[busyant]

I don't have any shocking story, but I also was once made to participate in a day long group bonding exercise.

one activity was for each member of our department to grade the overall "personality" of our department using several personality dimensions (e. g., kindness, competitiveness, etc.)

what I think i learned was that each of us projected our dominant personality traits onto the whole group.

eg, the hyper competitive climber said our department was cutthroat.

the guy who avoided conflict said it was a happy department with few disagreements.

etc.

beyond that insight, I didn't learn much.