Work/Life Balance

A long planned out of the office team meeting, in a local hotel, to look at progress on our Local Transport Plan (LTP), plus a look on how we as a team interact with the rest of the organisation.
We seem to be up to speed with most of the objectives (mine too, amazingly, all achieved).
Then, because most of the others have been on management courses recently eg much covert hints about teamwork colours, the meeting descended into some exercises stolen straight from the text books. Chief self criticisms seemed to be that we worked in "silos" both within the organisation, and even within our own office (there is a partition which seperates me and the boss from the other 4 + 3 team members (the 3 are temporary or providing non-strategic functions: see how I am slipping into management speak?). I am now in charge, apparently, of arranging for the partition to be removed, about £6K of work), including a personal project on repostioning my desk to ensure my PC screen won't be overlooked, obviously.
Another criticism was "arrogance", in that we get all keen (well some do) and then fail to explain to others why something is such a good idea.
We brainstormed projects (and even I have passed my Prince2 Project Management qualification), and stuff about controlled, influenced and uncontrolled zones, and the importance of the influenced zone. I stupidly promised to take on extra work at this point: organisations in the area that have Council-imposed Travel Plans beware: I will be on your case. (Actually, cherry picking some things my colleagues don't currently have time to do may have some benefits, in the areas of job satisfaction and justification for being here, along with the potential for enforcing legal agreements.
Final exercise (and it is now approaching 5pm ON A FRIDAY: I was fidgetting) was 10 things we could do better/would improve our functioning. My suggestions, and I was tragically ignored, were "selecting and singing a Team Song", "early morning calisthenics", and "Finishing A Sentence Before Starting A New One" (I recently listened to the Boss talking on the phone for a full five minutes before he used a visible full stop).
The final point of the 10, and of this I am particularly proud, was "Use Andy as a role model" ie the others are to stop giving the organisation dozens or hundreds of free flexi hours, and try to go home at a reasonable time and stop working weekends, like what I do. Sounds good to me.
Ooh and I gave an interview to Radio Devon today about Shopmobility. They say they'll use it Saturday.