If you’ve ever led a team where there were issues, and you noticed your team weren’t working in harmony, perhaps they were missing important communication cues and making mistakes, then you’ll know how problematic it can be. However, there are steps you can take to improve team building in your business and stop the rot before it gets really bad. Skills such as problem solving, analytical thinking and logic, as well as being able to communicate in a friendly manner are all essential in the workplace.
Some business believe team building activities are the answer, and they certainly have their place, but more importantly which team building activities you choose is crucial to getting the results you want. We’re a great fan of corporate escape rooms, and we’re biased because we run them ourselves, and we know how successful they are at team building. But what can we do to help persuade YOU they’re great, why team build at an Escape Room?
What are the most convincing reasons why team building gets results?
Team building events are not only fun but they’re also motivational. While your team are bonding, they’re picking up skills and improving existing ones along the way, ones which will help them carry out their jobs and communicate better with each other. These skills could be anything from planning, conflict resolution, problem-solving, logic and analytical thinking.
Helping to make important long-lasting connections.
While having fun your team are helping to facilitate long term relationships through connections they make on the day. They’ll be able to have better more meaningful discussions and be better able to resolve issues by communicating on a deeper level than before.
Networking and socializing.
By spending time with your work colleagues you’re bonding and getting to know each other, and this will lead to you feeling more relaxed with your work colleagues thus making it easier to work with each other, and this in turn will help to increase productivity in the office. It’ll help boost morale, and in turn help your team to solve everyday problems easier.
Team building is a positive force for good in your business.
You’ll find that your team will be able to work on projects much better than before and find that once they’ve bonded, they know each other’s weaknesses and strengths and can help each other reach important goals.
Competition, increased productivity and team spirit.
You’ll find that if there’s a healthy amount of competition it can increase productivity, and that healthy competitive edge will have been harnessed at the escape room stage.
Fun and increased motivation.
You can have fun on the day and then take that relaxed vibe and use it back at the office. Once your employees are motivated enough to get back to work, you’ll reap the rewards once the hard work sets in. All that celebration in winning and the fun and activities that you’ve used to enhance and encourage those all-important skills will hopefully make themselves known in future projects when it counts.
Collaboration and fostering the innovative and creative in your team.
Once your team are comfortable with each other, they can go back to work as a more effective group. They’ll feel that much closer to each other and have more success in the workplace, coming up with more innovative ideas, and you should see an increase in their creative output.
For team building activities that work – it has to be escape.
All in all, escape is the best way of building your team and helping them bond, thus increasing motivation, creative output and better collaboration. So, if you think you’d like to give your team a gift that just keeps on giving, get in touch with us here at Escape Peterborough and we’ll do all we can to answer your questions and help steer you in the direction of our amazing escape rooms for what is the best team building activity out there.