WHY TEAM BUILDING?

What comes to mind when you hear Team Building?

The definition of team building is relative to different people with some seeing it as a typical day out while others view it as a sports day of sorts. But it’s also important to understand the Genesis of team building and how it emerged.

McDougall (1920) is commonly credited as the first team builder and he introduced various conditions needed for a high functioning group. The emergence of the team idea can be traced back to the late 1920s and early 1930s with the now classic Hawthorne Studies. Elton Mayo (1933), one of the original researchers, pointed out certain critical conditions which were identified for developing an effective work team. It was discovered that a worker’s performance is affected by internal and external social demands and informal groups within the work plant influence the habits and attitudes of the workers.  

Team Building serves as a silver bullet to your organization, team or group where it helps discover the inner leadership, creativity and weaknesses that can be solved. There are times when it is hard to get creative and solve problems within the office environment therefore necessitating a different decision making eco-system that blends with the organizational culture. Another key output that results from team building is FUN. With the increasing office and work-place pressure, a team building session is a recommended dose to keep you calm and still remind you that you are human.

It is of great significance to understand that team building is not just an event but an impactful experience and transformative process geared towards achieving optimum organizational productivity. From our post team building analysis evaluations, our Adept Advisory experts and researchers have identified that team productivity in the office improves by 47% due to enhanced team cohesiveness. A cohesive unit becomes the NAVY SEALS of your organization churning out well coordinated and exemplary output. Fragmentation within departments or business units is a recipe for disaster when left unsolved. Team synergy inculcates inter-departmental and inter-personnel integration.

So whether you are a CEO, departmental head, business unit leader or group leader, sit back and take time to give a thought to team building. Team building is a viable investment rather than a cost.

Happy Team Building.

Charles Muthui is a business planning advisor and team building enabler at Adept Advisory

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