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BUSINESS ENGLISH 1.1

TOPIC: TEAM BUILDING IN CORPORATES

Lecturer: Pham Thi Phuong

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 In the new hybrid work enviroment, teamwork is not just a nice to have, it’s a
must. To be effective, we make sure that your employee engagement activities are
not just a pat on the back but will get under the skin. We can help your people
connect openly and land important messages through fun and engaging events that
enable collaborative relationships and strengthen workplace culture. All these will
set your organization up for success.

I. The definition of teambuilding

A. Definition
a. Team building is a management technique used for improving the
efficiency and performance of the workgroups through various activities.
It involves a lot of skills, analysis, and observation from the process of
turning a group of individual contributing employees into a cohesive team.
The whole sole motive here is to achieve the organization’s vision and
objectives through forming bonds and connections.
b. Team building is one of the most widely used group-development
activities in organizations.
A common strategy is to have a "team-building retreat" or "corporate
love-in," where team members try to address underlying concerns and
build trust by engaging in activities that are not part of what they
ordinarily do as a team.
c. Team building creates stronger bonds among the members of a group.
The individual members respect each other and their differences and
share common goals and expectations.
  It is claimed that team development has the strongest effect (versus
financial measures) on improving organizational performance and this
statement is absolutely exact.
B. What are some activities of team building in corporates ?
a, Team building is an effective strategy for organizations that want to
cultivate an effective corporate culture where employees enjoy coming to
work, trust each other, and collaborate easily.
b, Team building can include the daily interaction that employees engage in
when working together to carry out the requirements of their jobs. This form
of team building is natural and can be assisted if the group takes the time to
come up with a set of team norms. These norms help group members know
how to appropriately interact on the team and with the rest of the
organization.
c, Some examples of team building in corporates:
Employees use teambuilding to accelerate the work process, find more
creative projects, etc...
- Employees enjoy working together for problem-solving activities.

II. The pros and cons of teambuilding in corporates

A. The advantages of teambuilding in corporates
a. For individual

First, for an individual, Team Building plays an important role in the formation
and development of each individual when joining the organization. If you are a
new employee, such activities help you to integrate more quickly with people in
the company than through jobs. Moreover, the benefits to mention with this activity
are as follows:

1. Practice Time Management Skills:

 In an office environment, times when teamwork is unavoidable and time
management skills are considered quite important. We must clearly allocate time to
complete the assigned tasks, so that when we return to our daily lives, we will have
more time to do other things and more free time to rest and relax. Unbelievable
efficiency in productivity and ability to get the job done.

2. Improve Communication And Leadership:

The activities in the whole are mainly aimed at improving community and
communication, but how to play most effectively requires good coordination
between members. Therefore, this will be the first benefit for myself when
participating in this activity to improve communication and leadership skills.

3. Leverage your strengths and improve yourself:

The most obvious benefit to yourself is being able to promote your strengths to
show your colleagues different sides of yourself. You have a lot of artistic ability,
then this is the time for you to show off all your talents to others.

4. Improve relationships:

Teambuilding activities, it is like a form of bringing colleagues closer together.

Therefore, these Team Building activities will help you improve and increase
relationships with colleagues you have not had the opportunity to contact and work
through before.

5. Help you understand your organization better:

Participating in this activity helps me to stick with and better understand the
organizations I'm working for. With the people there, if you are new to the
company, you have the right to exchange and learn with them the knowledge of the
company, helping you to love your own company more.
6. Exercise Careful Virtue:

Participating in this activity helps me to stick with and better understand the
organizations I'm working for. With the people there, if you are new to the
company, you have the right to exchange and learn with them the knowledge of the
company, helping you to love your own company more.

b. For collective

1. Enhance company culture and communication

Company culture can be explained as the values, norms, goals, and attitudes that
exist within an organization. It defines the environment you work in and makes up
the personality of the company. According to job seekers, they highly value a
company’s culture, and 46% of those who considered a job, but did not apply to it,
because they didn’t feel it would be a good culture fit.

