Why organize a team building?

According to The study „THE IMPACT OF TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES ON TEAM EFFECTIVENESS” Organizing a team building is an effective way to foster teamwork and team performance. The effects are evident when teams experience active, hands-on learning and constantly invest in the way they work together.

Effective teams are vital for any business, but especially in fields such as medicine, aviation or the military. An example mentioned in the above study showed that around 70% of errors in the medical environment are not due to technical mistakes of individuals, but rather as a result of existing deficits within teams. Thus, there is a critical need to improve teams, having a major impact on those around them.

New vs. stable teams

The effects of teamwork in team building have been found to have significantly greater effects on newly formed teams compared to teams that are already cohesive. Conversely, team performance is strongly improved in already formed, stable teams.

Therefore, this type of activity not only improves knowledge between team members, but actually improves the performance of team work processes.

What type of teambuilding works for my team?

The answer to this question is never a standard one, as every team has different needs and desires, but the answer can easily be discovered in a discussion with a team building consultant. He will always know how to offer you the best solution because he can analyze all aspects of organizing a team building, from the number of participants to your budget.

However, we can give you food for thought until your next meeting with him. Think about what the goal is, both short term and long term - what is the course of your team?</span>

Take the example above, where there is a newly formed team and a solid one that has been stable for years. In such a situation, it may be necessary to bring the two teams together, to get to know each other better, so that when working together there is little or no chance of failure.

So organizing a team building for them would look like this: an accommodation activity - Go team, one of knowledge - Mini Olympics and one of closeness and success - Big picture. And in the evening, a party at which the barriers between them will break down.

Team building vs. teamwork

There may be slight confusion between the two terms, but they are two totally different concepts. Team building focuses on the formation of a group, while teamwork focuses on the function of a group, but both are essential to the success equation. And by understanding the essence of both, you can increase the success of a team and therefore your business.

The basics of team building

You can look at them from two perspectives. The first is about building a team by recruiting, or strategically selecting members from within the company or from outside, but we don't refer to this when we talk about the actual team building activity. The second refers to engaging in customized activities to improve personal and professional relationships within a team through team building. These have the role of cohesion, productivity and efficiency.

The basics of teamwork

Effective teamwork is based on factors such as good communication, mutual respect, complementary skills, good leadership and well-defined procedures. All these bring success to a team.

Why is it important to organize a team building for your team?

1. Improve communication - Activities involving discussion enable open communication between employees and management. And by default they lead to improved relationships and create a quality framework for the work itself.
2. Motivate your team - As work teams become more open in expressing their opinions, the more confident they become in their own abilities. Thus they become more motivated to take on new challenges.
3. Promotes creativity - By exposing teams to new experiences, you give them the opportunity to break out of the office routine. By working with other teams, they can offer creative solutions to each other, so that office work can gain new perspectives.
4. Develop skills - from the strategic, rational to creativity and offering solutions. .
5. Break down barriers - here we refer to trust in other team members. For example, in large companies there is a barrier between the governing body and the implementation teams. Team building activities provide the opportunity for the management to take the role of team colleague. Which is encouraging.

In conclusion

Bring that fantastic team building energy to the office! Whether we're talking about activities that have a physical outcome, or one of attitude and energy.

For example, Big Picture - is an activity in which teams paint a huge work that can be put on one of the walls of the building. Thus, seeing it for 5/7 days they can enthusiastically remember how much fun they had in „that” teambuilding.

Effectiveness

This is the recommended thought to keep in mind when you decide to organize a team building for your team. It should have a development objective behind it, without forcing members to participate. This objective is best linked to one of the business objectives.

The effectiveness of such an event really lies in making it part of a staff development strategy and a follow-up workshop.