Corporate team building unifies teams, increases job satisfaction, and productivity by putting your team in a non-stressful, fun environment. Yes, they should have a little fun in the name of teamwork. Bringing people together in a carefully guided, but flexible environment, gets participants out of their “work personae”. Through games and activities they see each other in a new way. Different strengths emerge and can change impressions of one another in a very positive way. They become more unified.
Great Team Building Programs Reduce Stress
Watch your team de-stress and interact in a more congenial way. Through strategically designed corporate team building programs, participants interact in a relaxed setting. Before long you see the stress dissipate, and people who sometimes bump heads, laughing together and help each other complete a task. All it takes is a few well-designed activities to overcome long-standing conflict. Participants leave the team-building event much more satisfied with their job, because the company invested in them, and they feel better about their teammates.
Show Recognition to Your Team
Back in the work setting, your team is more enthusiastic, more willing to invest themselves, and produce more. While job satisfaction is clearly linked to pay and job level, In Salary.com’s most current survey, employees also cited “Inadequate Development Opportunities and Insufficient Recognition” as reasons to search for a new job. Corporate team building events are a great way to show recognition to a large number of employees. It says, “We are investing in you, because you have value”.
Unify Your Team
A well-conceived and executed team building event can unify your team, help them see their teammates in a different atmosphere, appreciate each other more, increase job satisfaction because you are giving them something special. Something extra, you are investing in them. That in turn brings more productive employees back to your home base, and makes work a happier place.
Connie Timpson is a speaker and trainer specializing in Team Building in Boston, MA that insert fun and energy into any convention or annual meeting. (http://www.teambuildingbostonma.com/) Connie teaches team building events in major cities like New York, Boston, Detroit, and Toronto.