Thursday, December 26, 2013

An Introduction To Corporate Team Building Activities

By Eugenia Dickerson


When thinking about corporate team building activities it is important to remember their purpose. As the name suggests it is about taking people and bringing them together, increasing their efficiency in the long term. Any activity you choose to ought to be the right balance between fun, learning more about each other and helping people work together.

A good example of this is with a sales team. Often companies not only have individual targets but also group targets. Therefore one person selling a lot may be great but they can be even more effective if they share their expertise with the other members of the group, encouraging them and increasing their self confidence in order to improve their sales techniques.

However if there is room in the budget to go to another venue this is worth considering. Getting away from the office and staying somewhere else means the people are brought together. If the venue is away from a city centre then the focus is more on the team and people are practically forced to talk with each other and learn more about each other, especially if the venue is an exclusive one without other guests. Remember when organising it to check their availability. The point is to get everyone together as much as possible!

For this member confidence is not an issue. However the right activity can illustrate why cooperation and working together is important. This then means that this confident salesperson can also learn to use their skills in a more positive way and work to benefit the whole group.

While it can be hard to please everyone this is the best way to get something that most people will want to do. As the idea is to choose something people can do as a group try to avoid anything that will exclude people as much as possible. For example older employees are unlikely to thank you if you expect them to run around at a boot camp!

If possible you should try to have different events throughout the year. Sometimes having one regularly scheduled event can become predictable. This can then mean that your team can bond. However it will often be to complain about the predictable event you have planned for them!

One way of achieving this is by booking an exclusive venue. Some venues allow you to book so that there are no other guests. This then means that everyone in your group not only does the activities together but also eats together and socialises after events together. Scheduling a number of these throughout the year will mean more people do events together and therefore will become more familiar with each other.

Remember when organising corporate team building activities that there needs to be a balance between competitiveness and the bonding process. You want people to have fun but it should be taken seriously enough that they learn more about what they are doing. Look online for more information as well as finding companies that can organise appropriate events for you and your team.




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