mardi 30 avril 2019

Many Corporate Employees Achieve Self Empowerment Through Team Building

By Brian Young


The days when businesses were run by passing instructions from the top down are long gone. Modern businesses use an approach where teams take responsibility for their own objectives and they report jointly. Every member of each group has a well defined role with the purpose of contributing to the achievement of the goals. In successful companies, these teams are highly motivated, in many cases because employers ensure that the members can achieve self empowerment through team building.

The idea behind teambuilding exercises is to remove teams from their places of work and to retire to a venue where they can concentrate upon becoming better teams. The objectives of these exercises differ from case to case. Sometimes they are meant to motivate the members of teams, or they may aim to help teams to get along better or just for members to get each other better outside the work environment.

A massive industry has sprung up around teambuilding exercises. It is a huge market and event organizers, entertainers, venues, motivational speakers and many others have quickly caught on to the fact that they can make money. Many venues have changed their entire marketing strategies in order to attract corporate teambuilding groups. They even buy special equipment and develop a variety of activities.

Experience has shown that these exercises are more likely to achieve their goals if they are led by an independent facilitator. These facilitators charge very hefty fees but in exchange they offer their expertise and they take care of all the arrangements for the excursion. They will book a venue, organize transport, put a program of activities together and act as overall coordinator before, during and after the event.

In order for a teambuilding exercise to achieve its goals it is very important to brief the organizer in detail. Experienced organizers will then be able to book a venue and activities that will be conductive to achieving those objectives. He also needs to know who the members are and whether there are any restrictions regarding physical activities and other restrictions that have to be kept in mind.

It is not just the teambuilding expert that needs to be briefed. The participants also need to be very clear on the objectives. These excursions are all too often treated as holidays but then the employer is just wasting time and money. It may also be important to allow the participants to have some say in the selection of a venue and the proposed program. This will help them to be motivated to make the exercise worthwhile.

A teambuilding exercise cannot be deemed successful unless some form of evaluation takes place. The organizer should carefully evaluate the contributions made by every participant and ideally group feedback sessions should be scheduled at least once a day. After the event, a report by both the organizer and the participants should be submitted and suggestions regarding future development needs can be made.

Teambuilding exercises can be extremely helpful in empowering teams to make a valuable contribution towards the goals of the company. Motivated teams simply perform better and teams can only remain motivated if every member knows his role and performs his duties with enthusiasm. Instead of just following orders, teams become self driven productive units.




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