Teamwork makes the dream work. This saying has never rung truer in both business and social lives, and in order to bring the best of both worlds out of your employees, going on an adventure team building trip together is the way forward. Whilst team building has a somewhat negative reputation amongst companies, it is actually one of the most important investments to make on your employees. If you’re looking to improve communication and collaboration, nurture creativity and just build all-around stronger bonds in your workplace, then adventure experiences are paramount! If you still need further convincing, here are our top 5 reasons why you should book an adventure activity for your team building retreat in the UK!
1. Nurtures learning and creativity
Employees that are part of a successful team are more likely to learn from one another and build on one another's strengths. When opposed to working on a project alone, collaboration offers for different views and ideas. It mixes together personal experiences with fresh, inventive concepts, making work more enjoyable and efficient. Choosing team building exercises like adventure activities that require problem solving and delegation to complete tasks, creativity is catalysed as they try to figure out new ways to approach the problem, and learn on the job to adapt to different situations.
2. Build trust
When it comes to forming productive teams, trust is crucial. Teams must be able to trust one another in order to operate together, and that they can rely on one another in an emergency. Furthermore, as teams develop trust, they offer each other the freedom and liberty to complete tasks and make their own judgments. People feel comfortable when they are trusted. They open up when they feel secure, and communicate their talents and flaws to their teammates. They are more proactive with their ideas, taking chances, listening to one another, and finally reaching an agreement. As a consequence, there is greater cooperation and communication, and team members are less reluctant to share their weaknesses.
3. Improve communication and collaboration
Taking employees on an adventure trip for team building offers a plethora of activities to build communication and collaboration skills. There is a strong link between happiness and learning, and there’s no better way to instigate this than overcoming challenges together as a team. When choosing an adventure retreat, the experiences involved require excellent communication between team members to overcome – the team will convers with those they usually wouldn’t, learning to collaborate with everyone, and thus building stronger bonds across the entire spectrum of the workplace as a result.
4. Increase business productivity
As with business goals and objectives, during an adventure team building retreat, tasks are shared across the teams. This implies that if one team member has less work, they can assist another team member in doing their job. This is a main practice in adventure experiences, and as a result, can translate into the workplace – the project may be completed sooner, enhancing productivity and benefiting the bottom line.
5. Brings people closer
Whilst overcoming challenging and drawing on leadership, lessons and practical takeaways are underlying themes in adventure team building getaways, the most important part is spending time together. And when time is spent together, experiencing something new as a group or working towards a common goal, bonding happens more organically and incredibly effectively. Team building builds stronger interpersonal relationships between employees, and allows them to trust each other. When employees face challenges together and share the spotlight it brings everyone closer together.
When should I go?
The perfect part about adventure activities is that there is one perfect for any occasion! Want to get the team together before the annual Christmas party? Why not let off some steam with indoor paintballing! Or maybe it’s scorching in the office and the team need some time to cool down? How about a weekend retreat on a chartered yacht! The possibilities are endless and available to you all throughout the year!
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