How We Organized An Awesome Team Building?

In this blog post, we’ll share our team building experiences and insights we’ve gained along the way to help you easily plan and organize your next event. We’ve seen each other regularly on Google Meet for coffee, yoga, numerous knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, product demos, daily stand-ups, and even smaller gatherings for the occasional drink, but as much as we enjoy them, these kinds of the interactions lacked some depth.

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WHEN – Time and date

Choosing the date, time and duration of team is seemingly quite easy, but there are a few things to consider.

WHERE – The location of the event

The best place for your team building is a space that is in line with your goals. A place that inspires, boosts morale and offers many opportunities for people to bond and enjoy fun social activities.

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Set clear goals

While a corporate team building event can be fun for everyone involved, it’s important to remember that they ultimately have to meet their goals to make the investment worthwhile. Only after you have established the basic guidelines of what you want to achieve can you begin to think about the activities and challenges that would best suit your focus.

Make a budget

Once you know what your priorities are for team building activities, it’s time to set a budget to make it all happen. Before you get down to the organizational details, it’s important to think about a budget, as it will serve as a guide to what you can afford and how large your team building event can be.

What are team building activities? 

Team building is an activity or process designed to help build connections between team members, create lasting bonds, and enable better teamwork and workflow. Team building activities can include running team games and activities, holding group discussions, organizing field trips or simply doing things together as a team.

Main purpose of a team building activity?

  • The main purpose of any team building activity is to improve some aspect of how the team works together while bringing everyone together for a shared experience.
  • This can include working on communication, collaboration, alignment, team values, motivation and anything else that can enable the group to work together more effectively. It can also involve resolving conflicts, sharing skills, or simply uniting your group in a shared experience.
  • Generally speaking, any team building effort should be designed to help bring your team together or find ways to first define and then move toward your common goals as a group. The best team building activities provide a space to build connections in a way that spills over into everyday work and creates lasting bonds.

Main types of team building activities

  • Team building activities are games and exercises that help a group work together towards a common goal, constructively discuss important issues, share fun experiences or find better ways to work together.
  • These activities can take the form of quick and fun games that you use in a regular meeting, or they can be part of a larger team development process or workshop. Being purposeful and knowing the goal of your session means you can choose your activity accordingly.

Team will recognize your activities

Starting the team process can be difficult, especially if you’re working with a new team that doesn’t know each other well yet. The activities in this section are aimed at helping teams get to know each other better and begin to develop bonds and trust as a team.

Conclusion

In an increasingly stressful environment of deadlines and meetings, it’s worth remembering the value of joy, play and simply having fun as a team.