The Role of Team Building in the Performance of an Organization

A team is an organized group, working together for one special goal. A team can only be considered a good team when there is team work.  Team work can only be attained when each person in a group desires to be at his best, work out his personal weakness and develop his strong assets for the betterment of the group. Such group effort is called Team Building. Team building engages each member in a wide range of activities which is primarily for the improvement of the team’s performance. Sometimes mistakenly associated with team recreation, team building consists of fun-filled activities designed by the whole organization to implement group assessment and discover the teams dynamic. From these activities, the organization – be it a school, business, religious group, or a government organization discovers its member’s individual attributes of on a more personal level, and to be able to especially address issues that stop the members in bringing out the best for the team.

Here are some of the best team building activities and its effect to the team’s performance and the organization as a whole.

• Problem Solving Activities – these team building activities are geared towards developing the team’s decision-making.  By participating in this team building activity, each member learns how to properly coordinate ad work together to solve a complex problem that the team is facing. Getting through the activity would mean an enhanced skill in dealing with the organization’s method in problem solving.

• The Fun Communication Activities – these team building activities, as the name suggests, aims at building the skills of every member to communicate effectively when a task has to be delivered. Activities like these are solely design for proper communication within the team.  Conducting communication activities identifies potential communication issues within the team.

• Planning Activities – these team building activities are designed to enhance good planning skills before a solution is reached. This is especially effective in situations when each member is required to adapt to changes and weigh consequences ahead of time, before implementation of a solution.  Conducting planning activities leads to identifying weaknesses of every team member in facing situation with no apparent solution.

• Trust Building activities – Trust is an important factor affecting a team’s performance. Conducting this type of team building activities induce trust between each member. The level of trust may vary in each individual member, and at some point those with low level of trust may affect the performance of the whole team. Trust means comfort. The more trust the team builds, the more comfortable it become in overcoming obstacles.

What do these activities mean to the whole organization? A team is composed of individuals organized to perform a certain task for the organization. An organization is composed of several teams unanimously working for a common goal. The performance of a team defines the success of the whole organization. Each problem that the team faces is the same problem the whole organization has to go through when these problems are not addressed properly at the team level. All issues have to be resolved within the team to ensure the smooth sailing journey towards a successful organization.