The Importance of Team Building in HR Management

May 12 2017 - Team building can play a huge part in strengthening a corporate culture and a great tool in achieving an efficient organisation. It can balance the five key elements of a productive team: leadership, roles, goals, policies, procedures, and relationships.

We'll take a look at why team building can contribute an important role in any business and how it can contribute dividends in streamlining HR Management.

Uniting Teams

With good team building skills, you can unite employees around a common goal and generate greater productivity.

Build it into Your Companies Objectives

Team building cannot only provide an overall insight into how employees perform together but enables you can set tasks with company objectives in mind. This can be done by including activities set around your company direction for the year. It's a great opportunity to ask employees about any of the queries they have and what they feel could be improved.

Engaged Workforce

"You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best." (Andrew Carnegie)

Its proven that when a company focuses on their people, it benefits all aspects of the business. Engaged employees perform better, communicate better and are more creative. Team building helps break up the monotony of the office and allows for employees to feel engaged.

Engaged employees are also less likely to leave a company, ensuring that staffing in HR Management becomes less complicated and retention is high.

Removing Conflict

Sometimes there might arise conflicts between co-workers. Team building activities can make these conflicts resolve through various methods. By forming bonds, it will be easier to remove those conflicts and enhance relationship.

Communication

If communication in the workplace is poor or just needs a little boost, hands-on team building events provide a platform to improve interaction. For those employees who are quieter in groups, team building events can allow these employees the vocalise their opinions and feel more comfortable talking in groups.

It also allows for team members to communicate more clearly with each other, in a completely new setting.

Do Something You've Never done Before

Choosing something unique and slightly outside of people's comfort zones can encourage them to come together in new ways. There are a range of team building experiences out there but one interesting event is a circus skills workshop, offered by Team Tactics. Ever tried juggling or unicycling? What better opportunity to learn new skills then doing this with your colleagues.

Develops Problem-Solving Skills

Team building activities that require co-workers 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.

Increases Trust

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. Use project management templates to capture information and share it across teams.

Meeting New People

Team building provides the opportunity to bring together people from management and workforce, some of which may not have worked in a close proximity previously.

Fun

This benefit is often ignored but what employee doesn't enjoy getting out of the office and having fun? Team building events can reinforce the value of having fun in the workplace and what significant results can actually be achieved when fun is involved.

Builds Responsibility

Every member of a team has a role to contribute. Being responsible for a role will either ensure it is fulfilled or learnings are taken from it to apply for future. Team building will highlight how taking responsibility and providing responsibility are both critical contributors to team performance.

Improving Results

Team building can be structured to focus specifically on results. For example, using a team building exercise to develop a new campaign strategies for your company.

Reinforcing Work Culture

Team building activities can help to reinforce the values of a company and can contribute to the overall organisational culture. Sometimes team building programs reinforce a culture and other times they may actually evolve a culture.

We hope we've provided a bit of insight as to how team building exercises can enhance a workforce in a variety of ways which will ease the pressure of any HR management professional and strengthen any company.

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