Why team build?
Taking part in corporate team building events encourages individuals to work together as a unit and will inspire them to listen, communicate, and share.
Each of your employees brings something unique to your organization. Separately, although their individual skills and qualities achieve good results, pooling their talents and teaching them how to work together as a team encourages a sense of community, ultimately leading towards the benefits of a common goal: the advancement of the company.
Coupled with your company culture, the team building activity you choose should empower your team to work more effectively and productively. Team members will learn how to:
Listen
Careful listening requires conscious effort. If a person's life was dependent upon listening carefully to, and following the communicated instructions of a colleague, then paying close attention and listening to the communicator would become as natural as breathing.
Communicate
Working on the adage that anyone can be a teacher but not everyone can teach, a poor communicator creates misunderstanding, which leads to wrong decision-making - a sure-fire recipe for low morale and workplace conflict.
Share
Once everyone's got the hang of listening and communicating effectively, the spirit of team building is to foster enough trust in each other to share knowledge. Knowledge is power but sharing knowledge is empowering.
The Goal
Corporate team building enhances co-operation between individuals, building on their unique strengths and talents. Whatever your chosen activity, building corporate team members is the goal.
Alan Hunt is a team building specialist with a keen sense of what works and what doesn't. He's been active in the Team Building world for more years than he cares to mention. Seeing people succeed is what makes him tick. His company, Sandstone (www.sandstone.co.uk) is a leading provider of team building events, corporate retreats and away days.