Team building exercises can be useful for all kinds of teams, and can be used to break the ice for a new team, or to strengthen an existing team, and there are team building exercises suitable fir all different sizes of team.

Team building days can often be a good way of ‘ironing out’ specific problems within a team, that may not be resolved in the normal working environment.

There can be quite a stigma surrounding team building, as often the wrong activities have been chosen for the people involved or people have not had the right attitude to the team building and what they will get from it. However, if you put a little thought into the activity and get staff fully on board-so they are feeling positive about the activity beforehand- a team building day can really make a business!

So what activities are available?

Well there’s everything, from raft building to cook-offs, quad biking to crafts, and it really depends on who is attending and what you want the outcome to be. For example, if the aim of the session is to improve relationships in the team then something uncompetitive that gets everyone laughing, such as karaoke or building something. Or if the aim is to encourage the team to be more dynamic and brave in their business decisions then something like go karting or paintballing would be good, as it can push people to take risks and is more related to adrenalin.

To encouraging your staff to work more harmoniously together and perhaps take on tasks outside of their role to help others, games and challenges where they have to work together can be really helpful, as skills that people often don’t realise they, or others have, become apparent, which is often remembered when back in the work place.

Whatever you choose, just bear in mind a) whose attending and b) what you aim to achieve from the day. And most of all- enjoy it!

To make your team building even more exciting it’s nice to hand out trophies, whether for winners, losers or amusing titles. This also gives people a momento from the day. For online trophy cups and a wide range of other awards and trophies head to http://www.awardsandtrophies.com.

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