Team Building Training

Team Building Training

Team building training is a business fundamental. Taking actions to nurture team members’ mutual trust and reliance upon one another strengthens team cohesiveness and cooperation, which serve to optimize team pride, efficiency, morale, and retention. These virtues, of course, foster the kind of thriving company culture that translates into the highest level of commitment to sales, production and customer experience quality. Yet, in the past, the importance of formal team building programs and exercises was widely debated across the U.S. American business sector.

Fortunately, modern business leaders operate with the benefit of a more evolved understanding of the high impact that formal team-building programs can deliver to a company’s margins. Today’s savvy CEOs prioritize Team Building Training for C-suite leadership staff and HR management in company-wide team building strategies and methods.

Maximally Effective Team Building Training

In order for team building to succeed, all participants must fully commit to the process. The mark of a successful team building effort is in the benefits it yields for its stakeholders, who include the company’s

  • Customers
  • Owners/Stakeholders
  • Managers
  • Workers

By understanding the value to all of the above stakeholders in strengthening team cohesiveness, team building exercise participants can fully grasp and commit to the purpose of team building efforts.

How Team Building Training Events Works

Team building skill is valuable at all levels of personnel functioning and for businesses of all sizes. Bringing people together to participate in a fun activity in which they can support one another can go far toward cultivating developed perspectives on their colleagues and the company.

Providing opportunities for employees get to know fellow team members through less formal interactions alters workplace dynamics in a positive way. Facilitating this associational development helps people relate to each other and view their relationships to one another from perspectives that they could not be expected to have otherwise acquired.

Effective Team Building Training Activities

Some of the best team building activities can be done on the smallest of business budgets. Simple activities can free the participants to more fully experience their time with fellow team members.

Activities can be any that foster mutual understanding and motivation to cooperate at new levels, and in new ways, contexts, environments, etc. Team building activities can range from a week-long retreat at a tropical resort to an hour-long topical group forum on the corporate campus lawn.

Some simple and highly-effective team building activities might include:

  • Team sports days (softball, volleyball, flag football)
  • Novelty race days (Washers, water balloon distance toss, egg and spoon, sack race, etc.)
  • Chili cook-off (costume party, best costume contest, office decorating contests)
  • Camping (mock survival challenges)
  • Inter-departmental or mixed intra-departmental contests and tournaments
  • Lean challenges (department and workstation organization challenges)
  • Role-playing (conflict resolution, internal customer service encounter, problem resolution)
  • Workplace betterment challenges (team idea contests)
  • Social impact team activities (holiday collections drives—food drive, clothing drive, toy drive, coat drive, walkathons, fund-raising 5Ks)

Management employees responsible for team building can find countless fun activities online for the purpose. NOTE: Avoid activities that present unacceptable physical, psychological, or emotional risk, including any that test trust bonds to excess.

Training in Team Building

Customers, of course, prefer to continue buying from, and referring other people to companies that most inspire their confidence and with whom they most enjoy doing business. And, this is the point on which the full value of team building turns. Preparing leadership staff to become effective team builders is a modern business essential, for overcoming obscure obstacles to the realization of an organization’s potential for quality that pulses throughout operations and emanates outward into its customer experience.

Afterburner

We are a team of military and civilian team building leadership speakers, helping organizations throughout the U.S. to develop greater team cohesion and effectiveness. For more information about our presentation, workshops or consultation services, contact Afterburner anytime to arrange an appointment.