It is obvious to see why every employer should want to boost morale among staff. After all, a happy workforce generally communicates better and is ultimately more efficient and productive.
If this is the case, why don’t all businesses send their staff to occasional team building days? It may be because they would rather have the staff working when in the office. However, another reason is that team building events are often used as comic foil on sitcoms.
However, as long as the manager does not worship David Brent from The Office, and see him as a figure of inspiration, the staff – and the entire business – should benefit from indoor team building games.
Fortunately, it is very unlikely any half-way competent manager would value David Brent’s opinion – especially not towards team building. After all, this is a character who summed up his thoughts about team work by saying: “There may be no ‘I’ in team, but there’s a ‘ME’ if you look hard enough”.
No matter what Brent might think about team work, The Office did focus on team building. One of the earlier episodes saw a team building expert come to the office to encourage staff to work together. However, his meeting is quickly taken over by Brent, and changed into a celebration of the manager. It even includes a rendition of the song “Free Love on the Freelove Freeway”.
On the plus side, reality is not the same as this sort of soul-destroying, embarrassing and funny-for-those-watching-it nightmare.
Indeed, many companies across the UK now offer businesses the chance to take their staff out of the office and away on a team building day. Alternatively, an expert can come to your office and get the workforce working together more effectively.
Team building allows staff members to learn and develop the tools and skills necessary to push business growth, sustain improvement and encourage development across the board.
The recession has hit businesses badly and, as a result, many have cut the amount they invest in training, staff development and team building. However, there has never been a more important time to promote these.
Team building can make sure you are in a position to take advantage of new opportunities when the economy recovers. You will definitely want your business to be able to do this.
The variety of different team building exercises are designed to help your team succeed. They will test individual’s mental and physical attributes, promote communication and encouraging them to work together. This will help your team to succeed in the long term.
By ensuring your staff are working together to achieve common goals, team building events help to ensure that your business succeeds in the future. Also, these events help to improve staff satisfaction and morale.
If you choose to work with the right company, indoor team building events can help you and your business a lot. Just be sure that you do not hire the same team building company that was chosen by the management at Wernham Hogg.
Of course, no one would take any sort of hiring advice off David Brent. After all, he summed up his recruitment policy by “Avoid employing unlucky people – throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them”.
Indoor team building can encourage your staff to develop new skills. Team building days can help your business succeed.