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Why “ Teambuilding ” Doesn’t Work

Are you wasting valuable training and operational dollars?

We’ve all been there before. A senior management meeting, message or conference includes a fun ‘ teambuilding’ event where everyone gets engaged in some team activity or challenge.. And every year people look towards it with mixed feelings as they, and large numbers of colleagues participate in activities from laser shoot-em ups to go-kart racing and rah-rah events. A week later, managers are wondering why their teamwork is still mediocre. The truth is that almost every dollar spent on these feel-good programmes has an extremely low return on investment.

People who are in a decision-making position in your company that sees them buying services of such team events/programmes, will continue to waste your company’s funds and here’s why:

1) the vast majority of decision makers fail to distinguish between teambuilding processes and outcomes, and team bonding events. The latter produce very little real ROI except provide some pleasant distraction for your staff for a day and some very temporary heightened sense of well-being. Their decision to buy into such a programme is largely focused on what games and activities that will be provided and at what price.

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Team building has become the buzzword in the corporate scenario, no individual can work in isolation and the good ideas become excellent ideas by sharing them, hence it is quite essential that the organizations have to take an effort to build strong teams so that the employees show excellent signs of improvement.

In big organizations the individuals have to be motivated both monetary as well as non monetary rewards and the management can motivate them by the monetary benefits on a whole but as far as the motivation on the individual basis is concerned the team members among themselves act as the inspirational and motivational pillars, hence the saying very truly has become very popular that in a team there is no ‘I’ and it is always we that finds its way better in a team. Team building has remained an ideal goal for many organizations because of its innumerous benefits which the team spirit offers.

Team building is an ideal way, through which the employees have fun, boost themselves as well as the other members in the team, build good employer employee relations, and with all these benefits the final output that is the employees become highly productive. With the amazing benefits the team spirit offers we can realize the fact as to why the team building events in an organization have become one of the top prioritized objectives in any organization. Hence team building collaboration and maintaining unity in a team is important as well as very essential. Great teams are the ones which produce good results in their output and are always energized to do work of good quality plus the willingness to appraise the name of the team which in turn will appraise the name of the organization.

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