Imagine a typical corporate event. A medium sized room is packed with a couple of hundred of a company's employees. All of these people have similar expressions on their faces as they listen to a speaker up at the front drone on about bottom lines and human resource goals, and think about the free meal at the end of the next presentation or the ten minute breaks which will serve to portion the day into more manageable chunks.
This is probably a scenario with which any human resource expert is more than familiar. Although the goals of corporate events are usually quite admirable and even exciting to the planners, often the day does not play out as well as anticipated in practical terms to the employees and managers in attendance. One solution which many companies have begun to incorporate is adding interactive activities into events, allowing information to be taken in peripherally while achieving the secondary purpose of team building.
Two way interactive technology of the same kind that can be found in restaurants, sports bars, and pubs across North America is now available in ?portable? setups for use in any conference or event setting. This technology allows small groups to participate in, for example, trivia style games or mock sports events which are ideal for building a sense of teamwork among any group of individuals. Imagine the participants at a corporate event, instead of trying to keep up with (and stay awake for) the facts being highlighted on a far-off power point screen, working together with the people around them to make the right call on a policy issue, or guess the new features of the latest product line.
If you've ever participated in a team challenge event, you know that it is one of the quickest and most successful ways to erase the barriers between individuals within a group and allow them to function together as a unit. The ability to challenge other groups and interact as a team has proven to be a successful building block towards unity outside of the event for co-workers who formerly saw themselves only as individuals. Incorporate interactive technology into your corporate event and watch as your employees come awake to forge cohesive, cooperative bonds that will allow them to function more efficiently in the workplace.
When organising corporate team building events, the main four aspects to be considered are: 1. Knowledge 2. Enjoyment 3. Active involvement 4. Visual estimulation By intelligently combining the above elements, the organisers of these activities ensure the success of the events. Team building activities can help to improve or develop especific qualities within the members of a company, such as: leadership skills, promote creativity, enhance team and individual performance, trust and respect amongst colleagues, strengthen communication, promote delegation, develop an understanding of other members' skills, amongst others.
Ideas for Team Building events:
- Building a structure such as a raft to float across a lake. By doing this, the team can strengthen communication channels, learn about leadership and delegation skills and understanding the roles and skills of other members.
- Building structures such as: bridges, catapults and siege ladders amongst others. The group can benefit from learning about strategic thinking, problem solving, creativity and communication.
- A mix of mental and physical tasks -for all type of people- that includes high and low ropes, a lake crossing without a boat and a zip wire across the fields where the activity is happening. These activities are designed to drive trust and respect amongst colleagues, promote creativity, develop leadership skills and enhance team and individual performance.
- Puzzles, navigation methods, communication techniques and initiative challenges in specific areas. Time management is a key tool to success as well as group work and cooperation.
- Learning about different methods of communicating and realising the importance of listening and watching which are skills often missing in the workplace.
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