Thursday, March 12, 2020

Why Corporate Team Building Training is Important


While in school I was selected in our school team. We used to have inter school matches, then at the city level, taluka and state levels too. Initially I convinced myself that I am a fast bowler and I need to excel in my department and contribute to my team. But my captain seemed to have some other perception about my skills. 



In every match he would keep changing my fielding positions and also would ask me to bowl haphazardly from either directions of the ground. Initially his decisions and actions were highly disturbing. I started developing negative thoughts about the team leadership until one day I confronted my captain. We spoke for more than 35 minutes and lo, that was the turning point of my life. The captain put me through several rough tests just to groom that un-groomed skills within me that went on to the making of an all rounder for the team. Eventually after 2 years in the school team, I was looked upon as an all rounder player.

So, yeah, I think I'll give up the cricketing journey. Now we'll be talking about what is the actual meaning of building a team and then why especially building teams in the corporate world is so important. Remember, we are wired to move around in groups or herds. We feel safe and comfortable about anything when there is mass appeal. And building a team is just like having another small family.

Team Building Training is just a re-affirmation that if we learn and practice the fundamentals of togetherness, the whole will always me more than the sum of its parts. The output, the strength, the confidence, the comfort that each member of the team will experience will be much more than what they would experience at an individual level.

A good leader is the one who can seemingly see the unseen. Just like what happened to me at school. The captain could see the possibility of a fast bowler transforming into an all rounder. Thus a good corporate team leader is the one who brings out the best in you. Creating a culture of team building develops psychological safety, a parameter that ranked no1 in a list of 10 in the corporate team building survey of 2019.

Team building showers immense benefits to businesses. However it can never be a one time event. Team building culture should be an ever evolving, continuous initiative that organizations should take to see the magic of a productive and a happy workplace.

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