Effective Company Outings & Team Building Activities
Want to have a better, more cooperative team? Maybe you should plan a team outing or office-wide activity. These events help coworkers bond, let off some stress, or even make their communication skills better. They could help boost company morale immensely. Of course, it can be difficult to think of an idea to cater to everyone and stay within budget. Here are a few helpful examples of team-building activities and outings to consider for your company.
The first step in deciding what activity to plan is to figure out the goals of the outing. Is it just for fun? Should there be a part to enhance certain skills? Having these goals figured out beforehand helps to define your priorities, make sure the budget is achievable, and assign responsibilities for planning. Whichever goal you pick, make sure to cater to the occasion to hit that target successfully.
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Speaking of hitting the target, particular activities can be more useful than others when it comes to engaging your team members. For instance, axe throwing can get coworkers to work together to hit the same goal or score higher than other groups. There’s also karaoke, an escape room, scavenger hunts, or teaming up for a sporting competition. As team members have fun working together in a calm setting, it encourages them to effectively talk and cooperate on the challenging and exciting activity that’s in front of them. What’s more, these types of events get each and everyone together outside of the office setting for an exciting change of scenery.Staying in the office? Exciting activities to host at work or virtually examples are solving mysteries, mystery dinner, office trivia, catch phrase, or an improv workshop. If you want to focus more on education, consider enrolling willing members in a masterclass cooking course, art class, or even a professional development workshop. These shared learning opportunities work towards personal growth and possibly career growth depending on what skills were used.
By teaming up together with one another in the proper team-building activity, coworkers from all sorts of walks of life may be molded into a strongly bonded and trustful team. The result of such diverse backgrounds — such as different ages, ethnicities, and personalities — can be very beneficial to everyone in the organization. In fact, bringing different types of ideas and experiences to the table has been linked to a 35% improvement in creativity and performance.
If your organization wants to build a better company culture and drive productivity, don’t ignore the value these activities can bring to the company. For more team building and company outing ideas to contemplate for your place of work, please see the accompanying resource.
Resources
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/creative-team-outing-ideas
