Things to Do Before You Start Team Building Activities


by Anirban Bhattacharya - Date: 2008-08-09 - Word Count: 337 Share This!

 

Taking a break from the office for a corporate event is the best way to add some excitement to your life. Going out for adventure sports as well as doing team building activities are good ways to get closure to your colleagues and friends. Many activities can also be used to develop skills in more than one area and you can select an activity to support the skills which you want to develop.

Team building activities are helpful in developing collective decisions, trust, co-operation, influencing, analyzing performance, planning, leadership, time management, communication, problem solving, working under pressure, creative thinking, motivation and many other skills. These team challenge exercises can also be used with teams to improve relationships or their performance.

Before planning for any team building activities think about the things to be done and kept in mind, before you start any corporate events activity.

Clear the following points before starting any team challenge:

1. Understand whether you want an indoor or outdoor team building event.

2. Understand which activity you want to do.

3. Which skills you and your group want to develop.

4. After deciding the activity, find the best place which offers you best team challenge activities. You can also take help from a good event advisor.

5. If you happen to be a team leader then decide the work or activity to be done by each member. Plan how the goal can be accomplished, what steps are needed and how the responsibilities are to be distributed.

6. According to each member's strengths and weaknesses you should divide their responsibilities as per the requirement your team's goal.

7. Before giving them responsibilities it is compulsory for you to minutely understand each member. The better you understand them, the better output you can derive from each member.

8. Apart from testing your members' skills you can also use these team building activities for their professional growth.

Team challenging assignments are good event activities for all over development of an individual's personality, thus helping corporate sector to polish and know their employees.


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