The Moose Joke - Scott Simmerman's Best Session Closing Story

THE MOOSE
JOKE
The Most Favorite
Team Building
Session Closing
Story / Joke of

Dr. Scott
Simmerman

© Performance Management Company, 1993 - - 2014

To best end a team building,
performance improvement or
leadership development
presentation / workshop, you
want a memorable and rocksolid ending or closing.
This is one I have used since
1995.
Bombproof!


First, you need a session
summary of key outcomes or
learning points to set the stage
for your final comments.
The next slide shows a sample,
focused on employee
involvement and engagement:

Key Learning Points:

• It’s about making Progress Forward and
about active involvement in things
• Focus on Continuous Continuous
Improvement
• Not Every Step is a Success. Keep trying
•

Celebrate Any and All Progress

•

Round Wheels are already in Wagon

• Engage and Enlist the Energy of All

Then you pose a puzzling
statement, one that seemingly
makes no sense, to generate
that “Huh?” reaction from
everyone.


So, would you
NOW agree that
this is a lot like
Hunting
Moose?

And you fake them out,
pretending that their puzzled
reaction is because you think
they do not know what a
moose is, and not that you
think your question is
unrelated to the program you
just did… So, tell them what a
moose is and see if they now

Moose…
A large horselike animal
with antlers
that lives in
colder
climates.

So, now you tell them the story
about the 3 hunters who return
to Alaska to hunt moose again,
going back to the same lake as
last year. They have a pilot fly
them in using a float plane –
one that can land on water –
and say that he will return in
three days.

And you explain that he does
return as promised and that
the men proceed to load up
one of the moose and tie it to
the pontoons.
At this point, the pilot says,
“Let’s go!” but the men say
that they need to load up the
other two moose…


You can embellish your storyline as much as you like...

The men and the pilot argue, with
the men saying that they took off
from the same lake, with the same
temperature, with the same kind
of plane and the same gear last
year. The only difference is:
PILOT.
Finally the pilot gives in and says
to load up the other two moose.

So, the men load up the other two
moose and tie them down and get
in the plane with all their gear and
the pilot taxis the plane down to
the very far end of the lake, revs
the motor and the plane takes off.
It goes across the lake faster and
faster and faster and gets into the
air…

(Personalize the joke to that audience with the names of their lead

But, the pontoons hit the top of
the trees, the men go flying, the
gear goes flying and the moose
go flying. After a couple of
minutes, one of the men comes to
and yells, “Joe!” and you,
pretending to be that person
answer after a moment, “Bill!”
“Joe!” “Bill!!”

“Joe! Where are we?”…
“Bill!” (pause and look around)…
“Looks like about 50 feet farther
than last year!”
The key is to let the punch line
settle in a bit and then make the
key learning points that the men
viewed the effort as a greater
success,


I will generally come back and
show the bullet slide of the
desired session outcomes again
and make a few comments about
progress being incremental, that
the reality of doing something and
flying off into the air is not of high
probability. The team effort itself
needs to be viewed as a success
so that the attempt to succeed is

The other thing we need to do is
to better involve and engage the
efforts of a lot more of the people
in the organization, the “50 feet”
and get them better focused on
goals and aligned, more
motivated to work together, and to
keep trying to make
improvements.

Link people to performance!


The Journey Forward

The goal is to go:

Fifty Feet
Farther Than
Last Year!

If it is to be
it is up to
me!

If not you,
who?
If not now,
when?

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Have FUN
Out There!
Thanks for your time,
energy and thinking.
Scott Simmerman
The Round Wheels Guy
Scott@SquareWheels.com

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