Team Building has long been challenged for its return on investment, with many asking themselves is it actually a good use of company time and money.
As experts, we will now explore and justify exactly why Team Building is worth doing, and dispel the myths that suggest it’s a waste of company time and money.
Team cohesion is the backbone of company success. Collaboration among team members enhances creativity, problem-solving, and innovation whilst building stronger relationships. Unquestionably, a well-functioning team can achieve more than individuals working in isolation.
What are the Benefits of Strong Relationships in a Team?
Stronger relationships within a team increases productivity, higher employee morale, and improved job satisfaction; a positive team environment contributes to employee retention and attracts top talent, which can inadvertently save corporations enormous amounts of money in recruitment fee’s and lost output by having a job role sat empty.
Why Trust is central to a successful Team?
Trust is the foundation of any successful team. Trust helps team members develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for one another. An established team that has a strong foundation of trust, is proven to reduce conflict and promote a positive team culture. Furthemore, teams who have established trust amongst them are proven to stay together – with the likelihood of a team member leaving the circle far reduced.
Why Team Building is central to problem solving?
Team building activities provide an excellent platform to practice problem solving as a team, in a safe environment to make mistakes without the commercial consequences. Furthermore, these challenges improve critical thinking skills, promote collaboration, and build a team that are confident in overcoming obstacles together. *Check out our Escape Room inspired Escape the Box team building event which focuses on problem solving.
Why Team Building is key to developing business Leaders?
Leadership plays a crucial role in shaping a positive team culture. Nurturing future leaders in a team building environment is key to the development of a company workforce and shaping a positive team culture. Leaders can set the tone by modelling effective teamwork behaviors, demonstrating transparency, and fostering an environment where everyone’s contributions are valued. These candidates are an asset to any company.
How team building improves team communication?
Team Building sessions, and overcoming staged challenges as a team, helps develop communication techniques that foster open dialogue, active listening, and clear articulation of ideas within a team. These enhanced interaction skills are fully transferable skill sets that get taken back to the workplace, and in turn improve the way in which teams share ideas, innovate and drive performance.
So, have you decided if Team Building is a total waste of time?
We have outlined just a few of the benefits that team building provides, and feel that team building is a justified investment into the development of your workforce. For the doubters amongst us, the benefits of team activities are shown to provide a genuine return-on-investment. The negative consequences of hosting a team building session with your corporate team is absolutely negligible, with the benefits far outweighing the negatives.
Purposeful team building cements stronger relationships, builds trust within your team, develops the skills so that you can confidently overcome challenges together, develops future leaders and improves communication in a healthier team environment, to name but a few. Seems a no brainer – far from the claims of it being a waste of time and money.
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