lundi 29 avril 2019

Many Corporate Employees Achieve Self Empowerment Through Team Building

By Brian Young


The way in which businesses are run have change in many ways over the past decade or two. Employees no longer merely follow instructions received from above but are instead organized into self directed teams. These teams each have certain goals to achieve and every member of the team has a clearly defined role to play. However, for such a system to work a high level of trust and cooperation between all members of the teas are required. To this end, employers routinely promote self empowerment through team building.

Teambuilding exercises have become very popular. Teams go to a venue away from the office for a day and often even for a few days in order to achieve specific goals. The purpose of the exercise may be to motivate the members anew, to allow them to get to know each other better, to relax after achieving major objective or to learn skills in certain areas, such as how to deal with conflict.

Teambuilding has become a huge industry in its own. Many venues have adapted their facilities and even purchased special equipment in order to attract these groups. Motivational speakers, entertainers, caterers and event organizers have all mobilized to take advantage of this ever growing trend in the corporate market. It is a lucrative market indeed.

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.

It is necessary to know whether a teambuilding exercise has achieved its goals or not. That is why evaluation is important. The event coordinator as well as the participants needs to give feedback constantly and when the event is done, they need to submit reports. If this is not done, there is no way of knowing whether further interventions are required or whether existing objectives have been achieved.

In this modern competitive business environment companies need to be innovative, creative and highly motivated. This can only be achieved if all the teams employed by the company are creative and motivated. Teambuilding exercises can certainly help to make sure that employees are empowered to make a real contribution to the efforts of their teams.




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