A corporate team building session allows the employer to see who becomes a leader and who becomes a follower, within the team structure.
It also allows you to see who works best with others and who can imaginatively provide the best insights. In most corporations, those who take on the task and take on a leadership role are often excellent candidates for higher-level needs in the future.
The general best practice in corporate team building is to mix all sides of the water cooler group, using those who may not know each other with those who may have disagreed in the past.
When a team is formed, its structure can be made up of any qualified person or those who are totally new. The old saying “two heads are better than one” still applies in team building, even with multiple heads on the team.
Assigning tasks to your new corporate team allows you to see productivity challenges as well as problem-solving accomplishments, utilizing the strengths of multiple people instead of just one.
Starting your teams on set tasks that can take hours, days, weeks, or even months to accomplish can allow you, the employer or manager, to use a multi-cultural and/or multi-structural approach. This will help develop understandings and help find weak spots in the team’s desired outcome.
Once the teams have been established, don’t be afraid to do a little headhunting and switch places. Where an individual may not have been very successful on one team, this strategy may find him taking the lead on another. Ultimately, finding the strengths and weaknesses in your team’s formation is a goal worth achieving.
Think about your corporate team’s advantage, focus on strengths, and set tasks and changes when necessary.
Keep your tasks and add new tasks as you go.
The development of their team structures and leadership roles are easily established over time.
The reports generated and applied to the tasks with the desired results help a lot. It is equally important to allow all team members to have a voice and be able to address issues or situations that may arise.
In a teamwork environment, with no voice for each member, problems often find a way to escape detection or to be resolved. In all aspects of assigning tasks to your team, be sure to give all members a fair and equal opportunity to speak and make suggestions.
It would be redundant to allow the person taking the leadership role to have a voice. Corporate team building is just that, it is team building, and there is no “i” in corporate.