Game on!
Neil yelled, “Game on!” and half the ballroom immediately got up and left the room. We were at our annual sales meeting and a big team dinner just ended. Somehow, we had lucked out, because the meeting was at the Chateau Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. It was the middle of a winter, so you know what that looks like in the mountains.
Shortly after the first group left the room, the rest of us got bundled up and followed them. Game on literally meant game on.
A group of our colleagues had rented skates and hockey sticks and organized a hockey game under the moonlight on the frozen lake. The rest of us piled out to watch.
It was magical! And so stereotypically Canadian, I was sure I could hear the national anthem playing off in the distance. Hockey under the stars on a frozen lake in the Canadian Rockies.
Everybody was outside, either playing or watching. And the game wasn’t a scheduled “forced fun” corporate event. It was just a bunch of people who work together having fun.
Are these magical team building experiences gone? Do we believe we can build teams using… well, Teams, or Zoom for that matter? I could be wrong, but I’m in the camp that says that building a team “online” isn’t even possible. A magical Zoom experience is an oxymoron. Or are teams even important anymore? What do you think?
If you were there in Lake Louise or have a similar magical memory, please comment below.
Joe Pops
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