5 Reasons Why Team Building is Vital to Your Team’s Success
In a world where attention is focused on making the client happy, businesses often forget about their most valued asset — employees.
Specially planned activities not only boost morale of employees, but can also increase the success of your business. Team building activities can be used by any business, large or small, to promote better teamwork in the workplace, and as most business owners and managers know, great teamwork is one of the key factors associated with a company’s success.
Here are a few reasons why team building is important in the workplace:
- Promote better communication among staff
Activities that create discussion enable open communication among employees, and between employees and management. This can improve office relationships and in turn, the quality of work done.
- Motivate employees
Team leadership and team building go hand in hand. The more comfortable your employees are to express their ideas and opinions, the more confident they will become. This will motivate them to take on new challenges, and ultimately want to lead tasks.
- Promotes creativity
Taking a team outside of an office setting and exposing them to new experiences will force them to think outside of their normal routine. Working together with other team members can ignite creativity and fresh ideas, which are great qualities to bring back to the office.
- Develops problem-solving skills
In most office environments, a crisis can happen at any time. Team building activities that require coworkers to work together to solve problems can improve the ability to think rationally and strategically. Teams that are able to determine when a problem arises and know what they can do about it, can then effectively take charge when a real crisis occurs. - Break the barrier between leadership teams and employees
Team building increases the trust factor with your employees. Often in corporate settings there is a disconnect between the leadership team and employees because the employees sense too large of a gap between the two. Team building exercises give leadership the opportunity to be seen as a colleague rather than a boss, which can do wonders for employee morale.
Overall, team building in the workplace develops better communication, boosts morale, motivates staff, breaks-the-ice, to help staff members to get to know each other better, teaches effective strategies, improves productivity, and helps team member to learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as many others. New employees are especially grateful for team building exercises, it helps them to get to know their coworkers in an environment where they aren’t just ‘the new guy.’ After a teambuilding outing at Escape Games PDX, your employees will feel lucky to be part of a company that values their staff.
Our facility can provides game play, as well as conference rooms to discuss business updates and company goals. No matter how large or small, we can accommodate your staff, and boost morale around the office.
Give us a call to book your Team’s Escape today!