I had always been a quite a shy wall flower, feeling constantly self conscious and uncomfortable around people I didn’t know very well. It began to get to the point where I felt it was holding me back as I was avoiding social situations. My new job was what really helped me get out of my shell, as after I joined the company on a graduate scheme they suggested we all started considering doing some team building events. At first this terrified me, the thought of being with all those strangers, but oddly enough it ended up changing me completely.

The day was based around the television program The Apprentice and although I was absolutely terrified at first of being made to look silly or failing a task for a team, I soon learnt that’s not what team building events are designed for. My work colleagues were all really friendly and I realised that we were all in the same boat. I even met a woman who was even more nervous than me! It began to put everything into perspective as I understood that this was meant to be fun and help us get on for when we work alongside one another.

Our first challenge was to design a product and as this was similar to our new job, I found that I had easily got the skills that would enable our team to do well. Unlike the TV series that likes to highlight individual’s failings this whole team building event’s ethos was to focus on the positive achievements in each task. This made me feel really confident and able to concentrate on my skills rather than panicking about being singled out. I soon realised that my team were really funny and that I really got on with them, I was genuinely looking forward to working in a professional environment with them.

By the end of the day we were all new friends and ended up continuing the day and going to the pub after! I felt so happy that I could now call these people my friends and we all agreed that the experience had definitely made coming into a new job easier. Since then I have really got on well in my job, so much so I am now a manager myself! We have some new staff starting shortly and after such a great time I am now looking for team building events locally so I can give my new staff the best start possible.

Dominic Donaldson is an expert in the events industry.
Find out more about Team Building Events and how the services available can help your company work better together.

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This article will look at the impact this can have on your organization and how you can structure this to be used effectively.

To start with, employee recognition must be a consistent effort within an organization. There must be a clear plan in place for what will constitute recognition. When developing a plan for providing recognition, you have to think about the actions and behaviors that are important to your organization. If you run a factory, teamwork can potentially be a behavior to recognize because people have to work together to make sure that the finished good is produced as efficiently as possible and with as little waste as possible.

There should be several different ways that you should communicate recognition as well. Having a single outlet for recognizing employees is not good because each person needs to be encouraged and praised in his or her own way. This way will differ slightly or greatly, depending upon whom you talk to. There should be a transparency to this so that everyone knows that certain individuals are not being over-praised and others being not praised enough. Be sure to encourage the leaders of different segments of the business to be involved in a daily basis with praise and recognition as well.

When looking at exit surveys at companies, many employees will often share the opinion that they never felt valued as an employee. Public praise and recognition can demonstrate how employees are valued within your organization. This helps increase the happiness in organizations and productivity tends to increase when employees are happy and satisfied.

One of the ways that you can publicly praise highly successful associates within your company is through employee appreciation. You could decide to use these awards for a number of different categories such as: greatest contributor to company profitability, best team player, most outstanding team leader, or top producer are just a few of the different categories. These awards are ways to rewards those who are successful and demonstrating the core behaviors and actions you deem important in your organization.

As you can see from this article, employee awards can have a major impact. There is little involved on an employers part other than simply buying the award and making employees aware of the process. What better way to talk about your core values than to have awards that publicize those values?

Article Source: RSI-EA4 “Why Every Company Should Use Employee Awards”

Mary writes articles for helping executive shoppers find gifts and how to benefit from personalized executive gifts, promotional products, and corporate awards. Her work is sponsored by Wealthwood Employee Awards and Blog Wealthwood Employee Awards Articles.

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Trust is the belief and confidence in the integrity, reliability and fairness of a person or organization.

Trust is an essential human value and is the grease that keeps teams running smoothly when conflict arises. It is difficult to acquire, and if abused, harder to salvage.

People become nervous and defensive with one another if any of the following occur:

– Decisions are perceived to be unfair.
– Behavior is unreliable.
– Business strategies are unpredictable.
– People fail to follow through on commitments.
– People make excuses or lie to cover up mistakes.
– Work stragegies and systems are unreliable.

People who were raised during the partial eclipse of the industrial age, the baby boomers and their parents, learned to do what they were told and to align with organizations they could trust to make payroll. They were taught to trust their leaders and if necessary lie for them.

