Team building activities are essential to improve the team productivity and performance of its members. Team building aims to develop your capabilities, provide seamless communication skills, enhance leadership skills and enable you to work closely with everyone to collaborate and solve problems effectively. In the contemporary business world, company productivity depends on collaborative efforts toward realizing goals. Team building is the essence of effective operations management and managers. Further, organizations should explore the various methods to implement team-based improvements successfully. Without teams, most leaders have to rely on individual skills and effort, which might not be enough to achieve the goals alone. A cohesive group of people sharing the same motivations to accomplish a competitive advantage for the company can help drive productivity.                                                                                    

For a cohesive team, various business team-building activities are necessary to provide awareness and knowledge regarding the importance of shared responsibilities. The main essence of a coherent team are as follows:     

1. The ability of the team to make group decisions
2. The ability of the team to work on solutions together
3. The ability of the team to solve issues by respecting each other’s boundaries
4. The ability of the team to support each other and respect one another’s differences.
5. The ability of the team to trust each other and celebrate each other’s contributions

These five principles should be the main essence of a successful team that would help the company reach its highest potential. A good team also provides personal satisfaction that reduces team conflicts and ensure an enthusiastic atmosphere.                   

Building an Effective Team      

 

The company can take several routes to build an effective team. These routes comprise cost-effective learning programs which include games and collaborative projects. Companies can utilize these learning mechanisms to understand the characteristics of the team to ensure better team functionality in difficult work circumstances. Secondly, they can use these learning experiments to develop interpersonal skills like verbal and non-verbal communication capabilities of various team members. It will reduce any misinterpretation or misunderstanding between the members, thereby reducing conflicts.         

The “Eagle’s Flight” is one of the customizable corporate team building learning program that can help implement collaborative behavior. Effective experimental team building games can help team members make faster decisions to improve processes and teach them how to manage time. These team building games are fun and educational to help people engage actively with the virtual platform to explore the different notions in team building.                                        

Numerous virtual games provide feedback to help an individual achieve their goals like the “Museum Caper” which is a mystery-themed virtual game that allows a group of people to work in teams to track down culprits using the evidence provided in each crime. It encourages the individual employees to utilize their cognitive intelligence and problem-solving skills by working together as a team. The game not only aims to develop cooperation between the team members but also aims to enhance individual leadership skills and capabilities. It encourages every team member to consult and promote understanding and trust to solve the problem. “The Council of Marble Star” is another experiential learning team building exercise that focuses on individual achievements and the utilization of skills to achieve the goal. Each participant in the game has to deliver results within a continuously changing environment. The game teaches the participants to maintain trust and coordination with the other team members. The game can be played by groups of 20 -1000 participants and produces positive outcomes in relation to empowering, negotiating and mastering leadership skills.                              

Team building exercises and activities should have a clear purpose and flexibility. Team members must be allowed to voice their opinions and discuss disagreements openly without hesitation. The team-building games will aim to provide participants a chance to self-introspect their own communication, listening, and networking styles and then improve this with the feedback provided.