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How Team building activities enhances Strength of organization?
The success of most organizations depends on the ability of individuals to build effective teams who work towards a common goal.
It is not enough to get your group together off site and have a few icebreaker games. If You Want team building to work, you have to show the members of the team that it benefits them personally. We live in a society that seems fascinated with individual accomplishments, more rewards and almost oblivious team spirit.
Do you think of your group as a team? They won’t think of themselves as a team if you or say each one of you don’t think so. Do you reward team performance, or only individual achievements? You won’t have much success in team building if you don’t reward team performance. Let your group know that they are a team, that you expect them to perform as a team by arranging few team building games, and that you will reward their successes as a team. That’s the first step toward team building.
Even in team settings like sports, awards like man of match or most valuable player are granted. That is the environment you have to overcome in order to build your group at work into a team. Efforts shall be made in same scenario and a team awards for best group effort to all stars of playing team shall be given.
Few benefits of Team building activities are:-
• Improves morale and leadership skills
• Finds the barriers that thwart creativity
• Clearly defines objectives and goals
• Improves processes and procedures
• Improves organizational productivity
• Identifies a team’s strengths and weaknesses
• Improves the ability to problem solve
Apart from Love and Money, the strongest motivator available to a manager is self esteem. The more the individual sees a benefit to his or her self esteem from supporting the team, the more successful team building efforts will be.
You being an employee can also reinforce team spirit within your organization by conducting team meetings, posting team news on the bulletin board or your intranet page, and tracking team performance against team goals.
Also, managers or leads need to make employees believe that the team is capable of producing more than the sum of its members. Making up t-shirts, etc. with a team logo or motto can help reinforce the sense of team identity, but it’s not mandatory. Main aim is to print the team spirit in hearts and once that’s done, then organization will surely boom.
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