Company is a mechanism in which every "cog" influences the work, allowing to make it better and more productive. How to build friendly relationships in the team and unite employees in the name of set goals? Sometimes, it is enough to turn to team-building events.
Last month we held an event broadcast on the topic of team building. The head of the event department at Aventura Event Agency Lyubov Trofimova talked with representatives of the team building industry, asking them in more detail about their work and this year's trends. How to organize everything correctly and set the team up for productive work – explained by professionals in their field – the head of the team building company "Joker Group" Denis Lomovtsev (Omsk) and the founder of the Workshop of Integrated Quests "Element of the Game" Tatiana Voistrik (St. Petersburg).
This article is for those who missed our broadcast and for those who want to review the main points.
How to motivate a team after remote work?
In addition to the effect of team bonding, team building helps to reveal employees' leadership qualities, build trusting relationships, and teach employees to work together. In an informal atmosphere, the entire professional team, regardless of the type of activity, will be able to get the missing emotions and communication that was so lacking in the office or while working remotely.
Self-isolation has deprived many people of the opportunity for live communication. After prolonged remote work, every employee will have to get to know the team anew. Therefore, the best solution for restoring productive relationships can be called mobilizing the team. This can be done after quarantine with the help of team building – even if in gloves, masks, and with sanitizers.
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Team building helps to reveal employees' leadership qualities and build trusting relationships |
Team Building in the “Post-COVID” World – What Will It Look Like?
Event planning after quarantine is a bold task that requires thorough preparation – meticulous cleaning of the venue, ensuring maximum safety, and maintaining social distancing. According to experts Denis and Tatyana, in the summer of 2020 team building programs will be popular, but with a caveat – offerings will be mid-budget and in demand by teams of 50-150 people.
- Team building helps unite the team, relieve accumulated stress, go beyond the usual story, and provides an opportunity to demonstrate yourself – notes Tatyana Voistrik.
As a solution, it is proposed to use new or classic scenarios aimed primarily at “fun”, ensuring teamwork, but without much reflection and unnecessary psychological pressure. Such an approach will help find a starting point from which the team can begin work in an updated mode, moving away from online projects.
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Scenarios aimed primarily at “fun” and ensuring teamwork |
Trends 2020
Despite the current global situation, team building events remain relevant in the near future. Experts also emphasized this, highlighting the following trends among the 2020 tendencies:
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Rethinking team building. It helps bring back forgotten emotions, becoming a kind of stimulator for productive work outside the apartment.
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Maintaining social distancing. It teaches you to recharge with positivity and creativity while observing the recommended distance. It allows you to realize the value of tactile and live communication.
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Thorough cleaning of venues. A factor especially important in the post-COVID period, which should be taken into account when conducting team building and other mass events.
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Ensuring the safety of staff and guests. Special personal protective equipment will help protect people from viruses. These include masks, gloves, and disinfection stations. If necessary, body temperature can be measured. The presence of a medic at the open venue is mandatory.
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Attention to ecology. An important factor drawing attention to problems in production. It models current situations and problems, and also teaches actions in a specific environment – teaches team interaction in case of emergencies.
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The importance of emotional balance. It raises an important topic during the pandemic and teaches how to combat a lack of emotions. It allows you to recharge with energy and eliminate the stiffness acquired during isolation.
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The importance of emotional balance |
Can online team building replace a full-fledged live event?
As experts note, despite the possibility of holding online events and entertainment activities outside offline life, we will still miss live human communication, tactile sensations (hugs and handshakes), as well as team interaction.
- Team building is an opportunity to build memories and a kind of construction foundation that allows you to turn employees into a cohesive whole,” explains Tatiana Voistrik.Everyone is tired of staying at home, so everyone wants to get out into nature, especially when the weather outside is good. As we have already found out, team building events solve many goals and objectives. Sports events deserve special mention, as they have not only been popular recently but are also good for health. Today strengthening the immune system is especially important.
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Today strengthening the immune system through sports is especially important |
- In recent years, our country has pursued a policy of mass participation in sports among the population, and many companies support this idea, - says Denis Lomovtsev. - There are many people who played sports in childhood or adulthood and achieved some success. And of course they want to realize themselves in this kind of hobby. It is sports events that allow them to show their capabilities in individual and team competitions. When choosing the format of an event, it is important to focus primarily on the character of the team. Any activity is worthwhile if the company's employees are interested and willing.
Classic team-building events will remain just as popular. Creative team-building activities will also remain relevant, including “scripted” formats (for example, a “composite picture”), culinary and art performances.
Aventura Event Agency has extensive experience in holding team-building events. Our specialists follow the trends of the team-building industry and keep up with the times. We will be happy to help you choose a suitable format for the event, take on all organizational matters, write a script, prepare the venue, and conduct the event at a worthy level. All you have to do is take an active part in the action and observe the results in the form of coordinated work of the team.
You can learn more about team-building trends, as well as other relevant ideas, from our event broadcast.
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Event broadcast: Team Building. Trends. Life Hacks. |
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