Saturday, May 4, 2019

Self Empowerment Through Team Building Is Becoming Increasingly Popular

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.

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 teambuilding exercises work better if they are controlled and lead by an independent professional human resources development expert. These event organizers are highly paid individuals but their services are comprehensive. They scout suitable venues, devise programs that will help ensure that the objectives are met and they make sure that every single detail related to the excursion is arranged professionally. They remain involved prior to, during and after the exercise.

Teambuilding experts cannot organize a useful event if they are not properly briefed on the purpose of the exercise. They need this information in order to book the best venue, speakers and activities that will ensure that the objectives of the exercise are achieved. Top event organizers will take care of all the arrangements. They will book the venue, caterers and other role players necessary to conduct the various activities.

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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