{"id":221758,"date":"2025-12-08T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221758\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T11:50:12","slug":"dear-vicki-my-boss-is-planning-a-team-building-exercise-do-days-of-artificial-fun-really-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221758\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Vicki: \u2018My boss is planning a team-building exercise. Do days of artificial fun really work?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"No team-building exercise can compensate for poor leadership or a disconnected culture. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/05286250-2b9d-4a6b-8bae-193b2acdb5a2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">No team-building exercise can compensate for poor leadership or a disconnected culture. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q I\u2019m a manager in a company in the midlands whose owner is planning a team-building exercise. He says the justification is that many of the staff are hybrid workers and rarely see each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This means there\u2019s no longer a proper exchange of ideas and the business is suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No team-building exercise can compensate for poor leadership or a disconnected culture. Photo: Getty Q I\u2019m a manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,23,6796],"class_list":{"0":"post-221758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115683801753572792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}