For example, the secretary learned to roll off the tongue that the boss was not in, when he was. This little “white” lie was sanctioned if not ordered from the top down. And, similar matters of integrity occur even today, when little white lies serve to cover up mistakes.

Since the rise of the information age, organizations can no longer view their employees the same way as their physical, financial and inventory assets. These assets are owned. People are not. Therefore, the organization’s personnel success or failure hinges on relationship quality and longevity of the relationships it forges with employees. And, long term relationships are based on trust.

Trust is so important to group relationships that people worry or become angry and discontented if trust is damaged. Or, they become numb and with the numbness come complacency, apathy and broken loyalty. Work slows down, profits shrink, and the talented, discontented worker moves on to greener pastures when the opportunity arises.

During a recession threats of job loss breed complacency. After a recession, leaving an organization to find another because of irreconcilable values is the mark of a good leader - a badge of honor.

In their article, The Surprising Economics of a People Business, consultants Felix Barber and Rainer Streck argue that trained and contributing employees drive the overall performance of a company. As such different systems and strategies require different performance measures and management practices. These practices involve trust.

As such, trust in self, coworkers and leaders are essential if not mandatory for a group to excel.

Trust also has a dynamic impact on group problem solving. For example, group problem solving tends to break down in low trust environments and becomes creative and productive in high trust environments. That is why it is so important for leaders to purge fear-based, top down practices from the team dynamic.

The rub comes in the shift between Industrial and Information era technologies. The first exposes the employee to narrowly defined tasks and expectations. There are dues to pay because tenured employees or a chain of command dynamic rules advancement and contribution.

The Information age dynamic, on the other hand, embraces emotionally intelligent leadership dynamics, the ability to system think, creatively problem solve, measure results and nurture group process. This is on the people side. On the work side, accomplishing quality work, refining processes and operating lean makes payroll.

A talented new hire with a solid skill set is hard to retain if a pecking order or tenure process gets in the way of learning and contribution. The work and people balance becomes a high wire act because job satisfaction requires balance between getting good work done and the psychological satisfaction of people doing the work.

In the Information age, requiring a new employee to wait his turn for advancement without providing training and a clearly defined horizontal job development path damages morale and is counter-productive.

Therefore, some examples of high trust environments are:

– Leaders and team members trust one another and freely exchange information.

– Leaders and team members respectfully express differences of opinion and discuss disappointments without fear of repercussion.

– Leaders and team members freely explore ideas and share information.

– Leaders and team members experience high levels of give-and-take, mutual support, respect, and confidence in one another’s ability.

Training, mentoring and providing opportunity to serve are anchored in the organizational culture.

Some examples of low trust environments are:

– Leaders encourage unhealthy competition and scarcity among members.

– Leaders fear empowerment because of job security.

– Leaders and team members sabotage or shun people they do not like in order to minipulate them.

– Leaders and members falsify documents or lie to cover up mistakes.

– All parties to conflict justify the thought; the end justifies the means.

In a nutshell, trust is very expensive if not impossible to buy in today’s workforce and very difficult to salvage if spoiled. People know trust though actions, not words. What people say must line up with what they do for trust to be recognized. When words fail to match actions over time, organizations loose good people or cripple morale and lose dividends.

Dianne Crampton is a team and leadership consultant. She founded the TIGERS team model which tracks and measures 6 collaborative team values that form the hub of a team culture. Find out more.

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The movies make dream teams look so easy. The prize: steal the world’s largest collection of rare, misprinted stamps. The place: The Collector’s vault in his fortified mansion. The players: Sal, a wise-cracking box man; Natasha, the fem fatale wheel woman; and finally Phil and Will, twin brothers who wear identical black suits, thin ties, and cheap sunglasses. The plan: in and out in fifteen minutes. Phil and Will chloroform the guards and dogs, Sal cracks the safe, and Natasha keeps the car running.

Unfortunately, put this dream team into reality and things fall apart. Sal annoys Natasha who thinks she needs a bigger cut of the take. Meanwhile, Phil and Will cannot decide what tie and shirt combination to wear (black on white or white on white) and constantly show up late to meetings. Sometimes the best of the best don’t always play nice. Tensions flare, egos rub, and soon Sal and Natasha are at each other’s throats. Fortunately there are measures that can be taken to not only reduce tension between team members, but strengthen the team as a whole. While mostly corporate oriented, team building can work in workplaces where associates work in groups.

