I received this email from Geoteaming which feature an article entitled “The Dark Side of Team Building”. Read on.

The Dark Side of Team Building. “Layoffs, 300+ point drop in the Dow, Home foreclosure, $700B bailout, factory owners abandon their businesses, 200% increase in fuel costs…”  Let’s make no mistake, while I am an eternal optimist, times are changing, the world is changing, and we are not immune.  While we are having a record breaking year, in the last 4 weeks, we’ve had 6+ events reschedule or just flat out cancel.  Let me reassure you personally that we are in one of our strongest financial positions because we have been preparing for this for the past 2 years and we too are looking at how to lead through challenging times. I’ve had a book that has been brewing in me for the past 10 years.  This book is called “The Light and Dark Side of Team Building”.   On one side would have the Light Side of Team Building.  These are all the concept that you know and love and that we’ve been preaching since the beginning, such as inclusion, diversity, consensus, facilitation, out of the box thinking, etc.

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Now That We’re Not a Start-Up, How Do I Promote Teamwork? When Seph Barnard decided to energize his sales staff last year, he created a familiar enough incentive: adding a commission to be calculated on top of the sales staff’s salaries. But the step nearly destroyed esprit de corps at Barnard’s company, Tape Resources Inc. (#426), which sells blank videotapes and audiotapes to businesses such as television stations and production companies. “Cracks started to appear in morale,” recalls Barnard. “There was resentment over it. Tensions appeared in the office that we’d never had before.”

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