How would you like to have “the perfect team” in your workplace?

Let’s face it there is no such thing as “the perfect team”, but team building is one exercise that can be done to help you start on your journey to finding “the perfect team”.

There are many types of team building activities and like an artisan, you need to find the right tool for the job, but before you begin building “the perfect team,” you may wish to ask yourself a few questions on what you would like to take out of your team building event.

Team building means different things to diverse people. For some people team building activities should be fun, interactive activities. For others, team building suggests a method in which people talk about the issues that are hindering a positive and productive work environment.

Fun team building events build solidarity and morale. The more developmental team building activities allow the team to emerge with focus, cohesiveness and effectiveness. You must determine your hopes for the team building event so that the activities can be specified to meet your ideas.

Are you looking for an event or a process?

An event is a once off team building session designed for a get-to-know you exercises or to concentrate on specific issues relating to problems you may have in the workplace.

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A process is aimed at long-term development, with several sessions taking place over a few months.
Are the problems within your team skills-based or dynamic based?

Sometimes the team problems are caused by skill deficiencies, at other times the team members may have skills, but the team has morale issues.  A lack of communication, low trust, personality clashes are all problems.  You need to decide if the team lacks skills or if the team has generated an environment in which they cannot work effectively together.

Beach and Bush have facilitators for team building Cape Town who will help you design a program for team building effectiveness. The facilitator will ask about your goals and expectations for the program and the team after the event or process has finished.