Team Building activities are available, not so your team can steal the world’s largest collection of rare, misprinted stamps, but rather, so they can achieve whatever task you have for them in a more concentrated, professional, and efficient manner. Imagine the whole team actually working together on the activity you have outlined for them to complete, without the tiffs and arguments that seem to be delayed progress now. The ability to have them work side by side and know that things will get done without someone calling HR to complain about how someone is treating them.

With team building training, your team will actually function as a team. Activities are centered around opening the lines of communication, building trust, and breaking through lines of geography or even lines of hierarchy. What better way to strengthen your team than to have them understand that they really can communicate with one another, understanding each other and then to know that they can rely on one another. When Sally asks John something, she needs to know that the answer he gives her is sincere and honest. On the other hand, when John asks Joe about how something functions and whether or not it can be fixed by Friday, he needs to know that he can depend on Joe to do whatever it is that Joe promises. With team building training this things are all possible.

Philly Hops (http://phillyhops.com) is a New York team building company. Art Gib is a freelance writer.

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I am sure that my tale is not an unusual one; I was once a shy thirty something stuck in the same job because I was lacking confidence in my skills and abilities. After years of working in an office, I was being bypassed by management who were in favour of the younger, more outgoing workers. Rather than blaming system of agency fuelled temporary office positions, I chose to accept the offer of joining a team building course. This is a story of how this simple decision changed my life.

I had been working full time since leaving college, mostly as a temp, moving from office to office before I had a chance to form proper working relationships. This way of working also affected my ability to gain new skills in the workplace. Rather than picking up where I left off when changing jobs, I started right back where I was and I didn’t have the courage to ask for extra training. After a few years I got a permanent position within a company, but after 6 years on temp scene, my skills left a lot to be desired and I was in the lowest position and under the managerial eye of fresh faced university graduates.

Due to the fact that I had been in the same type of employment for so long, it was assumed that my skills were at their peak. I felt like no one had the confidence in me, and became grateful with my lot, worked hard and kept quiet. What didn’t occur to me was that I wasn’t giving off any sign that I could do better or even wanted to do better in my job. Deep down I wanted a challenge, I wanted to be part of a team and most of all I wanted to prove to myself that I could be the high flyer I always wanted to be.

When my boss announced that places were being booked for a team building event, I was eager to put my name down, but at the same time terrified. What if I wasn’t capable of being a shining star, what if I had been fooling myself for all these years, and I wasn’t actually capable of becoming the person I thought I could be. Thankfully, something inside me decided that I had nothing to lose, although I had no idea what to expect, at the very least I would get to know the people I was working with better.

When the day for the team building arrived, I was full of confidence. There was something about being out of the office that was liberating. I chatted with most of the people on the way there, and found that I had so much in common with many of them. When it actually came to the team building crunch as it were, being in a team and facing challenges with the people I’d been chatting to seemed like a natural process. I was able to speak my mind, offer opinions and help tackle the tasks as an equal.

The people I was with saw that I was in fact a great problem solver and capable of leading a team. I’d not had an opportunity to show this quality within myself within the workplace, but it was something that came naturally. Having the opportunity to be recognised for who I am, and what I am capable of led to a change in my working life. The management that I felt so berated by were in fact my saviours, offering me a more senior position within the company as part of the human resource team. I am now an outgoing and confident member of the company, and able to guide new recruits, no matter what age or skill through our system as part of my own team building strategy!

Dom Donaldson is a human resources expert.
Find out more about Team Building and the packages on offer today from Accolade Corporate Events.

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Praise and rewards can do wonders to bolster an employee’s self-confidence and morale. No one can deny the effect praise and recognition can have on people. Even with your family at home, there are many ways you can reward people for a job well done.

When you praise someone, you let them know you’re aware of their hard work. You acknowledge they’ve put forth a great effort to accomplish something and you’re celebrating with them for their accomplishment.

* Be sincere in your praise. Don’t praise a worker merely to make them feel better. This is even more important to remember with family members. If your praise is insincere, you may be considered manipulative, and you don’t want to give that impression.

* Give praise when it’s due. You cannot follow the old adage, “Better late than never,” when it comes to praising someone. Express your praise as quickly as you can when you see that someone has done something praiseworthy.

