Team Building

Team building is a short term boost to employee enthusiasm and positive morale. A platform where all the employees are united and work towards a common goal like building relationships, social interactions within employees and organisational growth.

Properly planned team building activity helps the employees to develop into an organised team. It gives an opportunity to share their expectations on the accomplishments they want to achieve through the trust and support they receive from each other. Because of these team building activities employees are rejuvenated and with a new feeling they step forward to accomplish the targets set before them with much enthusiasm.

These activities have become a regular in the corporate world as they contribute to the overall success of the organisation.

It is well understood that successful team building creates effective and focused workforce.  What about the unsuccessful team building activities, a thorough evaluation within the management has to be made as to why they are unsuccessful. Management has to take an initiative to evaluate these areas for improvement:

MANAGEMENT EXPECTATIONS 

Clear communication on the strategic plans has to be made to the leaders. Is the information disseminated to the employees clearly or not? Purpose of these plans and the expectations from the employees has to be communicated clearly to achieve the desired results.

UNDERSTANDING

It is very important that the employees should understand that team building activities are important for an organisation and its employees to achieve its common goal that is the employee satisfaction and increase in productivity in turn the organisational growth.

EMPLOYEES COMMITMENT

Why should employees be committed towards accomplishing their team goal and what is the benefit they will receive from being committed.

 TEAM BUILDING RISKS 

Employee complaints on time and energy investment and loosing productive hours in these team building should be addressed on priority.

Enthusiastic activities should be organised in order to have excited participation from the employees.

Feed back and follow up on the team building activities to improvise on the existing activities holds the interest of the employees and encourages them to participate often with enthusiasm.