Team building is an effective way to bring co-workers together and spark
the office’s morale. When the team is able to get together and experience a
challenge or activity as a collective unit, their bond becomes more cohesive
and their spirits higher. It can be a great deal of fun and it gives employees
a good time to get to know one another. The life in the day-to-day office can
become monotonous and create a stale environment where work lacks productivity
and ideas fail to lunch. Team building can help that.
Explained below are five reasons why team building is important in the
workplace.
#1. Fosters
better communications
Conducting team
building activities is the first step towards
fostering better communication between employees. While at work, everyone is
busy working and meeting their targets, therefore getting minimal time for
interacting. Team building activities like conducting some games or a going out
for a team lunch can help bond team members somewhat better with each other. In
turn relationships become stronger.
#2.
Increased motivation
When
employees become more comfortable with each other, it is always an advantage
for them, because they are more likely to gain confidence and such a move can
always be more positive and productive.
#3. A
message of value
As most team
building activities are fun and mostly held away from work, and not specific to
work, it shows that as an employer you value your team and of course appreciate
them.
#4. Add fun
to workplace
When work
becomes fun, it is much better and easier for employees also to perform better.
When they feel more cared for, becomes more engaged and of course give in their
100% percent. And when an employee gives in his or her 100%, it of course
implies good business.
#5.
Competition and bragging rights
Conducting
simple yet competitive games has been known to known to increase competition
which in turn has a positive impact on employee performance and motivation.
Once an employee feels more motivated, he or she feels giving more to his or
her workplace. So, by channeling
that increased production into a fun, inclusive team building activity, employees can bond in a way impossible by
other means.
#6.
Increased trust in each other
Team
building games act as an icebreaker among
employees and enhances them to trust each other. We all remember the
old trust exercise where a friend falls and we’re supposed to catch them. Team
building activities should bolster this kind of mentality and allow co-workers
to break through their distrusts. Members in a team will start viewing office
colleagues more as a collective unit.
In the end, it can be said that team building activities not only act as
strong ice breakers, but they also help in improving office morale to a great
extent. So, every employer must take it upon themselves to conduct some or the
other form of team building activities to ensure happy bonding between
employees.
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