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Team Building Exercise Ideas

Selecting the appropriate team building programme can be tremendously beneficial in improving your company’s general communication skills and levels of morale. Employees can be transformed from a random collection of self-interested individuals into a mutually dependant team of workers taking responsibility for their own actions as they strive towards a common goal. Not only this, but they will have more fun doing so after they know each other better and have built up a greater level of respect and understanding. As we spend the majority of our time at work, meeting our colleagues outside office hours to learn more about them and what their particular skills and abilities are makes good sense. And office environments occasionally become staid and routine, so a well chosen team building exercise enables colleagues to see one another in a different light, with the knock on effect of their being able to get more out of each other at work.

However the benefits of conducting such exercises are only felt if the right sort of team building is chosen. As such, it is worthwhile taking some time to examine the kind of workforce you have and what its particular strengths and weaknesses are when deciding what sort of team building exercises are most beneficial. You could view team building simply as a means of enabling colleagues to get to know each other better or use it to strengthen an area of your business that is traditionally weaker than the others. Who’s to say, you might even consider it the perfect means of reinforcing a new corporate message, facilitating the workforce’s adjustment to working under new management or encouraging a greater use of lateral thinking. Whatever the cause, it’s worthwhile defining your goals and the new skills and fresh perspectives you want people to come away with.

Now we come to the question of what kind of exercise is appropriate for your workforce, bearing in mind that it is important nobody is excluded from all the fun and games. Perhaps your office is only constituted of athletic young men who regularly go to the gym and are in excellent health, in which case your idea of a Royal Marines type expedition inside the Arctic Circle in the middle of winter with only a swimming costume and a packet of Rich Tea biscuits is a good one. Or your staff are exclusively constituted of Oxbridge educated members of Mensa, in which case your notion of extended sessions of Countdown and University Challenge might just work. Most likely, though, your workforce is constituted of people of all sizes and skills and the last thing you want is to make anybody feel they have nothing to contribute. There are two ways of handling this. Either you set different segments of your workforce different team building exercises depending on their abilities, or you find an exercise that includes everybody.

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