Can team-building activities increase productivity in a recession? When the economy slows, company leaders have to be cautious with every expense. They often put off hiring new employees until more certainty develops. When we do this, though, team members end up...
Effective Team Building Event Ideas Will Tear Down Communication Silos
As every company grows, unintended "silos" will be created. This starts when an entrepreneur hires his or her first employee. Then, the "Silo Effect" gets even more intense when a growing company adds departments or additional offices. Basically, a "communication...
Team Building or Teambuilding
So is the correct spelling of a group development activity "teambuilding" or "team building"? First of All, Is Teambuilding a Word?" Is "Teambuilding" a real word? According to all current dictionaries, the answer is no. When you cram the two words Team Building...
Three Stereotype Shattering Strategies to Unite a Diverse Team
Gone are the days when it’s normal to see offices mostly filled with people from the same town, age group, and university. Organizations are full of much more diverse teams. Now, it’s normal for an office to have a 50-year-old mid-level employee supervised by a fresh...
A Few Team Building Ideas that Cost Nothing (Or Very Little)
Thousands of people come to our website every day looking for new team building ideas. In fact, the term team building has a number of different definitions. This term means a lot of different things to various people. Companies often have our instructors help them...
What Is Team Building?
So what exactly is team building, anyway? The term "team-building" is thrown around quite often describing any type of activity that is likely to build some type of camaraderie or team environment. However, the specific activities and games that make up a good event...