We spend a lot of our days at work, so besides working on what you like, it's very important to feel comfortable in the working environment. Feeling comfortable and well with the surrounding people at work is vital. To begin with, workers can use break-times like lunchtime to disconnect with friends, which gives extra energy. Besides, you're not afraid to ask co-workers or the company for help. A relationship that results in a more motivated, and therefore more productive, team that gives the company better results.
What teambuilding is?
Teambuilding in your business means organising activities to encourage good relationships between co-workers. The main goal of these events is primarily about enhancing and improving teamwork by creating spaces where co-workers can meet and share new experiences.
Achieving a good work environment is always very important, but it is even more important in these times of social distance. Above all, you should not seek excuses for the circumstances. Team building activities can be done online, outdoors, or you can start thinking about the activity you're going to do when you get the whole company reunited.
Trust your criterion when choosing an activity. The first activity will always work to break the ice and then, the workers themselves will propose the activities that motivate them the most.
Some activities to enhance teambuilding:
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Workshops: Make random groups among the workers and participate in a workshop for some activity different from the work routine. While doing these activities, the workers will have the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and strengthen cooperation between groups. Let's start with an idea, you can make a workshop to learn how to cook sushi.
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Escape room: It is perhaps the most popular proposal that has also been transformed into the digital world. So, even if you can do it in-person or not, it is a safe bet! In escape rooms, all the team members have the same objective, which they will only achieve by cooperating. A good similarity with the daily life in with the company!
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Team building event: Another option is to periodically organize meetings with the whole company to not work and meet everyone. Perhaps it is better to keep this activity for when the government relaxes the restrictions, but you can start thinking about organizing one for when the whole company returns to the workplace. These days may comprise a bit of food and drinks and more detailed games: trivial of the company, the gunman's game, etc.
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Volunteering: As an organization, you can propose associations or activities to workers outside the company in order to encourage or motivate them to participate. This is another way to do team building, as they will find other co-workers in these activities with similar interests.
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Competitions: Making tournaments between workers helps them to meet each other. They can be done in a group, to enhance teamwork, or individually, as it is a way to meet people outside your teamwork. People can compete for many things. With the current situation, the competition can be about photography, painting, or filming videos. However, when the restrictions will be more relaxed, we encourage you to organize a competition to find the best "tortilla de patatas" from the company!
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Sports activities: Similarly, doing internal tournaments with different sports will eventually result in more team cohesion while promoting the healthy habits of workers.
Finally, we would recommend that as long as it is possible, the teams from the activities should be randomly selected. It is the best way to merge people that do not usually work together or that they have only talked via mail, so far.
If you want to notice qualitative and quantitative improvements within the company, from Axxon we recommend that you start investing in your team. We choose the best talents for your company, but in the end, your workers are the engine of the company, and one way of thanking them is through activities such as these!
