These days everyone wants to "do teambuilding" to get benefits for their business. But it is very easy to get wrong, resulting in a waste of time and money. Worse, teambuilding is wrong may actually lead to damage your team's performance and result in key people leaving the company.
There are some things you can do to ensure the exercise works for you, and some key mistakes that you want to avoid.
The most common mistakes made in team building are:
1. Excluding the team
2. Do not use a trained facilitator
3. Do not respond when you get the "house"
1 If you want to improve the performance of your team as a whole, you must include all people whose performance you want to improve. If you leave a certain member of your team back in the office, they will not have the benefits of exercise that could form the workforce is divided as some members feel excluded. If you are a small team and need to keep the Board consisting of someone, look at the race two events a week apart. Sure, it costs more money, but what is the cost of hiring someone new to replace a dissatisfied person who has left the team?
Two spend time together as a group is useful for team bonding, but not enough to be called "Teambuilding". Teambuilding is a structured and facilitated process involving a task, or tasks, which are designed to discover the real people skills and abilities, regardless of their workplace roles, and force people to work together as a team . To ensure that happens, you need a leader with the qualifications and experience.
3 Do not treat your teambuilding event as an isolated event. The time and money your company spent on teambuilding exercise will be futile if the collected learning about your people is not put into action as you return. Have you found that the office junior, has a flair for drawing the important aspects of a complex situation? Put him in charge of the minutes of meeting and the training protocols on your enterprise reporting. If the bookkeeper and facilities manager of the pair found the quickest route through the labyrinth, the last day? Put them in planning costs for your office move for now, they will probably save you time and money.
You've invested in your team by organizing your teambuilding event because you believe that your people are worth it and it will bring you results. You can make these results more likely to occur by not doing these mistakes.