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Pinboards between stuffed martens and mammoth bones, and a molar as a parting gift that only one person had ever held before.
Some workshop locations are really something special. A company from the Bergstraße region brought me in for a team building day and picked a seriously cool location: the Naturschutzzentrum Bergstraße, a small regional natural history museum.
The funny thing was: it fitted this team perfectly. Down to earth, not full of themselves, close to nature and, above all, driven by the wish to build something that lasts.
It's not about the quick win, it's about the marathon to a good product.
So between display cases, stuffed martens and mammoth bones, we put up our pinboards with moderation cards, and people discussed, developed and worked hard. When a workshop like this ends, something different stays in the room than after many others I've run. The participants are aware that their work makes a difference.
After everyone had left, I stayed and talked to the couple who run this mini museum. They shared wonderful insights into the exhibits, which they find almost daily in the museum garden.
I got a small private tour through the museum room, and as I was leaving, the man pressed something into my hand, a little grumpily:
"Here, this is the molar of a mammoth.
I just found it behind our garden. It's several tens of thousands of years old. And you're the second person ever to hold it in their hand."
Grinning, he added: "The first one is always me."
The tooth has a place of honor at my home now.
