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8 benefits of having a team building!

Team Building 

We all love a bit of teambuilding! When morale is low, people are a bit fed up, or perhaps the team is just tired, the leadership team might suggest a teambuilding day to inject energy and enthusiasm back into the team.

But just running around and playing games, whilst good exercise, may not change anything.

Teambuilding is a collective term for various types of activities used to improve relationships, break down barriers, give shared experience, encourage mutual understanding of different personalities and define roles within teams. Many teambuilding exercises aim to expose and address interpersonal problems within the group or help find solutions to team problems.

Before investing valuable time and money, it’s important to understand the real benefits, so you know what it is that your team needs.

Team work

Team building events create the time to focus on the importance of team work and what is needed to make you a better team. If you can work together better, understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses, know what annoys and what motivates your colleagues and appreciate what brings out the best in others, the team is simply going to do a better job!

Communication

We communicate with each other every day, whether replying to an email, a speedy whatsapp message, a formal report presented to management, or even our facial expression as we pass in the corridor. Good communication is vital for a high performing team and team-building can help break down these barriers, helping us share information freely and clearly and avoid misinterpretation or confusion.

Leadership

Some teambuilding activities require us to have a leader. They may be appointed or elected after we identify leadership qualities in individuals. Giving your team the opportunity to be the leader in a fun, safe, yet challenging role, helps them practice the skills they will need and understand how to bring out the best in others.

Confidence

One of the most important roles of team building is building a person’s confidence. By giving responsibility to individuals to lead activities, coach other team members and solve problems successfully, their confidence will grow. They start to see how their contribution and talents matter and, in time, will feel more confident in contributing ideas or suggestions to help grow the organisation.

Responsibility

Responsibility is understanding that each member’s contribution to the team is important, regardless of their role. We define roles and clarify expectations to ensure the whole team shines and team building can help to reinforce how taking responsibility is vital for team’s performance.

Trust

For a team to be effective, trust is essential because it provides a sense of safety.

When we trust each other, we are able to open up to each other and expose our strengths and vulnerabilities. Team building programmes help participants to learn more about each other. If a workplace is able to foster a strong sense of trust within their teams, productivity, morale and team work will improve.

Respect

Differences atwork can lead to conflict, arguments, tension and stress.  It is important for teams to understand that we need to be respectful, professional and pleasant when discussing these differences. Team building can help to nurture greater respect for each other through communication, sharing knowledge, encouraging and helping each other.

Morale and Fun

We all know the famous proverb ‘All work and no play make Jack a dull boy’.

Team building is about shared experience. Doing things together, outside of the office with no roles or responsibilities  can help to break down the barriers, improve morale and create a more positive atmosphere. Teams that enjoy what they do, generally do a better job!

 

At Lantern, we approach team building days with a difference! We call it Team Build Plus.

Whilst group activities and challenges play an important part in helping to bind and bond teams, if there is no obvious take-out from the day, the team is left with happy, fun memories but nothing has changed!

We work closely with you to understand some of the skill gaps in your organisation and then develop and design a highly motivational and exciting day for your teams, built around some core skills and changes in behaviour.

These themes include:

  • Communication
  • Efficiency and Working Smarter
  • Creative Thinking
  • Presentation Skills
  • Understanding ourselves and others
  • Problem Solving

Call us today on 0702 369224 or email us on info@lanterntraining.com and we will help you bind those gaps!

 

 

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Building Team Build Capacity In-house:

Is your team building objectives ticked off just once a year? Perhaps it is a “fun session” during the end of year retreat or perhaps a “fun day out” for the whole company to thank them for all their hard work. Whilst that is all well and good, team building should be a continuous focus, ensuring that your team are working together as productively and efficiently as they can throughout the year. Have you thought of giving your managers the skills to be able to instill team spirit, little and often with very little expense,Team building training is important for any business management to understand and to get the best from their team situation and it can be achieve with as little as 10 minutes a day. Through team building training and activities, team leaders will know and recognise potential, gifts and gaps of each employee hence know what duties to assign to each one of them.

Team building can work on all levels for all business sizes. By bringing people together and putting them into a situation or relaxed fun where they might rely on each other for support gives them a new perspective on colleagues and the company. It helps to foster better and open communication between the employees themselves, as well as between the employees and the higher management. It goes a long way in improving professional relations, understanding and co-operation, and this is very much reflected in the quality of work being done. Team building in the workplace significantly contributes towards employee motivation and building trust among the employees, thereby ensuring better productivity.

Remember, team leadership and team building go hand in hand. Successful team building in the workplace often translates into success for everyone. As the popular saying goes, “Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Call Lantern Training on 0702 369224 to learn more about up-skilling your management team to build their own teams.

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