08 Apr DOES TEAM BUILDING WORK?
What exactly is team building?
It should be borne in mind that the atmosphere in the team is one of the main reasons for staying or leaving the company.
Team Building is any effort to make your team more effective, with team productivity as the main focus. Activities organized for this purpose almost always require several employees to participate in them and, as a rule, they jointly solve a certain problem. The goal of each activity is to connect employees, get to know each other better and function better on future business projects.
Team Building represents an investment in a better atmosphere in the team, which later spills over into business projects on which employees are engaged together.
Company goals
Many companies have accurate team building goals. The most common goals of team building organization are:
- Building trust
- Improving communication
- Getting to know the skills of employees
- Encouraging creativity and innovation
- Improving cooperation among employees
- Raising employee motivation
For each of these goals, activities aimed at achieving them are organized. When we talk about creativity, one of the activities that can encourage it is "Silence, Recording in Progress" where employees need to create their own film. Through the script, acting and recording, they encourage creativity. When we talk about building trust in colleagues, the activity that leads to more trust in others is the game "Minute to Victory ". In this activity, it is necessary to make a strategy before the games themselves and choose a person in whom we have confidence that he will play the game the best.
benefits of team building organization
Team building activities can strengthen the company's culture and provide a wide range of benefits. We have already written that team building creates a stronger bond between employees, improves team communication and encourages cooperation.
But what about some other, lesser-known benefits that aren't talked about so much? Here are some hidden benefits that will add value to your company's culture when you invest in team building activities.
- Encouraging creativity
- Taking a team out of their regular work environment to overcome non-work challenges can encourage creative problem solving when they return to the office
- A new approach to challenges
- Even the best managers can be intimidating to employees, and this feeling can lead employees to hesitate to turn around and discuss problems at work, new ideas and career aspirations.
- Identify leaders
- Team building is a good way for management to look at leadership skills outside the office environment and to identify potential future candidates for leaders
- Discover hidden talents
- There are often hidden talents that are revealed while chatting at these out-of-office building events that can be valuable to the company and even advance your career.
- They are all winners
- Team building is a fantastic way to recognize achievements outside of work parameters and can boost self-esteem for employees who may be struggling in the office
- Increase energy
- It is best if the team can have a memory of the event, such as a T-shirt that can be worn casual on Fridays
HOW DO WE MEASURE WHETHER TEAM BUILDING IS SUCCESSFUL?
- We are constantly wondering if organizing a team building is worth it and how we can know it is worth it. To establish this, we must prepare in the right way and analyze the behavior of employees before and after the organization of the team gathering in order to compare the results. Below are a few tactics for analyzing the success of team building.
Identify the baseline with which to compare the results
- Take some time before each building team to analyze how employees behave, how they communicate, whether they understand each other in meetings, whether they have the freedom to express their opinions, etc. and write down all those items. After the team building, do the same again and compare whether the condition has improved and in what way.
Ask employees for their opinion
- Make an anonymous survey after team building and ask your employees what they think about the activities they had, if something could have been better, if they are satisfied with the communication with other colleagues, etc.
Analyze customer relationships
- Also talk to your clients about the satisfaction of working with your employees to see if there is any progress in this area.
Long-term goals
- Investing in a team atmosphere is a long-term process and you need to have a strategy that will accompany all aspects of that process. The most desirable results of team building are the positive ones that remain in the company's culture in the long run.
There are other ways to analyze the success of team building and they in most cases depend on the company.
The conclusion of this blog is that team building activities in 89% of cases are rated as a positive activity in a company. For this reason, you should not hesitate to organize informal activities that will gather employees in one place and give them the opportunity to show themselves in the long light.
You can see all the team building activities offered by OLIDOOL on our website olidool.com/en/team-building/ where you have the opportunity to download a catalog of all activities. For any additional information write to us at contact@olidool.com
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