What are team building activities?
What is team building? Many people don’t completely understand the concept. In fact, there are confussions even in the correct writting. Teambuilding or team building? It means “working by teams”, but what it does really mean? It is a technique which the goal is working in team trough designed activities for that. It is necessary the implication of all the partners, so that we can work in group cohesion. We should note that each person is different, so it is added different points of view that find in common achieve the goal to finish with success team building activities.
What is the result? First of all, it promotes workteam, it motivates all participants, and increases self-esteem. Not only that, because at the same time we spend a good leisure time, we encourage the internal communication and propitiate a good work environment. Moreover, we will increase confidence and compromise between the participants in a completely different environment from the labour one.
Benefits of team building
Nowadays, we spend some days in team building activities, because it has been proved that it works and improves workers’productivity, and helps to get a synergy in business and individual workers’ objectives.
So, team building has experienced a significant growth over the years. There are new trends every year, news activities are designed to improve workteam. But, watch out! Because sometimes team building concept is used to confused with the incentive one.
The difference is that the team in team building has a common objective, which is the success in the activity. An incentive could be a tasting, for example, wherein it is not necessary work in team to get an end. Team building has a high workteam component. We can find indoor or outdoor activities. The key is to take advantage all the possible chances to perform a good team building.
Which trends can we find?
For a long time, performing team building activities related with relaxation and mindfulness is in the public eye. What does it consist? It is a full concentration, insulation and mental relaxation. Ironically, mindfulness is centuries of seniority, but it’s now when there is a “boom” in the corporate sector. Increasingly, companies choose this type of technique to mix with team building activities.
Rural tourism become more popular, because according to a 2015 study of The Rural Tourism Observatory, the 25,3% the entrepeneurs of this type of accommodation have bet on the MICE segment. We already find team building activities and business events, both of them incorporated to this type of tourism. Why? Because of the benefits that the participants can get of this enviroment.
Relaxation is essential, and nowadays there are a lot of companies which are searching for move away from stress routine and work. That is what mindfulness is a trend in this way, in addition to outdoor team building activities and contact with nature.
In that way, we are agree that contact with fresh air clean us from high laboral voltages. Hiking activities, or more adventure routes like “Survivors“, are other options we have for those who search a different team building activity, without lose cohesion, union, and team ties.
Another trend on team building activities is related to CSR. Because, help CSR of your company is the best way to encourage workteam. Compromise, responsability, assertive communication, proactive spirit, and all values that represent a team. These are the main ingredients to achieve a complete effectiveness of a team building.
And if you wanna know how to perform a team building with success, you can discover here ten keys to make it happen.
And of course, one of the trends more at the forefront is the use of the technology. All developed in a playful enviroment. Now tech is in the development of any grupal activity, as we could verify in the last post “technology 2.0“. During these last months we have been partaken of the Apple Keynote, wherein an audiovisual production was the main axis, together with the use of drones on any convention. This technology irruption mixes leisure with laboral activity. And it is a succesful guarantee. Not only involve participants, but gaves a global quality. From Es.cultura Events, we are aware that the 21st century is marked by technology. Read for instance our post on augmented reality in events. That’s why we like adaptting and performing programs where the interactivity is the main character. In our case, we offer the option to customize our activities and events with technological items. For example, what do you think about gymkhanas with Ipads? Instead of the conventional map, we will have the route on the Ipad, in addition of the steps and clues to perform with success each proof. We mix the best of tradition with technology, with the result of a really funny and different activity.
In fact, we can find a lot of variety in activities that encourage workteam. Ideally, we have to rebrand our business, especially because we are in the 21st century, technological century. Because some techonological elements are incorporated to team building activities. Increasingly.
Updating, rebranded, meet our clients…They are essential elements if we want to perform a good team building. In Es.cultura Events we can confirm, with 20 years of experience, that team building activities work and the function is to improve the enviroment between participants and encourage workteam. Our variety is very extensive, as we have an open mind with new ideas, we are continually rebranded. In Es.cultura Events you will find outdoor and indoor activities. Historical gymkhanas, filming day, team building related with cooking, like Master Chef, or Multiactivity. These are some of our options. In Es.cultura Events we consider all the trends, so inside of our catalogue you will find activities with dances, like flashmob or lipdub.
As we talk before, to encourage a team CSR is more important that we think. From Es.cultura Events we also work with team building activities which are involved in this topic. Values cooking or Mission Kilo are good examples how we work by teams, having fun, spending a good time, at the same time we encourage our CSR company.
With team building activities work team are performed. Success is guaranteed. And Es.cultura Events can help you to achieve it, while we spend a good time with the best company. Do you dare to try it? Check some of the team building activities we propose below:
