The Value of Team Building!
12 June 2014
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Generally, employees and companies have many preconceived notions about team building. Companies feel like they are wasting money letting their employees have fun, and employees think these events are superficial, high-intensity activities with little professional value for anyone involved.
However, team building can be a great tool for bringing teams together, motivating them, and raising awareness. Behind the fun, it allows for real work to be done by the participants and the company.
Why choose team building?
Team building is usually chosen when there is a lack of cohesion within teams, or when a group has difficulty working and communicating together.
When a company has undergone significant changes or recently welcomed new employees, team building can also be a good way to energize teams and resolve any issues.
The goal of team building is primarily to establish a company culture and gain the buy-in of all employees. It is perfectly suited to seeing things differently and implementing new team operations or approaches.
How does team building work?
Team building aims to bring together different groups of people, mix them, and get them to collaborate and share ideas towards a common goal—success—through a workshop that is both fun and educational.
This workshop usually lasts two hours and takes the form of a module or takes place during a seminar. It confronts participants with their communication problems and daily anxieties, forcing them to solve them to succeed. Collaboration and communication become mandatory to achieve the set objective.
Team building is both a practical exercise and a state of mind: success through teamwork.
Should team building be fun or educational?
It is important that team building has both fun and educational aspects.
Team building is a tool for raising awareness, and its fun aspect creates a shared experience, overcoming the fear of "speaking up" and "feedback".
Everyone contributes their expertise to a common goal, sometimes hearing their colleague's thoughts and suggestions for the first time. All this happens in a relaxed atmosphere, precisely created by the fun aspect of team building, without the apprehension of being judged.
In the form of a fun workshop, team cohesion is strengthened. Participants let go of their barriers and prejudices towards each other.
Who is team building for?
Generally, team building is for all types of groups: whether in sales or management, the needs are always the same—to unite the team, communicate, and collaborate.
So-called "expert" groups communicate and collaborate with so-called "commercial" groups. Everyone learns from each other; individuality gives way to a shared identity, a belonging to the same group, regardless of their initial training, to serve a common purpose: success.
Are training and team building linked?
Team building lays the foundation for training. Management training, as such, is much more difficult without prior team building.
Through its work on cohesion, collaboration, and communication, team building establishes the necessary foundations for training, whether it's personal effectiveness, sales, management, or leadership training. This short module encompasses all aspects of professional needs: knowing how to communicate and collaborate, which allows one to manage and sell.
In conclusion, team building is indeed fun, but it is "pedagogically fun." Thanks to the façade of entertainment it offers, it lays the groundwork for communication, cohesion, and teamwork. It frees participants from their apprehension about "feedback," develops, and strengthens the internal network that is so difficult to create in an international world.
Team building is in itself a "training that motivates" and a "meaningful tool" for employees and the company.
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
However, team building can be a great tool for bringing teams together, motivating them, and raising awareness. Behind the fun, it allows for real work to be done by the participants and the company.
Why choose team building?
Team building is usually chosen when there is a lack of cohesion within teams, or when a group has difficulty working and communicating together.
When a company has undergone significant changes or recently welcomed new employees, team building can also be a good way to energize teams and resolve any issues.
The goal of team building is primarily to establish a company culture and gain the buy-in of all employees. It is perfectly suited to seeing things differently and implementing new team operations or approaches.
How does team building work?
Team building aims to bring together different groups of people, mix them, and get them to collaborate and share ideas towards a common goal—success—through a workshop that is both fun and educational.
This workshop usually lasts two hours and takes the form of a module or takes place during a seminar. It confronts participants with their communication problems and daily anxieties, forcing them to solve them to succeed. Collaboration and communication become mandatory to achieve the set objective.
Team building is both a practical exercise and a state of mind: success through teamwork.
Should team building be fun or educational?
It is important that team building has both fun and educational aspects.
Team building is a tool for raising awareness, and its fun aspect creates a shared experience, overcoming the fear of "speaking up" and "feedback".
Everyone contributes their expertise to a common goal, sometimes hearing their colleague's thoughts and suggestions for the first time. All this happens in a relaxed atmosphere, precisely created by the fun aspect of team building, without the apprehension of being judged.
In the form of a fun workshop, team cohesion is strengthened. Participants let go of their barriers and prejudices towards each other.
Who is team building for?
Generally, team building is for all types of groups: whether in sales or management, the needs are always the same—to unite the team, communicate, and collaborate.
So-called "expert" groups communicate and collaborate with so-called "commercial" groups. Everyone learns from each other; individuality gives way to a shared identity, a belonging to the same group, regardless of their initial training, to serve a common purpose: success.
Are training and team building linked?
Team building lays the foundation for training. Management training, as such, is much more difficult without prior team building.
Through its work on cohesion, collaboration, and communication, team building establishes the necessary foundations for training, whether it's personal effectiveness, sales, management, or leadership training. This short module encompasses all aspects of professional needs: knowing how to communicate and collaborate, which allows one to manage and sell.
In conclusion, team building is indeed fun, but it is "pedagogically fun." Thanks to the façade of entertainment it offers, it lays the groundwork for communication, cohesion, and teamwork. It frees participants from their apprehension about "feedback," develops, and strengthens the internal network that is so difficult to create in an international world.
Team building is in itself a "training that motivates" and a "meaningful tool" for employees and the company.
Philippe Montant
CEO of ReKrute
