Ah, the public sector away day, there’s no better example of wanton wastage in the name of team building.
I’ve been on a few myself I’m sad to admit - the best one being the group ‘orchestra’ where 25 people attempted to bang drums of various sizes in time to instructions given by an out of work actor/conductor.
That must have cost a few grand and easily dwarfs the outlay in this story in The Times: Taxpayers fund ‘Doolittle’ awayday for quango staff.
Two HR execs apparently visited a farm and learned how to ‘determine the effectiveness of body language in an equine leadership session’.
Don’t laugh - how cool would it be for your next staff outing to be dressing up and playing Horse Whisperer just like Robert Redford.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 am
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