Sean GlazeWorkplace Culture Speaker | Facilitator, Great Results Team Building · Leadership lessons from the locker room that change how your people work together.

DOES PAINTBALL REALLY IMPACT TEAM PERFORMANCE

27 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Sean Glaze. This content was uploaded by Sean Glaze. This is a YouTube video titled "DOES PAINTBALL REALLY IMPACT TEAM PERFORMANCE" (posted 2023-06-27). It contains a coach-style monologue about team-building, using paintball as the example: the speaker notes some NFL teams use paintball but argues it’s largely recreational and unlikely to change culture or develop deep awareness. The speaker recommends scheduled, intentional team-building activities and conversations to connect people to a goal and to one another, and offers a general observation about gendered tendencies (men often need to compete to connect, women often need to connect before they compete).

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So how effective is paintball as a team-building activity? Well, I recently saw a few NFL teams were actually finishing up their preseason by playing paintball together, and it's not really a bad investment depending upon what you want to accomplish. See, as a coach, I've found, with some exceptions, guys need to compete in order to connect, and ladies need to connect before they compete. Now, team-building is an ongoing process of intentional activities to connect people to a compelling goal and to each other in order to improve performance. Performance. Recreational stuff like paintball isn't bad, but it rarely changes your culture or develops significant awareness of others. To do that, you need more than paintball. Scheduling intentional team-building activities and conversations are what will truly inspire your people to build connections and take accountability. That's what effective leaders do.