Humpday Dumpday:

Recently I was working with a client on some team building with his young management team (roughly 10 people; only one woman). 

My client explained to me that each of his managers’ was dedicated, hard working, and overachieving; but not all of his employees were necessarily similarly motivated.  As a result his organization achieved great things but had “blow ups” that took a great deal of time and effort to put things “back together again” (his exact words).

I said, “you mean like Humpty Dumpty?”  You know the nursery rhyme:  “Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

His response: “exactly!  If we could just avoid the fall…”  He went on to say, “what we do is not life and death.  If they could just slow down and think; get some guidance... things can wait to get some advice or direction.”

Solution:  we did some team building exercises utilizing Robert Fulghum’s bestseller “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” to embrace the simplicity of the issues (and added the necessity to be nice) in all phases of our work-a-day world.  And, we established a group support program of Wednesday (Humpday) morning breakfast meetings where we could purge our souls (Dumpday) and get advice.  Each team member had a partner to call in crisis and one 15-minute “Time Out” (kindergarten style) per week where they could call me if they needed to “get away” from the stimulation at work or couldn’t wait until Humpday Dumpday on Wednesday.

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