Article: TEAM BUILDING : Achieving The Impossible ; If you want to see your team break out of a rut and achieve greater cohesion, send them on a team-building exercise. Carlene du Toit talks to some who have been there and done that.

If only we can come to discover this, we may never again settle for anything less." This is the firm conviction of Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound International, an organisation that aims to help people achieve their full potential together. Hahn is not alone in believing that most of us fall far short of our true potential as individuals and as teams. In fact, this fundamental belief is the very essence of the spirit in which virtually all personal development and team-building programmes are conducted.

The corporate and medium-size business environment, say team- building experts, is not the place for lone rangers or for those who are too competitive. Kevin McMahon, managing director ...

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