* Be specific about your praise. Sure, you can tell someone they did a great job, but what was so great about it? “Your research paper was direct, to the point, and full of facts,” sounds much better than telling them they had a nice paper.

* Praise them in front of others. Giving someone a pat on the back in private may make a person feel good for a few minutes. Recognizing their contribution or success during a staff meeting will extend that good feeling into days, if not weeks.

There’s a double benefit to praising people in front of others: public praise may also encourage others to work harder as well.

As with genuinely praising an employee or family member when they’ve done well, there are other ways to reward them without having to spend money.

Here are some other ways you can reward people for a job well done:

1. Reduce their supervision. Some people are happier and do much better work when they’re allowed to work on their own. Giving an employee more freedom can be an excellent reward.

* By giving your employees less supervision, you’re letting them know they’re trusted and you have confidence in their abilities.

* If you truly trust your employee to do their work without supervision, allow them the flexibility to work from home on occasion. Of course, whether or not you can allow your employees to work at home will depend on the work they do.

2. Give your team members who go above and beyond the call of duty a new title. Job titles don’t always have to mean more money. Sometimes receiving a title means more than getting a few more dollars in their paycheck. It shows that you’re pleased with their work.

3. Publicly recognize people that do their job well. At your next staff meeting, present that person with a certificate. Create a bulletin board in the staff lounge that has photographs of honored employees to continue to recognize them for their good work.

4. Encourage your team by giving them discount coupons to local businesses in your area. This could be a free movie and popcorn at the movie theater, reduced entrance at a family park, or a coupon for a free turkey around the holidays.

When employees feel like they matter, they’re much more willing to give their all for a company.

Use some of these ways to reward people for a job well done. Not only will your team enjoy their job and the workplace much more, but you’ll find they’re more productive as well. Recognize and reward a job well done and your company will ultimately reap the benefits.

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Is it possible that our behaviors are a tip off that conflict is present in our organization, undercover conflict, what I call “double secret” conflict? It’s double secret because everyone goes around smiling at each other, even actually liking one another, playing on the softball team together - while at the same time they’re just waiting for the right moment to submarine your plans, and sabotage your strategies.

I have found it to be true, I bet you have too, that no matter what I say and no matter how I say I feel about a coworker, supervisor, or boss - it’s what I end up doing that proves what I actually believe.

We think we can tell from someone’s non-verbal communications when they are conflicted, upset, etc. We might sense it in their posture of aggression, their hostile gestures, their unwillingness to make eye contact, or maybe the silent treatment when we’re around.

We think we’re pretty good at figuring out who’s on the team and who is ready to drop the big one. Too bad, another myth busted. The really difficult people are those that smile and say how are you - then slip the knife in when you’re not looking.

For instance one of your coworkers says that they want to be cooperative, they want to share in the information gathering, they want to be part of the team willingly pitching in to help in the accumulation of information around which important plans for the businesses future are being made.

But in reality they withhold critical information until you come begging for it, they incorporate the famous “if they don’t ask, I won’t tell” policy. Until, that is, they can demonstrate their superiority by questioning the final decision in light of what they know nobody else knows. It doesn’t matter to them that the organization has wasted time, energy, and money coming to an erroneous conclusion because of the missing information.

Or they can smile and go along with the planning process, never telling anyone this key information. The decisions are flawed and the organization loses money as a result. Decisions made without all relevant input can be devastatingly costly. In addition the cost of decisions not made or directions not taken can never be accurately calculated.

We pay dearly when members of our teams put their desire for power, their interest in getting over on the company or the boss ahead of doing what’s right.

When the boss thinks they have a saboteur in their midst, they often try to appease them rather than fire them, discipline them, or even have a constructive conflict resolution intended discussion with them. Our organizations are full of people we can not fire , and almost no one has a preemptive workplace conflict resolution strategy designed to seek out conflicts when they are still blips just barely visible on the screen.

The manipulators among us will try to get the boss to take their side in the matter. Or maybe they will report their findings to their supervisor in a way to suggest that only they were capable of ferreting out this information and bring it to them. Unfortunately the boss, who always sees through the ploy, will go along with it just to keep things moving forward.