Sometimes the culture of management can differ the culture of the employees, so
finding a middle ground is an important step in creating a more positive
environment. Team building activities will help build corporate culture in the most
effective way. During those team building sessions, the leadership team can also
convey their wishes and share problems so that employees can better understand
the organization. From there, there will be changes to improve working efficiency
and respond well to the organization's internal communication activities.
Therefore, enormous benefits will be brought to the office.

2. Build connections across departments

The connections between employees within one department aren’t the only ones
that matter when it comes to building a stronger team. “Team” doesn’t have to be
confined to the sales team or the marketing team. It is a unified collection of all the
working teams that make up your organization. team building will surely bring
departments closer together to encourage cross-functional collaboration that will
benefit companies.

When the employees have to chance to familiarize themselves with people in other
departments, they may feel more comfortable in the workplace and open doors to
new relationships. Bridging those divides allows for positive relationships to form,
which leads to a more productive company.

3. Increase productivity and work efficiency

Team building activities today bring a lot of important benefits. In which, it is

impossible not to mention that team building will help increase the productivity
and work efficiency of employees in an organization or business. Team building
activities will create motivation and help employees connect with each other,
understand each other better to get connections and make work more convenient.

4. Leaders and managers may find employee’s potential

In a more relaxed and creative environment, leaders may find employees have
hidden skills that haven’t been discovered in the office. leaders may discover that
the quiet new employee is incredible at inspiring their peers and with the right
mentor, development opportunities, and encouragement could be company’s next
rising leader.

5. Management and employees have mutual understanding

In fact, in many businesses, management and employees always disagree or have

no understanding. This has become one of the reasons why it is difficult for
companies and organizations to develop. Therefore, team building becomes a great
way to help bring understanding between management and employees. Being able
to understand each other will help create a unity and thereby bring more efficiency
and success in work.

B. The disadvantages of team building in corporates

While teams can be very effective, there are also some downsides that come
with collaboration. However, because teamwork is valued so highly by most
organizations, these disadvantages aren't often discussed.

In this article, we'll examine some of the most common cons of working
with others in an organization. Each of the items on this list is discussed in greater
detail below.

a, Overreliance on Meetings

It's difficult to run a team without having regular meetings, but meetings
need to be effectively managed and organized. They always need to have a purpose
and a goal or they can devolve into social gatherings.

Because teams are only effective if team members communicate effectively,

meetings are a crucial part of most group projects. Due to the communal nature of
meetings, however, it is easy for discussions to lead to more questions and tangents
than answers and actions. When this happens, additional meetings typically need to
be scheduled, and this can further convolute the project at hand and slow forward
progress.

b,  Blame and Responsibility Issues

When something goes wrong, there can be a tendency for team members to
blame one another. While this isn't always the case and depends largely on the
team members themselves, it is not uncommon for individuals to attempt to
distance themselves from blame and responsibility.

When a single individual completes a task or project and a mistake is

found, it is usually quite clear that they were the one who made the mistake. With a
group, however, it can be much more difficult to work out where the fault actually
occurred, especially if team members have differing opinions as to who was
responsible for what.

c, People Who Work Better Independently

Some individuals are far better at working on their own and don't fit well
into a team environment. Others just feel more comfortable working alone.

These people are happier and more efficient when working independently,
and their work tends to be of higher quality when they don't need to collaborate
with others. Putting an individual like this into a group role may be a poor use of
their talent, and their presence may effect the morale and productivity of other
team members.

d, Free Riders

In theory, the workload for a project should be shared equally among all
team members, but in practice, this is rarely the case. Some people have a tendency
to sit back and let others do most of the work in a cooperative situation. Not only is
this inefficient, but it can also breed resentment and lower morale for the whole
team.

e,  Factionalism

In addition to conflicts arising between individuals, teams can also split

into factions, where two or more sub-groups each have their own agenda or
"political" stance. This type of situation can be difficult to resolve without
dissolving the whole team and rebuilding afresh. Factionalism can occur when
certain team members have worked with one another in the past and inadvertently
adopted an approach or co-work strategy from a previous project. In other cases,
factions can arise simply due to shared and differing opinions

