Confirming roles within a team
For a team to work smoothly and effectively, its members need to have clearly profiled and defined roles. These roles are first distributed officially and based on experience, then over time on how individual employees reveal their personalities. Team building events help detect and confirm the roles of the individual members of the group.
Supporting creativity
According to The CEO Refresher, team building helps develop creativity both of individual employees and within entire groups. For many employees, team building means a change from the daily routine and helps problems and their solutions to be seen from new perspectives.
Setting up procedures
Team building activities are an ideal way to test the set-up and functioning of general work procedures of the given team in a new environment. Procedures dealing with conflicts and efficiency of internal communication must work just as well in team building as in the office.
Finding previously unknown skills
The new environment and non-standard situations brought by team building activities are an ideal background for finding new talents and skills of individual workers. You may discover someone has knowledge nobody previously knew about that might be used in the future.
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