Every organization is made up of steps, the “critical path” - where something must be done by someone else in order for you to do your job and you must do your job in order for the next person to do theirs. Manipulators understand this all too well - so they work their game on their fellow employees, knowing that their power is in the ability to blockade the process. Their coworkers, again always knowing what’s happening - will go along so the process can move along.

How much time do you think is consumed needlessly with these maneuvers? How much money, actual dollars off the bottom line and out the door is this “double secret” conflict costing your organization? Is there anything you can do about it?

The answer, it depends. It depends on whether or not the person is sacred (can not be dealt with in any productive way) because of their position in the business or the family. If this is true your choices are limited to those with the power in the organization are willing to exert. Often the business collapse because of situations like this.

On the other hand if they are, as is usually the case, good people who want to do better - but have behavioral issues or other issues that conspire to put them in the role of problem instigator, there is hope.

And that hope comes from the organization’s leaders willingness to put in place a conflict prevention strategy around the principle that we are all different and that the key to our long term success is our willingness to work hard at managing those differences whenever they exist .

Individuals who think strategically, plan comprehensively, and execute flawlessly will certainly outpace those who simply set goals and hope for the best. If you want to be even more successful in the future than you are today, visit
workplace conflict resolution to learn how to focus more clearly on what’s important to your business.

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The communication between a boss and his or her employees is of great importance to maintain a good atmosphere on the job. However, it seems that many employees are unsatisfied with their direct leading manager or boss. Usually one of the reasons is a lack of good communication between both parties.

One thing a boss should do to create clarity on his department is providing his employees with the information he knows. Off course, some information is nott meant for each employee but regular information should not be kept from the employees ears. But he should also let them know what he does not know. As an example: We are moving to a new building during in the spring, but I do not know how much space we will get. This boss will work on clarity in his department.

The Truth and Nothing But the Truth

The boss should never promise things which he cannot realize or that are still uncertain. This is to maintain and build on the trust between bosses and his employees. If a boss keeps telling you that you can get a promotion and you give that little bit of extra every day for a few months and then you notice you are not getting that promotion, the work relationship between the boss and the employee will grow bad.

It is very important for a boss to listen what his employees have to say. Whether it is positive or negative, a boss should hear out his employees when they want to discuss something. The boss might not always be able to meet the wishes of the employee but he can give the subject some thought.

After thinking about the matter he should talk with the employee, and then explain his vision, the reason why things are how they are, and the company policy regarding the first conversation. And in many cases the employees come up with good information or options that might help the productivity of the department. A good boss will listen to his employees no matter what they have to say.

Make Your Employees Feel Valued

Employees will know what is expected from them if there is a good communication between the boss and his employees. On their turn, the employees should be able to talk to their boss about things that bother them, how they think they can improve the work circumstances etc.

Listening to your employees, and I mean really listening and giving consideration to what they say, thinking about what they said and then explain what you want to explain in a second conversation if needed, will give the employee the feeling that his opinion counts to you and that you at least have bothered to spend some time to think about an issue. The employees will feel more valued within the department and will show more dedication and teamwork. And these are some of the ingredients for a good spirit on your department.

Good communication between the boss and his employees will enhance the atmosphere in the department and will motivate the employees to work hard and will give the employees satisfaction.

David George Brooke, aka “The Brooker”, has been a coach, motivator, and speaker for over 25 years. He teaches the ABC’s of Gratitude, and how to live your life with an “Attitude of Gratitude”. Please visit: http://www.thebrooker.com

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You’ve been working in the same office for two years and yet you still have no idea of the name is of the guy in accounts or the lady on reception. Sound familiar? It’s amazing how we can work with so many people on a daily basis and still know so little about them. Head down and working hard, we can often forget that our colleagues have another life outside of work. Team building activities are an excellent way to overcome this and encourage employees to bond. By strengthening relationships out of work, relationships within the workplace will also improve and as a result, are more likely to generate a more productive, enjoyable working environment.

Before you organise your team building event, you will need to think about the specific objectives you want to achieve from the whole experience. These are likely to depend on the nature of your business however may include increasing communication, enhancing leadership skills, breaking down barriers between colleagues, encouraging creative thinking and time management and even boosting morale within the workplace.

The nature of the events themselves will vary depending on what you are after however they should be based in comfortable and enjoyable environments and never set out to make people feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. The whole idea is to create positive thinking and lift people’s spirits. Team building should encourage supportive encouragement between team members and promote healthy competition.

