Five benefits teambuilding activities bring

Organising teambuilding activities is one of the most important tasks of a company HR specialist. Many organisations hold such events with the vague notion that they help employee bonding but they have neither a detailed plan of what it is they want to achieve, nor a clear idea about what team building does and what its functions are. It is therefore advisable to remind yourself of five benefits team building brings to both a company and its employees.

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Development of creativity

According to HR Morning, team building helps develop the creativity of both individual employees and entire groups. For many employees, team building means a change from the everyday routine and helps present problems and possible solutions from new points of view.

Confirmation of roles within a team

For a team to work smoothly and effectively, it is necessary that its members have clearly profiled and defined roles. These roles are primarily distributed officially, but then also through experience and over time as individual employees manifest their personalities. Team building events help detect and confirm the roles of individual members of the group.

Setting up of procedures

Team building activities are an ideal way to try out the set-up and functioning of general work procedures of a team in a new environment. Procedures, solving conflicts and efficiency of internal communication must work as well in teambuilding as they do in the office.

Finding unknown talents

A new environment and non-standard situations that teambuilding activities bring are an ideal background for finding new talents and skills of individual workers. You may learn that someone has knowledge that nobody previously knew about but which might be used in the future.

Bonding

Last but not least, team building events are excellent for the bonding of individual employees and their effective and informal cooperation in the future. This applies especially to people from various departments that do not usually engage with one another in the normal course of events.

 

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Article source HR Morning - American portal for HR managers
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