Saturday, March 17, 2012

Exciting Corporate Treasure Hunt

All of us know how important communication is for survival and to grow and evolve. Without communication it would be impossible to convey ideas and thoughts. To grow as a business, you need to share certain ideas, thoughts, opinions, judgments and suggestions and to share these, you first need to convey. This is looking at communication in its most basic form in the workplace. Most teams communicate with each other as a need, and not in actuality, this is where the meaning of communication skills is precisely lost. Employees need to understand what exactly is meant by communication and communication skills, inculcate these in their workplace behaviour, and then gradually improve them. As far as improving team communication skills are concerned, there are 5 steps mentioned below which you can follow to conquer your objective of improving the said skills. 

If you want to teach your employees the best communication skills, you have to first teach them the importance of communication and why we need it. There has to be understanding of the concept to learn more about it, and to then enhance this knowledge even more. Communication skills are not limited to only the way you communicate verbally, but also to other methods of communication. Communication also includes aspects such as body language that play an equally important role in determining efficient communication. Once you inculcate this importance, you can proceed to sharpen that knowledge by learning the communication skills.

Team building events are one of the best ways to improve communication skills and fun too. They also give you the much-needed break from work and daily chores in the workplace. Communication games can include some fun games where the communication skills of employees can be tested by making them compete against each other..

Communication might not come easily to everyone, and this makes it important for the employer/organization to hold team building activities like corporate treasure hunt that would promote team communication. Also tell the employees how to communicate with each other in the perfect way and in lesser time. These activities tell us how minimum communication can get great productivity in less time. You can either search the Internet for some team building activities or call a professional to conduct these activities.

Take the corporate team building events outside the office for more fun and frolic and organize amazing race.  This team building game is a prototype of the actual Amazing Race. The whole idea is to have a treasure hunt all over the city. The clues have to be about the city's history and current affairs. Take away their cell phones, money, cars and all the other frills. Hand them a small budget so that they can use the local transport facilities, reach to their final destination. This is an excellent game to hone communication, leadership, negotiation, strategy skills and the art of managing all of this within strict time frame.

You can also organize Cooking team building that will make the entire team members be involved in preparing a meal for the whole group. This will make them work together for a common goal during the day and become free with each other. It is the perfect team building idea.

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