LAUGHTER AS A TEAM BUILDER

LAUGHTER AS A TEAM BUILDER

Paul S. George, in his article, Team Building (Drake Business Review, Vol. 3, No. 1) indicates that fun is essential to both individual and group strength and health. He believes that having fun together builds bridges and bonds between people; and that laughter is a team builder that builds understanding and empathy. He advocates simple techniques, such as daily calendars with humorous stories, pictures, cartoons, or words on walls and bulletin boards, luncheons, roasts and humorous ceremonies or rituals.

KEEP MEETINGS ON TRACK

Fred Pryor, writing in his column, The Workline, provides the following advice for keeping people on track in a meeting; "Before the meeting, write the agenda on a flipchart and put it in a prominent place. When someone starts to go off track, say, 'Good point. We'll certainly want to discuss that when we come to item 7' - or add a new agenda item, if the need be. After you have made this note, get people back on track by restating the subject under discussion."

PRIORITIZE THE AGENDA

Mark the meeting agenda topics on individual index cards and shuffle them around in order of importance.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

-A lot of opportunities disguise themselves as work.

TIMELY QUOTES

"God so loved the world He didn't send a committee."
- Anonymous

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
- Chinese Proverb