One of the most popular forms of team building is to relish in the great outdoors. Given that many of us work inside, often behind a computer screen or in a compact office, having the chance to enjoy some time out in the fresh air is a great way to motivate, invigorate and build team spirit. Any activity that encourages healthy living is beneficial, and supporting employees to get up from their desks and get active is a great way to help blow away a few of works stresses, even if it’s just for a few hours.

Some excellent options for outdoor team building include clay shooting, archery, assault courses, quad biking or 4×4 driving. It’s important to think of an activity that will appeal to all team members, of both genders and all ages. Choosing an activity that will isolate team members simply contradicts the whole point of the exercise.

Perhaps you budget doesn’t quite allow for taking the entire team out on an adventure activity; however that doesn’t mean you can’t still get involved. There are many different challenging team building games that you can take part in, even from your own office. Book the board room, order some drinks and nibbles and get your team involved in some lateral thinking games.

This will help to promote determination, team work, creativity and problem solving in a relaxed and fun environment. Teams can be split up throughout the day to encourage sociability and could include quizzes and game-shows based on famous TV programmes such as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire or Family Fortunes for example.

A great idea for encouraging team work and creativity is to organise an event similar to The Apprentice, where you spilt the team in to a number of small groups and give them all a task to complete. You may give them a budget and a theoretical event to organise and leave them to work together to see who come up with the best ideas.

Team building is an excellent way to create positivity in the workplace, improve productivity and generally boost company morale, whatever your budget, premise size or nature of your business.

Dominic Donaldson is an expert in Business Communications
Find out more about Team Building and the benefits it can bring to your business.

Team building exercises serve to bring together a working community, improve relations and generally facilitate a happier office environment once everyone is back at work. The types of activities chosen for these corporate bonding events vary greatly, and often seem to reflect a psychological need for battle and challenge between co-workers. Personally, I would have bet my last fiver that creating tensions between workers would stir up any underlying tensions, and maybe end in a non-planned boxing event at one of these team building retreats.

It seems that this is definitely not the case. These days are well organised, and are structured to encourage participation and the formation of bonds based on simple psychological functioning of certain areas of the brain. For those that are holding inter-office grudges, it actually functions well as a way of releasing tensions if the source of your aggravation is on another team, or by negating the stress if you are forced to work together.

The way these psychological systems work are not dissimilar to the instinctive behaviour witnessed during times of social stress, such as conflict. The part of the brain responsible for such emotional responses is called the amygdale and it rests in the temporal lobe of the brain forming part of the limbic system. It’s primary role is in the response to fear and aggression. The activity in this area of the brain is greatly increased during times of threat and interestingly during bonding attempts.

Studies of this part of the brain have yielded results that show the amygdala is activated when it comes to a sense of belonging, forming a team and having a goal, such as in the activity of team building events. This can be equated to the same processes involved during bullying. When a group gather in a common cause to inflict negativity on a victim, there is a greater chance that a person will choose to join the side of the majority due to the chemical activity in the brain and the chemical rewards that come from such a response. Some people are obviously not wired in this way, and their response system delivers chemical rewards based on altruistic motives.

These psychological responses can be exercised safely in the controlled and friendly environment of a team building day out, and research shows that these activities could be beneficial for many industries where workers do not have an opportunity to express themselves with each other out of work hours. Many offices and factories often have groups of people that will meet socially, but the interaction from these meetings are limited. It is quite likely that the groups that form will retain their dynamic keep themselves separate from other groups that have formed between workers.

This can be likened to the formation of gangs; and although office workers don’t tend to have a tattoo to show their allegiance to a group of workmates, divisions are clear between groups. By enrolling all of the members of staff on a team building corporate day out, there is a forced interaction that brings about positive results, and can add to the dynamics back at the workplace. By encouraging interaction between already established groups, new workers and employees at various levels of management, there is a chance for new networks and friendships to form.

For some this will show as a emerging with a more positive attitude, for others, the ability to demonstrate leadership skills. This is not only a chance for workers to have fun, it is a social event that can influence the opinions within an office environment based on a wider view of what those brain chemicals display as personality!

Dominic Donaldson is an expert in the team building industry.
Find out more about team building and choose from a wide variety of activities to suit a corporate day out at Accolade Corporate Events.