What is Team Building?

The background to Team Building

Sometimes company teams do not work with the desired level of efficacy or achieve the expected results: things have not been defined or they do not know their goals, or know what is expected of them, there are conflicts between people, have little experience or lack capacity and therefore the objectives, results, and performance are not met or are low.

These situations result in a low productivity inside the organization, conflicts that lead to poor interpersonal relationships, loss of motivation and dissatisfaction among people. From both the leader and the various team members.

What is a high-performance team?

A high-performance team is a team that achieved a high level of results with high satisfaction and motivation of its members. Having integrated teams that are motivated and productive towards a common goal (a high-performance team) is one of the main priorities for companies. Above all, at this time, when the competition is so tough.

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How to build a high-performance team?

Building a high-performance team is no easy task. Leaders know. Input is a very important and clear policy of selection and recruitment. We must attract the most competent individuals for each position and get them to be motivated by the project. And not only do you have to choose the best candidate for each position but also have to fit together. On the other hand, once we have the people, we have to deal with hundreds of issues that arise in a changing world. It is very important that the front of the team has a great leader. A leader with the ability to work, with vision, with great human quality and empathy with the other team members. To create a high-performance team a leader must:

1. Mark objectives.
2. Define a system of measuring the level of achievement of objectives.
3. Define communication systems between team members.
4. Define procedures for team members to make decisions and solve problems.
5. Develop systems of personnel management (recruitment, training, motivation, etc.). It is difficult to get a high-performance team, but we get it, but this still poses a tougher challenge: to try to maintain over time.

What is Team Building?

Many of us have heard of it, but not everyone knows what a Team Building is. Team Building is an activity or service that companies have hired for more than two decades, but in recent years it’s had a great success.

Definition of Team Building

We understand that Team Building is all those activities that are undertaken by companies or other organizations to improve the chemistry of their teams(a football team also needs to enhance team building team spirit and cooperation among players). Normally, with a participatory activity designed to measure customer needs in a given space and place, which usually is celebrated as an event. These events tend to take place in remote areas of everyday life, in a different environment, to allow the worker free of tensions and thus interact in a relaxed way with their peers.

Participatory or Team Building Events

Team Building Events can also be called participatory events because, unlike other events, such as a show, in these events, you are “invited” to work together and overcome one or several tests. Evidence, to overcome them will require the full involvement of all team members. In Team Building events in which the protagonists of the event are the participants and at the end of the event, once the tests and challenges are achieved, they applaud themselves.

The challenges, adventure, and certain experiences can create a team (Team Building)
Think for a moment of an acquaintance of yours. Someone whom you know but that you don’t consider to be your friend. Now, imagine for a moment that you decide to take a joint trip. A simple trip of 100 km. together in the same vehicle. Now answer: after spending an hour together, to reach the destination do you think that friendship with this person will be improved? Do you know him a little better? If you are a normal person, the answer is: Yes. Now we know more, we have had time to talk, we know each other better, and we feel closer to each other.

Now imagine that you had a mishap during this trip, you have a breakdown and to the situation, you have to work together to change a flat tire and thanks to the ideas of one and the other, at the end you got it and you can resume the march and successfully reach your destination.

Do you think the fact of having overcome a challenge from that day will make you feel more united? The answer is yes. Now imagine that once you have overcome the problem of puncture, after a while, the vehicle is stopped in the middle of the road, and you discover that there is a problem, well, between the two you can overcome it.

1st Conclusion:

“When you take a group of people, and you challenge them, once they get over it they will become people together.”

Imagine now another situation, it has been done at night, and you are lost, you can’t find the hotel, you’ve been several hours wandering around and there is no gasoline, you suspect that at any time the car you can leave lying there in the middle of nowhere and you are going to have to spend the night in the car, because at that hour, no one you could ask for help is going to come. You pass some fear, you are in a very uncomfortable situation, but decide to keep looking, and finally, after much effort, you successfully reach the destination. Together you pass through a situation of uncertain output, an adventure and, ultimately, achieve success. Can you even imagine how you will feel the next week when you meet and remember the story and adventure experienced by both of you? Can you visualize that you will feel much more united than before? I do because I have lived it many times.

2nd Conclusion:

“When two or more people live an adventure out of the ordinary that involves some tension, fear, uncertainty (adventure) and manage to overcome this adventure successfully thanks to teamwork, this leads to creating a degree of proximity between them and a feeling like a team.

Imagine now that you get together with a group of people and decide to live the experience of a balloon ride. You get to the airfield with some emotion, fear, and desire. None of you has ever flown in a balloon. So, you go up to the basket, and slowly, the balloon is taking height and in a smooth manner it feels like the floor is getting smaller and wider. Suddenly you find yourself at 1,500 feet, the scenery is fantastic, they are all excited … skip the first laughter, shouting, exclamation, reflections … After 45 minutes flying over a beautiful place, comes the adventure of landing. The balloon is not dirigible, the pilot only controls the height but not to where it goes, where will you will go to stop? Finally, you land. It has been an exciting day… Can you imagine, how you will greet any of the people who shared the experience with you when you come across them a few days, weeks or months later?

3rd Conclusion:

Sharing a different and exciting experience with someone gives you a sense of fellowship and that makes you feel closer to them. You have lived a fantastic thing in common and therefore there is a greater degree of complicity between the two of you.