Offsite

“I’ve always felt that great teams don’t need day trips to wine country or mini vacations. Instead, the best team building exercise is to give folks good, worthwhile work. Honest work. What kills great teams isn’t the lack of team offsites but the lack of focus, direction, resources, support, and financial recompense. A trip to the arcade or the bowling alley is incapable of fixing any of these problems.”

Robin nails it here, I've gone to so many offsites and done so many team building exercises and the team that I worked with best and felt I did my best work was the one in which we were working well together and focused on the work rather than trying to build a team. Pretty much all of my offsite experiences pointed out how I didn't fit into the team merely because what I found interesting and fun to do when not working is not what they found interesting and fun.