Alexis intentionally skips internal social events to give employees breathing room
Michael Alexis · 30 Virtual Events Later, His Team Still Runs Without Him · Sep 6, 2022 · at 54:22
Michael Alexis, CEO of teambuilding.com, discusses executive presence and boundaries during internal employee team building and retreats.
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“I attend some of the team building events and then I intentionally don't attend others. An example of that would be, we have an upcoming company retreat in New York, we're flying everybody in a meeting there. And so there's some of the evening social activities where it's just let our team go to joy without the I don't even know if pressure is the right word, but without, without us being there so they could just do their thing.”
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