"There's No I in Team" and Other Ways to Build Teamwork

When I think of team-building exercises, I have a flashback to middle school, when we had to play that trust game and fall backwards into the arms of our classmates. What I wouldn't have done to have been "out sick" that day of school. How horribly awkward.

But team-building exercises don't have to bring on the moans and groans from your employees. They can actually be fun, as evidenced in this Wall Street Journal article that describes how three small businesses use team-building exercises to help keep employees around.