Team Building

What is team building?

The action or process of causing a group of people to work together effectively as a team, especially by means of activities and events designed to increase motivation and promote cooperation

Therefore 'Team Building' is the process of enabling that group of people to reach their goal.

In its simplest terms, the stages involved in team building are:

• To clarify the team goals
• To identify those issues which inhibit the team from reaching their goals
• To address those issues, remove the inhibitors and enable the goals to be achieved

Benefits of team building from the Employer perspective

It can bring a number of benefits to your organisation, in particular:

• Improves productivity and motivation
• Improves teams strengths and weaknesses
• Identifies barriers that could stop creativity
• Improves morale and leadership skills

Benefits of team building from the Employee perspective

• Improves productivity and motivation
• Improve Communication and builds on effective working relationships
• Improves teams strengths and weaknesses
• Identifies barriers that could stop creativity
• Finds solutions to team problems
• Improves role clarification and reduces team members role ambiguity
• Improves morale and leadership skills for all staff

Support for team building

In Hampshire there are a number of Outdoor Education Centres which provide the facilities for away days.

There are in addition a number of team building websites which are available to access.