Team building can be very important to improve staff working relationships, and can help them get on better. Team building events can help motivate staff.
When I worked at a garden centre in the office there was very much a them and us devide between the office staff and the shop floor staff. Our boss decided to do something about it, and started once a week for half an hour what I called “buddy building”, but it was actually team building.
For the latest team building activity the 30 members of staff would all meet up on the shop floor, having closed shop, and put the answer phone on. there our boss would annouce what we were to do and the team building targets he had set.
One time he asked us to pair up into small teams of 3 or 4 and gave us a sheet of questions, which were about the garden centre products, flowers and plants.
Not only did this help us get on better, but it also taught us more about the products we were selling.
Another week we were asked to pair up with another member of staff, find 2 new products from the shop floor, and were given 10 minutes to read what the new products were for. Being shy the next part was very difficult.
We then had to stand up in front of every one else (there were about 30 of us) and give our selling pitch for the new product. This was highly embarrassing but after the first time became good fun. New members of staff quickly became intergrated within the existing members of staff, got to know each other faster and it broke the ice.
These team motivation events were actually quite good fun.
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