The Sandstone Team Building Blog

Well, it’s my turn to write an entry and I have a problem.  Writer’s block.  Wikipedia’s entry for this describes the condition as one “in which an author loses the ability to produce new work”.  It goes on to say that in some instances it can be merely a temporary condition, though in extreme cases some writers were forced to abandon their careers from it.  Are my regular blogging sessions close to an end, I wonder?

I first thought about basing this entry on Wimbledon.  The epic final between Federer and Roddick certainly was worthy of consideration.  No top player gets there on his or her own.  He or she has a team behind them.  There was potential there.  But I just thought that the marathon fifth set was really about the gladiators themselves, slugging it out.  Their equal determination to finish on top; their equal refusal to quit.  Their respective teams might well have helped them get there, but the fifth set was theirs and theirs alone.  Just not enough material there for a team building blog entry.

I thought about writing something about the heatwave of last week and its effect on people and teams.  But I was worried that in doing so I might put a hex on the rest of the summer.

I also thought about writing something based on the (successful) escape attempt from Chester Zoo by the chimps.  Indeed it was the fact that I couldn’t even generate anything of value from such a wonderful story about a team of chimps working together in such a way that I realised I had writer’s block!

So, no blog entry of any substance this week, from me at least.  It’s a shame really.  I enjoy writing them.

Alan