Counsellor Shivani Misri Sadhoo shares why team building exercises are critical to the corporate culture and must be included regularly in training processes

Counsellor Shivani Misri Sadhoo shares why team building is essential for corporate training processes

Team-building exercises are critical to constituting a corporate culture where people enjoy coming to work, co-operate easily, and trust each other. As a business leader, you should never expect a strong team to just happen when you hire competent, good people. Make it a priority to routinely conduct small team-building exercises rather than depending on one or two big events every year. Here are some pointers.

EMBRACE DIVERSITY AMONG EMPLOYEES

When you conduct team-building exercises like a cultural potluck, you invite people into a comprehensive environment, celebrating diversity. It is only natural for people to mingle with those they find something in common with. Team-building exercises revolving around diversity help open the paths of communication and teach people how they can be colleagues and may even become friends.

ENCOURAGING INNOVATIVE IDEAS

When you get your team together and people gel, brilliant ideas froth to the top. Corporates with an open floor plan, like Google and Facebook, where creative people sit and interact regularly provide new innovations. They are leaders not just through team-building exercises but also by creating an atmosphere of interaction because they understand that helps give them an edge in creating technological innovations.

MAKE HAPPY TEAMS

Customers and clients will be happier because your team is happier. When your employees work as a team and are eager to perform for you, they are less likely to change the job. This decreases turnover costs associated with hiring and on-boarding of new employees. Your clients will become more loyal as well, because they enjoy coming to do business with you and your team which works to achieve common goals.

BETTERING PRODUCTIVITY METRICS

When your team is getting along, office stress reduces drastically. When stress is reduced, there's more energy to do more work. The straight result of spending time and money to build your team is productivity. When people are less stressed, they simply perform well. Plus, when the workload increases, a team works together to get the job done on time. The outcome is a more efficient system where everyone is contributing optimally. Many business owners think it is a waste of time and money to go for team building work. This is a mistake that might not be visible until you have a dysfunctional team and have to fix things.

TAKEAWAY

When employees work as a team and are eager to perform, they are less likely to leave the organisation or move elsewhere