosses always want to boost morale, improve communication between staff members and in the end increase productivity, so why don’t all organisations send their staff to team development events?
Is it because some of these courses can suffer because they evoke negative thoughts – many connected to the humorous events portrayed on TV shows?
For certain, the wisdom of David Brent from television’s “The Office” have forced middle management personnel to look in the mirror and wonder if that’s who they reflect.
Amongst Brent’s many, now well-known, quotes the one that most accurately summarises his thinking about working as a team reads: “There may be no ‘I’ in team, but there’s a ‘ME’ if you look hard enough”.
If you watched the show, you may remember the funny instalment in which a team development expert visited the Wernam Hogg offices. Brent quickly took control, and transformed the meeting into essentially a celebration of him, including an interpretation of his seminal 1980s pop ballad “Free Love on the Freelove Freeway” on acoustic guitar.
However, in real life team development events are nothing like the cringe worthy and soul-destroying nightmare depicted in the show.
Many organisations across the country now offer business organisations the chance to take their staff out of the office and away on a team building day.
Team building allows staff members to learn and develop the tools and skills essential to push business growth plus sustain development and improvement.
And despite worldwide economies being in the midst of a recession, staff development remains essential to business growth. In fact, it is even more important, as when the recession stops there will certainly be chances for the best-run businesses to take advantage of the developing market.
Team development can take many forms, from in-house teaching to getting out into the wilderness and taking part in adventure courses, high ropes trails and personal challenges – which will certainly inspire and be memorable for staff members.
All of these activities are fashioned to encourage staff – regardless of age or background – to work as part of a team for the common aim of your company, and they all add to the common long-term goals of your organisation.
So team development events are essential to the growth of any business. Just don’t copy David Brent, a man whose hiring policy was simple: “Avoid employing unlucky people – throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them”.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
“The Chinese weren’t allowing anybody on Mt Everest. They ended up commandeering it for themselves, even though the Mount Everest is shared by two countries. However, he was all too aware of the potential dangers Chomolungma could bring. Certain parts of the climb are more dangerous than others and it is important for climbers to remain focused Hall was frostbitten and severely disoriented due to altitude sickness. Min Bahadur Sherchan returned a hero to Calgarians. The 75-year-old man from Nepal is now the oldest person to have reached the top of Everest. Now that Bahadur Sherchan has successfully scaled the tallest mountain in the world, he is once again ready to focus on his family. Min Bahadur Sherchan and four climbing guides reached the 29,035-foot (8,850-meters) summit of the world’s highest mountain early Sunday, said Ramesh Chretri, an official with Nepal’s ministry of tourism.
“Mount Everest this year became a political pawn,” he said with some frustration.
Sherchan just 6 days away from his 77th birthday beat the age record set last year by 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa.
With the Chinese preparing for the impending summer Olympic Games, Andrew Brash noted that the government’s actions hardly reflected the Olympic spirit. They flexed their muscles this year all the in name of the Olympic spirit, but it was hardly spirited at all.”
More than 3232 people have climbed to the summit since it was first conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary, who died in January, and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay.
Bahadur Sherchan returned this week from Nepal after successfully climbing to the summit of Chomolungma or Mount Everest. This season Anthony Loeff the French climber is reporting the scales for Mt Everest after reaching the top of Mont Blanc earlier this year.
Climber from Nepal, 76, oldest climber to conquer the top of Chomolungma or Mount Everest. His first found him within 180 metres of the peak when his team stopped to help a fellow mountaineer who was left for dead. One year later, Andrew Brash, a University of Calgary alumni, returned to Chomolungma to finish what he had started.
They basically coerced the Nepali government to not allow any climbers past camp two on the Nepali side. Indeed, the decision to actualize a long-time personal goal left Min Bahadur Sherchan with some internal uncertainties, he cited the political actions of China and Nepal as providing the greatest adversity he faced on his journey. Andrew Brash last attempt resulted in the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber who was left by his team in the “death zone.”
As he planned for the climb, Sherchan told reporters he wanted to inspire fellow senior citizens. He also said many Nepalese have established records on the Mount Everest, so it was only fitting that the record for the oldest climber to reach the summit should also belong to a Nepali. The Chinese were flying their airplanes over Mount Everest and had Chinese officials in Kathmandu.
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