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Squad Goals — The 6 Most Important Objectives of Team Building

1. Establish Connections

For most people, work consumes most of their time. In many cases, you may spend more time with those you work with than at home. Yet, after an unusual year with an unforeseen pandemic, there has also been a large increase in working remotely. Given this, getting to know one another in the workplace is more important than ever. It’s critical for your employees to get a chance to get acquainted with each other off-the-clock. Many employees love going to work because of the connections they have made. Building relationships inside and outside can increase performance improvements among departments as well as foster loyalty to your company.

2. Improve Communication

As important as establishing connections is improving employee communication. Team building encourages teamwork among employees by building connections and bonds between co-workers. The communication involved in your group’s activity forces engagement among a variety of departments and teams. Team building has proven to cultivate respectful comfortable and pleasant communication that improves productivity and cohesion with team-based projects.

3. Increase Engagement and Motivation

Team building activities are naturally designed to increase teamwork by developing morale and trust among employees while having fun. And we all know higher morale and trust often results in employee longevity as well as improved motivation. Choosing an activity that involves trust can also help leaders and staff get on the same page by improving understanding of what motivates people and giving employees ownership of the big picture or company vision.

4. Foster Creativity

Team building is a fun environment aimed to foster creativity. Team exercises encourage innovation participation that can result in not only new ideas from another perspective, but also shape your employee’s confidence in their employer. After all creativity thrives among happy and willing employees and leaders. Plus, with a nurturing environment you have a better chance of seeing hidden talents from unlikely people.

5. Uncover Leaders

Team building unleashes natural leadership qualities and exposes future employee leaders. A fun yet relaxing activity delivers leadership an opportunity environment to discover new prospective leaders. Through problem solving and challenges, employees often reveal leadership and untapped career skills that may be developed given the right opportunity.

6. Build Trust

The most important cornerstone of any successful business is trust. Team building allows employees to see management in a new fun light they may not have seen prior to the team building activity. By building trust, it makes it easier to communicate with them. As trust increases among employees so will productivity for your company.

Casey Romano, Publisher | meetingpages | casey@meetingpages.com

Creator of digital platform meetingpages complete event planning directory and resource delivering leads and national, regional and local exposure for event venues, suppliers and destinations in MN, WI, IA & CO markets. In her free time, this 19 year industry veteran enjoys dance, group fitness, and training her young golden retriever dog in competition obedience and confirmation.