Art Gib asked:
Many Los Angeles Companies today seem to be enamored with team building activities, games or tasks designed with the idea that throwing a mismatched group of employees into a situation outside of the normal workplace environment will somehow result in improving their ability to work. A lot of employees moan and grouch about the worthless waste of time that is Los Angeles team building, but despite skeptics and bad attitudes among some staff, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that Los Angeles team building activities do improve productivity and have been a rewarding experience for all sorts of companies.
Whether you’re working in the high-paced bustle of downtown LA or a small office in a suburb you need to be comfortable with your team. Careless comments and mean spirited office banter can lead to mistrust and awkwardness amongst colleagues, which can have a huge impact on the way they work together and collaborate on projects.
Smart employers recognize this and adopt simple Los Angeles team building exercises and events to ensure that co-workers have the not only the skills but the trust and comradery needed to function well in a group dynamic. There are several important factors to note when trying to bring a team closer together. In today’s companies of spread out offices and cubicles you often only bond with the people sitting next to you or in your specific department, leading to the common rifts between accountants and salespersons or customer services and middle management. In team building activities all these people are brought together in an event that requires a balance of skills and teamwork to improve their ability to collaborate.
Establishing joint goals is key to the success of any corporate Los Angeles team building event. It’s important that the team-leader explain to his or her colleagues the purposes of the event so that everyone involved has an understanding of why they are there, and to give a sense of value and importance to the activity, and to stifle complaints and keep people happy. Assigning roles to team-members is, of course, commonplace in an office and by using the same techniques in a team building exercise people can begin to take charge of their roles and improve their quick decision-making and learn responsibility in a non-work environment.
Any good team is a communicative team, colleagues should have the ability to speak-up if something is preventing them from reaching a sales target or goal, it has been well researched and shown that corporate teams work best when they are not afraid to take up an issue and communicate openly with their colleagues or management. Corporate events promote this ability to express needs and wants within the work environment.
Lastly and most crucially for the success of a Los Angeles team building activity, everyone should have fun; a team building event can bring team-members together in a competitive task while also giving the boss a run for his money.