What 'Team-Building' Exercises Can You Recommend To Get Management & Staff Working Together For A Non-Profit?

Question

Our organization seems to have a number of staff & management who have forgotten how to work efficiently as a whole. Can you recommend any useful 'team-building' exercises? (We have a staff of 17 people, most of which are currently doing little or nothing to keep this not-for-profit organization afloat, and our clients and supporters are suffering as a result. What have you found to be useful in achieving this in your workplace?

Answer 1

Team building starts with trust.

I have my employees do a weekly confessional. If one person's confessional is too wimpy, I admonish them in front of the group.

I let everyone know that I don't tolerate office politics, and specifically make it a point of letting them know that I consider the use of any of the information at our weekly confessionals in spite or in anger or in revenge against another co-worker, as grounds for dismissal.

I have the most productive, happy and tight-knit group of people you'll ever meet.