I recently had a webinar about my new book Help Desk Manager’s Crash course, and many of the participants wanted to know more about teambuilding. I thought it’d be nice to share my primer here, and then dive a little deeper into activities that work, and finally into how to teambuild with peers and up the organization.

Go first – As manager, you have to go first, show that you’re vulnerable, that you’re human, and that your team can trust you. If you aren’t willing to go first, why would anyone else want to contribute?
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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