Building Team: Activities for Motivating and Inspiring People

Effective, efficient, loyal, and satisfied employees — this is no doubt what every business wants. That is why human resource departments are established and specialists are employed to ensure that only the best candidates are hired.

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The problem, however, is that such people are hard to find, if not non-existent. Everybody will always have an issue pertaining to their jobs and related to their attitude towards work. This is why employee development should always be a part of the organisational plan. Team building activities should never be overlooked and should be given a priority. This is because it is through this effort that more productive and happier workforce is made.

So now, if you want to be a winning manager or boss who knows how to motivate, inspire, and energise people, consider including the following activities in your next event.

The Get Acquainted Game

For a workforce to function cohesively to achieve all the aspirations of the corporation, every single member needs to know one another, as this will bring out camaraderie and understanding. With that, a "Who Am I" quiz can be organised during the activity. This is good for a group of 5 to 10 people. It begins with everybody writing, in an index card, a short biography of themselves, their embarrassing moments, favourite job, likes and dislikes, or personality type. After which, the members hand in the cards and the leader reads them off with the rest guessing who is the person being described. The one who gets the most accurate guesses wins.

Story Telling to Create Spirit in Teams

Tight deadlines and pressures often leave people little time to socialise and build personal acquaintances in the office, making them like strangers confined in one space, forced to work with each other. This is definitely not a healthy business environment since it hinders good communication and could breed resentment. Thus, including a story telling activity in the programme should be considered. This is facilitated by asking each member to share their personal stories, such as what luck or fate brought them to the company, what motivates them to wake up every morning, or what their good and bad experiences are at work. This will reveal the souls of every individual composing the group, which in turn can help create the “spirit” in the team.

These are just two of the proven-effective activities that you can include in your event. If you want to know more or if you need the assistance of the experts in management training and business consultancy, never think twice to get in touch with Curran Associates.