Team Building

One day while I attended the leadership conference and was happily sitting next to the MD of the largest steel maker. During the discussion and sharing a little about our background and current issues, both of us felt a connection that we have the conviction to discuss these matters on our business.

However, something bothers me during our conversation. I could not let his criticism of what I love to do, which is running a business team building. But now, team building is used as one of its intervention tools of empowerment, in the workplace to overcome problems and drive business results!

In this article we will see how team building can be beneficial for the organization and the message is addressed here would be useful for individuals with less, wrong or misleading information on this type of experiential learning approaches.

Experiential learning program as a team building is used as the most efficient way many organizations continue to "behavior change" and deliver the right end results in the workplace. Proper design and delivery of such a program has a major impact on individual behavior, in comparison with other approaches. "

However, the HR generalist and HR practitioners did not always have the opposite attitude about it. Up to 60% of managers have a narrow understanding of the possible consequences that can be achieved from this program. As such, they only see this program as an aberration or "escaped" from stress at work agenda.

The power of experiential learning through a properly designed program is outside the team bonding and motivation!

The HR person or the management team, it's always a big struggle for them to create a sense of belonging among its people because of the lack of inter-organization relationships and cross cultural issues. However, such a question is a common problem in team building and it can be easily solved.

We will try to look at different types of team building available for the organization:

First Retreat Programme - The focus on entertainment value
Rating 1-10: Fun: 10 - Teaching: 0 - Behavior Modification: 0 - Workplace Page: 1

Second The team bonding program - Focus on employment
Rating 1-10: Fun: 8 - Learning: 5 - Behavior Modification: 8 - Workplace Page: 1

Third Motivational Program - Focus on understanding ourselves and inspiring individual
Rating 1-10: Fun: 8 - Learning: 5 - Behavior Modification: 8 - Results of jobs: 5

4th Solutions-driven program - Focus on how to tackle and overcome the critical problems in the workplace
Rating 1-10: Fun: 8 - Learning: 8 - Behavior Modification: 10 - Pages in the workplace: 6-8

5th Performance-driven program
Focus on productivity and ROI, with the Take Back Challenge
Rating 1-10: Fun: 8 - Learning: 8 - Behavior Modification: 10 - Workplace Results: 8-10

* The rating is given based on the proper design and delivery of the program (s). Also based on our analysis of the actual team building projects.

The most appropriate type that matches the organization will depend on the current number of people, usually a bottleneck occurs in the workplace and the performance gap faced by management.

The secrets behind successful programs need to address these 7 questions:

(1) develop a program,
(2) methodological and structured approach,
(3) coach
(4) to take back the challenges of having a team building,
(5) measuring the change in behavior: pre-test and post-test on the relevant components of behavior,
(6) awards for achievers and
(7) the overall ROI of the money spent.

In most cases, the operation results of the projects that contain project return, it should come with a 30 to 90 days after team building challenges, such as:
Retail Sales Challenge
The productivity challenge through motivation
Department to improve the Challenge
The project team challenge
Other Custom Projects

Take back the challenge is not an additional burden? Empowering received during the team building to encourage and challenge participants to show progress in the workplace. With the details described in this article, we hope that your next program will generate your desired results.