Team Building - Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
Jackie Wahome, Customer Experience Trainer
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The Importance of Team Building for Businesses in Kenya
Team work makes the dream work (John C. Maxwell)
You have probably heard this phrase many times. How does it apply in Kenyan businesses??
It’s as simple as it sounds. You can accomplish your most significant obstacles when you have a team that shares a common goal and cooperates to achieve it.
So What Really Is Team Building?
Team building is the process of assisting a group of people learn how to productively work as a team. The activities and events involved in team building are usually fun and motivational with the purpose being to assist teams, build skills on planning, communication and problem solving.
The significance and principal purpose of team building is to make significant areas of strength through shaping connections and bonds. Making these bonds through team building is highly advantageous to organizations and associations.
The advantages of team building include but are not limited to; Expanded correspondence, arranging abilities, representative inspiration and a working team effort.
If you are a business owner in Kenya, you may wonder how much your business can benefit from team building. Well, let’s delve into this:?
1.?????Encourages Networking and Socializing.?
Socializing and making companions in the work environment is perhaps the most effective way to increase efficiency in the virtual, hybrid, or in-person working environment.?
With Covid-19 checking in and changing how we traditionally did business, our new normal now incorporates virtual or hybrid working environments but still, team work cannot be overlooked.?
For those virtual or hybrid work places, team building assists the team with adjusting to a virtual workplace all the more proficiently, tackling issues that surface with the "new normal."?
So besides the fact that team building increases morale in the workplace: it also gets people to loosen up a little bit and break the awkward unfamiliarity barrier in the office, allowing employees to connect and socialize more.
?2.????Builds Trust
Trust assumes a fundamental part in building successful teams. For teams to cooperate, they need to realize they can trust one another. That the employees can turn to one another for support when the need arises.?
Additionally, as a manager, when you are able to build trust among teams, it encourages them to give each other space and independence to achieve their assignments and go with their own choices.
When employees have a solid sense of safety, they tend to open up, letting their colleagues know about their weaknesses and strengths and agree on the next course of action.
3.?????Team Spirit, Fun, Celebration, and Motivation.
Have you watched a game on TV or better yet, been to the Nyayo National stadium here in Kenya and seen the celebration and pomp after the winning team takes the championship? They celebrate and have a great time, which inspires them to need to win considerably more.?
The same model shows that the festival, cheering, and fun that accompany each Team Bonding occasion can rouse workers to carry their responsibility to a higher level!
4.????Creates Something to Look Forward To
Whether it is one time per week or like clockwork, booking team-building exercises will give your workers something to anticipate other than those project deadlines. Nobody wants to look at their schedule only to see the seemingly endless rundown of errands.?
Have your employees become excited about non-business-related occasions during the weeks and not only towards the weekend. It is also necessary to recognize that these occasions give employees a common goal that doesn't have to be accomplished with their work.?
This genuinely much-needed activity is great for mental health and integrates back with establishing a surer workplace for individuals who make your organization successful.
5.?????Show Employees Appreciation
Similarly, team building occasions let employees feel appreciated for their persistent effort. It is common for extraordinary work to unintentionally be hidden where no one will think to look because of an ocean of different things.?
As a business owner, focusing on these occasions shows employees you care about them and value their efforts by rewarding them with a great movement that the team can partake in together.
6.????Unlock Leadership Potential
In a more creative and relaxed environment, you might find employees who have hidden abilities that haven't been found in the workplace. Leaders can emerge from the most straightforward of exercises and may amaze you.?
Routinely booked team-building occasions can ensure employees' trust in the working environment.?For instance, you might find that the calm new customer service representative is mind-blowing at moving or motivating their friends.?
With the ideal coach, advancement, valuable open doors, and consolation, a once reserved employee could be your organization's next rising leader.
7.?????Fosters Creativity and Learning
Effective team building inspires workers to gain from one another and expand each other’s abilities. When compared with working independently on a task, cooperation provides an opportunity for new thoughts and new viewpoints.?
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It unites individual experiences joined with fresh, imaginative ideas, making the work more efficient and fun. Subsequently, everybody can bring a genuinely new thing to the table and gain from one another.
A fruitful team building contributes to a more creative workplace, as people tend to have a greater imagination when they are comfortable.
8.????Makes People More Accepting
The competition to make progress ought to be equivalent where everybody is given equal importance, assets, and chances to achieve their goals.
With working environments turning out to be more comprehensive towards social and orientation variety, your employees need to do their piece. It is prudent to frame teams with individuals from various identities and foundations.?
Such gatherings are much of the time more imaginative as they are seriously tolerating and comprehending each other's differences. It enables them to understand that their biased judgment or labels towards an individual is off-base and that perhaps a particular colleague is pretty pleasant to work with.
9.????Resolves Conflicts
When individuals work together, there are sure to be conflicts. It depends on colleagues to resolve the problems agreeably and not let them turn into all-out disputes. In any case, clashes aren't generally something terrible. They can once in a while transform into helpful and significant work.
Conflicts, particularly, could emerge assuming individuals with different experiences are assembled instead of those with comparable experiences. The way to settle such disputes is for employees to be ready to receive and acknowledge different thoughts and points of view from their own?
On the off chance that colleagues can bunch their different opinions, abilities, and experiences, they can accomplish more than a gathering framed on comparable experiences.
?10.??Improves Company Culture
At the point when teams cooperate, it encourages creativity and development in the work environment. Employees convey and work together more.?
This works on their exhibition and proficiency, settles conflicts and misunderstandings and makes individuals more tolerant towards one another. More individuals begin getting recognized, which persuades them and others to accomplish more and better the next time.?
It works on the organization's general main concern and, at the same time, cultivates a positive and inspiring work environment culture.
As a business owner or manager it would be ideal to encourage employees to work harmoniously by:
The goal of team building is to help employees work together as one and one of the most important factors to consider and ensure as an organization, is that the desired outcome of oneness is achieved.
An activity in a team building is meant to achieve a certain desired result and this needs to be reinforced in subsequent meetings.
Building a successful team can sometimes be difficult and challenging only because it brings together an array of opinions, past work experiences, values, upbringings, work goals, prior team experiences and skills in communication and team building. Not to worry though, teamwork and cooperation can be taught and developed.
Remember…A team that cooperates performs and succeeds.
As Andrew Carnegie appropriately said, "...It is the fuel that permits common people to attain uncommon results."
Are you missing out on the benefits of team building?
Reach out to Customer Centric Kenya for a team building tailored specifically to address the core gaps in your organization in a fun, engaging and memorable way.
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Jackie Wahome, a Customer Experience Trainer in Kenya with over 15 years of experience in Customer Experience across different industries in Kenya.
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