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Team Building – a quick guide
February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What is Team Building?
The key objectives of any team building activity are:
- Clarify the collective goals
- Identify the inhibitors that prevent the team from reaching their goals and remove them
- Put in place enablers that assist them
- Measure and monitor progress, to ensure the goals are achieved
To work effectively as a team you need agreement on exactly what sort of team you are: what are the goals, what is each member’s role, who needs to work closely with whom, what should the game plan be? Sometimes it’s as simple as learning more about the people you work with, and sometimes it’s complicated, such as working through entrenched difficulties or defining how a long-distance team communicates.
A tailor-made team building event allows you to do this by taking some time away from the workplace to slow things right down. Through discussion, brain storming, game play, role play and goal setting, you can sort out problems, put forward new ideas, plan the future, look at the team’s purpose, vision and mission and learn more about each other as people. Subsequent to a team building event team members will enjoy a fresh perspective, achieve a sense of focus, build confidence and prepare for the real “game” ahead. This is why many business attribute team building to be a very important part of management and training.
Research shows that a team building event has a positive effect on the motivation, confidence, morale, and effectiveness of the team and its individual members that immediately transfers to the workplace.
Each team building event is created from a specific brief and is tailor-made by working closely with your company to ensure the most appropriate programme.
Other more traditional techniques often address the inhibitors to collective performance: relationships and communication. However, if a group is only a group, then the benefits of such techniques may be limited. At best, there may be no need to resolve relationship problems.
Team building events are designed to help create and nurture successful, professional, productive and motivated teams.