The Value of Team Building!

Generally, employees and companies have many preconceived ideas about Team Building. Companies feel they are wasting money letting employees have fun, and employees think these are superficial events, thrill-seeking activities with little professional value. However, Team Building can be a great tool for team building, motivation, and awareness, allowing, behind the fun aspect, real work for participants and the company.

1- Why choose Team Building?
Generally, Team Building is 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 change or recently welcomed new employees, Team Building can also be a good way to energize teams and resolve any issues. The aim of Team Building is above all to build a company culture and to gain the support of all employees. It is perfectly suited to seeing things differently and implementing a new way of working or a new team approach.

2- How does a Team Building event unfold?
The idea of Team Building is to bring together different groups, mix them, and get them to collaborate and express their ideas towards a common goal, success, through a workshop that is both fun and educational. This workshop lasts an average of 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 and forces them to solve them to succeed. Collaboration and communication become essential to achieve the set objective.
Team Building is both a practical exercise and a state of mind: success through teamwork. Should a Team Building event be fun or educational? It is important that Team Building has both a fun and an educational aspect. Indeed, Team Building is a tool for raising awareness and its fun aspect allows for the creation of a shared experience by unlocking the fear of "saying things" and "feedback". Everyone contributes their expertise to a common goal, sometimes listening for the first time to the thoughts and suggestions of their neighbor.
All this in a relaxed atmosphere 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.

3- Who is Team Building for?
Generally, Team Building is for all types of groups: whether in sales or management, the same needs always emerge: team building, communication, and collaboration. So-called "expert" groups communicate and collaborate with so-called "commercial" groups. Everyone learns from each other; individuality gives way to a common identity, belonging to the same group, regardless of their initial training, to serve a common goal: success.

4- Are training and Team Building linked?
Team Building lays the foundation for training. Managerial training as such is much more difficult without prior Team Building. Indeed, through its work on cohesion, collaboration, and communication, Team Building puts in place the necessary skills for training, whether it is personal effectiveness training, sales training, management training, or leadership training. This short module encompasses all aspects of professional needs: knowing how to communicate and collaborate, which allows one to know how to manage and sell.

In conclusion, Team Building is certainly fun, but it is "pedagogically fun". Thanks to the outward entertainment it offers, it lays the foundations for communication, cohesion, and teamwork. It frees participants from their apprehension of "feedback", develops and strengthens internal networking, so difficult to create in an international world. Team Building is in itself a "training that motivates" and a "meaningful tool" for both employees and the company.

Philippe Montant CEO ExeKutive.biz