Morale Improvement
Where I work, our group got together yesterday for a friendly game of softball as a morale and team building event. Our group challenged the special programs engineering group. Not to say that we didn't play that well, but our group consisted of 4 guys who have never played softball before. You may ask yourself, how can 4 grown men never have played softball before? The answer is simple, our group was going to be short handed so we invited the foreign inspecting agencies to play with us (one was British, two were from Holland and the last was from China).
It gave us an opportunity to talk to each other outside of a work environment. Needless to say, we lost, but we had a good time together. The bad news is we lost 17 - 3, the good news is that no one got hurt and we had fun. Our group is already trying to set a date of when we can get a rematch with these guys... this time it's going to be soccer.
The thing I like about our group is that we have a great boss. He's been around the block a few times and isn't the kind of boss who is regimented and does things the same way he did it back 30 years ago. He lets us do in just about anything we want to do as long as it is a good idea (and back us). A few years back we actually made a series of short films (infomercials) explaining how we certify our vehicles to foreign market regulations. He is so open minded that he even got dressed up in a super hero outfit and was a lead actor in these movies. Now, how many of your bosses would dress up as a super hero, get filmed doing silly things, and let others (even his superiors) watch the films when completed? I still laugh when I see these infomercials.
It gave us an opportunity to talk to each other outside of a work environment. Needless to say, we lost, but we had a good time together. The bad news is we lost 17 - 3, the good news is that no one got hurt and we had fun. Our group is already trying to set a date of when we can get a rematch with these guys... this time it's going to be soccer.
The thing I like about our group is that we have a great boss. He's been around the block a few times and isn't the kind of boss who is regimented and does things the same way he did it back 30 years ago. He lets us do in just about anything we want to do as long as it is a good idea (and back us). A few years back we actually made a series of short films (infomercials) explaining how we certify our vehicles to foreign market regulations. He is so open minded that he even got dressed up in a super hero outfit and was a lead actor in these movies. Now, how many of your bosses would dress up as a super hero, get filmed doing silly things, and let others (even his superiors) watch the films when completed? I still laugh when I see these infomercials.
posted by Fe Man at 7:34 PM
1 Comments:
Well you had a world team. . . think of what you accomplished for world relations. . . those guys probably will pay a bit more attention to the how the Americans do the baseball thing. . . and it is all about teamwork. . . so you did win.
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