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HOW CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY

No business can compete in its market niche unless its employees work together as a coherent unit in order to plan their projects and execute on their strategy, making corporate team building activities an excellent way to deliver better cohesion in the office. What separates our development programs from motivational speakers or other passive productivity boosters is that they put the employees at the front and center of the activity so that they control the outcome and are better able to work with others to achieve the desired results.

BUILD LOYALTY THROUGH TEAM BUILDING

In a world where employees only spend a few years at a company and then move on, it can be rare for an organization to show any type of pride or satisfaction with its workforce. A corporate team building program does just that by demonstrating how committed a business is to its worker satisfaction and output. Investing the resources into a team building activity shows that the company’s time and money is committed to employees rather than to the pursuit of further profit. This generates loyalty to your organization and the desire to further provide results for upcoming projects.

BENEFITS OF CORPORATE TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Employee Value

A great benefit of team building exercises is that they stress the importance and value of all employees in the organization, as well as the value in working together harmoniously. Too many offices in the corporate world suffer from politics, cliques, and undercurrents of negative emotions.

Relationship Development

Team building exercises allow employees to get to know one another personally, developing not only cooperation but even friendships between individuals who would not otherwise think to spend time outside of work together. An office that everyone wants to come into each morning is an office that has much better results than one in which nobody thinks of the others as more than co-workers.

DEVELOP PRODUCTIVE TEAMS THROUGH TEAM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

A ship out to sail at sea will not go far unless everyone on board knows which direction they are headed and how they are responsible for their own part of the journey. The same is true for an office. You can tell an employee to work on a project, but if they cannot see the end result, their work will suffer. Discovery of direction is a major asset that team building activities stress for the workplace. Getting the motivation to work towards a goal, whether it is simplistic or complex, keeps everyone working harder than if they are only performing for a paycheck at the end of each month.

 

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Doug Bolger is the world’s foremost instructional designer for participant-driven designs. He is changing how the world works, by changing how the world learns.