Pizza Isn’t Teambuilding
April 11, 2009 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
Pizza is just pizza.
Pizza isn’t teambuilding.
Jeffrey Brooks reminded me of this over the past week. Quoting Jeff: “I’ve never eaten a piece of pizza and thought ‘I feel closer to my family.’ Have you?”
Of course not.
Pizza is just PIZZA.
Sure, your team has to eat, so why not pizza.
Used in small doses, like when you really need them to skip lunch, pizza might make folks a little happier.
Just don’t confuse pizza (or any other food) with teambuilding.
Unless you’re making a pizza together that they can take home to their family.
Pizza isn’t teambuilding.
Extreme pizza & wings courtesy of the pizza review
It just depends how much pizza you actually buy. If your people happen to over eat some of that incredible little Italy brick oven pizza – they usually will want to stay at their desks an extra hour or two – perfect time for teambuilding in my opinion.
Just keep it after 5PM :)
Dion – Good point! After 5 PM, pizza can go a LONG way towards building a team…unless you’re staying late at work :)