“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a

nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
— John C. Maxwell

III. How to improve teamwork in corporates

Being part of a great team at work is a phenomenal feeling. You know that
feeling?
The fact of the matter is, a lot of workforces suffer from poor communication,
lack of trust, and low engagement—all of which can create a toxic work
environment and erode the chances of teamwork in the workplace.
But, people still want teamwork. And 3 out of 4 employers consider teamwork
are really esstial.
Here are some ways to improve workplace teamwork.
A. The role of leaders

If you don’t already have good teamwork at the grassroots level, then it’s time for
the leadership team to, well, lead. By example. They’re the ones that the rest of
your company look to for guidance, so they should be establishing teamwork as the
norm. Their behaviour will trickle down through the company to leaders at each
level of the company, then to all members of the teams. Eventually the whole
organization will come to accept and expect this mode of working.

B. Communicate, every day, every way

Good communication is at the heart of great teamwork. Great teams

communicate well and often, their members are happy to share ideas, brainstorm
together, ask for feedback, and be contradicted.
This doesn’t mean team members always agree, but they’re able to communicate
through their differences to settle on a sound solution and continue moving
forwards as a team.

So, how to enable good communication?

 Be clear: Set the tone for communication among the team. When is it
acceptable to close your office door? Is it okay to contact someone after
hours? How often should the whole team get together? This outline will help
to keep everyone on the same page and communication flowing.
 Listen: Communication is as much about listening as it is about speaking.
Make sure you’re listening to fellow team members and actually considering
their thoughts before offering your own solutions and input.
 Method: There are so many ways to reach each other in the modern age. Try
to use the most suitable tool to communicate for your specific needs,
whether that’s email, a chat tool, phone call, or face to face. We’ve got an
article that’ll help you decide which communication tool is best for what.
 Touch base: Encourage informal meetings, information sharing, and
huddles between team members. People shouldn’t have to wait for a weekly
catch-up meeting to get together. Collaborative team members are
comfortable communicating as and when they need to.
 Collaboration tools: These enable workers to connect across the world, or
across the office, in a group or one-to-one conversation. They also make
progress on group projects at the times that are most convenient for them.
 C. Establish team rules
“Rules?” I hear you thinking, “that doesn’t sound fun at all.” Think again.
Rules don’t have to be a dampener, but they do have to exist to keep
everyone aligned.
Rules are everywhere - on the sports field, in daily interactions - and they
exist to keep everyone safe and on the same page. How can we more
forward together if we don’t know where we stand? Rules will safeguard the
success and productivity of a team.
Establishing rules early is best, but be willing to consider changing them if
they’re hindering rather than helping the team. You can write them down or
just chat about them openly. Either way, you should be clear on why they
exist and ask for contributions/feedback from everyone.
Some examples:
- When we meet, we’re all present (no cell phones or laptops).
- We’ll be open about our frustrations.
- We listen with intent, rather than waiting for our turn to talk.
- We respect out of office hours and won’t expect communication unless
it’s an emergency.

D. Clarify purpose
If a team doesn’t understand the purpose of their work, their attention and
enthusiasm can dwindle. So, find the "why" - the purpose - for your current
project or final goal, and why you’re taking each of the steps that lead you
there. Not only will this keep everyone motivated and aligned, it’s a great
way to review your process and ensure you’re taking the best steps to get to
where you need to be.
 E. Recognize and reward
Recognized employees are satisfied employees, according to this recent
survey. And satisfied employees do better at work (you can find out more
here if you’re interested). If you want a happier, stronger team, recognition
is key - are this doesn’t refer to a monetary reward.
Here are some of the ways employees want to be recognized and
rewarded:
- Company or team-wide emails recognizing individuals/teams
- In-person recognition and thanks
- Promotions
- Bonuses
- Extra vacation days