Team Building - GTE Group

Geography is one factor, but as email, voicemail and teleconferencing have reduced our need for face-face meeting, technology means that people in the same building may never physically meet. This makes it even more important for companies to help foster good working relationships among staff. Ways teambuilding can help include:

	Being in an unfamiliar environment forces everyone to communicate together, so office hierarchy is forgotten and staff from different departments/locations get to know each other.
	The shared experience is taken back to the office, boost morale.
	Staff can leave behind everyday concerns and look on work with a fresh approach on return
	Staff exercise lateral thinking, use their imaginations and think outside the box which are often underused in the workspace
	Staff can see that a team's differences are its strength and that goals can be achieved by working together
	Staff get a better understanding about what drives and motivates their colleagues.
	Employers can identify staff that thrive from healthy competition and are likely to benefit from leadership development and management training
	Employers can see how individuals' minds work and how they interact, delegate, negotiate and approach challenges
	Employers can see the dynamics of a team: who are the leaders, the achievers, the planners, the details people etc
	Employers can integrate new staff into existing teams or sort out leadership issues.