We recently held a golf tournament restricted to company employees only. The company set up the teams with 2 things in mind. One was to even out the teams with the same mixture of experienced and new players and the second was to put individuals together that did not normally work together. It was a great opportunity for employees to get to know someone they only saw in passing at the company.
Other companies do similar team building exercises. My sister worked for a large pharmaceutical company. The company signed up several departments to spend two entire workdays assisting Habitat for Humanity building new homes. The employees were given the choice to work their normal job at the company, or join the group building homes. They were paid their normal salary/hourly wage whichever they chose to do. My sister (an Executive Administrative Assistant) spent the two days painting doors and trim. She learned some new skills and got to know other employees a lot better. She said she felt closer to the employees she worked with building homes after they were back in their normal job.
There are consulting firms that specialize in assisting companies with team building exercises, but any company can do it without spending the money on consultants. All that is required is to find an opportunity to take the employees away from the normal workplace and have them work together to achieve an end result that is beneficial and/or uplifting. Sporting events and volunteer work are always good team building exercises. What does your company do?
The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.
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