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Team-building exercises can be a waste of time. You achieve more by getting personal

Written by Julien Pollack, Associate Professor, University of Sydney

The key to an effective team-builiding exercise is understanding a team is a social network built on connections between individuals.www.shutterstock.com

Someone we know recently told us about a team-building event that proved anything but.

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