How Team building activities helps in growth of organization?

We heard about team building activities performed in organizations to increase productivity and build strong relationships, especially mutual trust, respect and support.

But it’s always important for the management teams to keep check or track though because people and situations change - team building ideas that are irrelevant today may become essential tomorrow.

Team building is a development process that aims to enable all the team members involved to achieve high performance standards, common purpose and achieve set goals in a proactive and motivated manner.

Australia is land of different cultures; the organizations here invite different people from all around the world. It’s always advisable to keep team building activities simple. Games or tasks assigned to team which are easily understood are very well acceptable by all and brings fun.

Some examples of team building activities that enhance team spirit through communicating and sharing together are:

* Team building games in an outdoor setting e.g. mountain climbing, pool side, crewing a sailing ship, paintball exercises, theme park rides and plays, team cooking or bar-b-queue outing, conference events etc.
* Fun team building games such as bowling, go kart racing, sports like cricket, football etc
* Team building fun and creative games such as tower building, creating a paper orchestra, TV commercial, a play etc.
* Formal team building ideas in the workplace may include the use of projects or assignments or shadowing or business-to-business, team-to-team learning including classroom team building activity.
* Now days the expert professionals are usually hired and paid on the basis of package selected for the games and activities they conduct making the efforts 100% successful. These professionals are dedicated team of people who organize and execute the activities during the event. It’s seen that the packages mostly include the gaming material, prizes and refreshments etc, at the cost well deserved for the hard work.

Teams are about US, not me and YOU. Every employee needs to shed his/her ego before stepping in team building activities. Team-building exercises are intended to create a more cohesive and productive environment in which team members can realize the full psychological benefit.
Such employees with refreshed and enthusiasm return and achieve desired goals. This leads to growth of organization.