Organising a Team Building Event, Is It Always Expensive?
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2009
by Brian Middle
http://www.chillisauce.co.uk
With the economic downturn predicted to last until mid 2010 according to the latest findings of the International Monetary Fund, it has never been a more integral time for firms to be productive and profitable. In such testing times, many employees are anxious for their future and the differences being implemented at their place of work. This all leads to stress and a feeling of demotivation and a decline in performance.
One of the finest ways is by organising a team building event in conjunction with a specialist activity organiser.
There is a feeling however that these exercises do tend to be geared to the more athletic, physical workers. Ask around your workplace and you will tend to find many people feel that these days frequently involved physical tasks, such as an assault course, or building a raft to row across a lake or river. Others may find the challenge in problem solving or trust exercises. All these notions are correct, but nowadays the activity management arena has expanded to include a good many exercises that are not overtly physical, but are also comparatively cheap, yet still have the same impact as many of the more outgoing exercises that people may assume will be part of a company team building exercise.
Nowadays a team building event can be organised at a hotel with a spa or country club, which will allow employees to chill out and unwind in a gentle calming atmosphere. Firms can include such tasks as wine tasting or role-play exercises, there are many exercises to do with problem solving within a team, some of which are based on popular infamous television shows such as The Krypton Factor, Dragons Den, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice and The Crystal Maze. Firms can also offer opportunities to promote team building within the framework of a murder mystery evening, a treasure hunt in a limousine, turning your hand to chocolate making or even just having a mix of art and craft exercises available.
It is integral to remember that all these exercises are specifically designed and run to promote the positive aspects of interaction of the team, based on sound psychological principles first discovered in the 1920's and 30's as part of the Hawthorne Report, which first noted and measured the elements of nurturing the notion of teamwork within a company environment. The exercises can be suited ideally to your team, but you can be secure in the knowledge that the key concepts and learning that your team will take from the activity, as well as the mutual positive experience, will be entirely positive within a company context.
A team building event doesn't have to be massively high-priced, a plethora of equipment and be as dramatic as possible. There are a momentous number of exercises now that will make sure that all preferences are catered for within your workforce. A corporate exercises specialist company can help you find a timetable of exercises appropriate for any budget and offer all the required expertise to empower and inspire your workforce and get your company moving on the right track.
To read more about the different types of live events and team building challenges you can prepare for your group, visit www.addchillisauce.co.uk. You can also get a wide range of corporate event ideas from our specialist activity organisers.All our team building challenges include an extensive array of venues suitable for your team day and meeting needs and an extensive array of of actvities including Krypton factor challenge, it's a knockout, challenge 100,Go mad in the country.
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