Team Building
Team building is one of the latest craze in the business world. Over the past years, business leaders have chosen to hire people who have the ability to work as a team. Why so? Research shows that people who work in teams can accomplish more than a group of individuals working together. But not all team building activities are created equal. Industry experts have levelled criticism at the quick fix attitude that companies have adopted, in which they attempt to make their own team building activities.
For a team building event to be effective, it must:
Have work goals integrated.
It's not enough to plan a fun day of activities for your team. The team building event that you plan should help focus the members of the team on what's not working and what needs to happen for the team to work together.
Be one of an overall company goal.
You should plan team building activities and events as part of the company's plan for success. There is more to the event than just buggy riding. Team building events should be an ongoing, annual or semi-annual event.
Be planned by a team.
After all, the goal is to promote teamwork. The planning team should also have the behaviour that it wishes to promote.
Be followed up with some real work integration.
Having a team building activity and failing to follow it up would just be useless. To be meaningful, team building efforts must continue beyond the event day.
Be supported by rewarding teamwork.
Once you have a team that's working as a team, you need to reinforce that behaviour by rewarding it. Since teams work really well when they are recognized, you should have notices in the company newsletter, mark team accomplishments during corporate events, and the like.
If you are thinking that it's hard work to do all these, keep in mind that other companies do it too. You always have the choice of hiring a corporate events planner to help you get things going. But don't hire just anyone. Get a professional since he knows better.
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