TEAM BUILDING IN THE WORKPLACE

“Teamwork makes the dream work”!

INTRODUCTION
Team building is known as the process of forming a team that effectively collaborates to
achieve a common objective. The significance and primary goal of team building is to motivate
employees and bond among individuals to build a successful team. Building these connections
through teamwork is tremendously advantageous for businesses and organizations. Workplace
projects involving teams benefit from team-building exercises since they help the teams get to
know one another better. Following team-building activities, employees are better able to
understand one another’s strengths, shortcomings, and interests. Communication
improvement is one of the best outcomes of team-building exercises. Regularly scheduled
team-building activities can enhance your workplace culture and allow you to better
comprehend your staff's requirements and desires you a chance to better comprehend the
requirements and desires of your staff. Working as a team, you can achieve success. They know
their goals and the best way to accomplish them is by working together. The task is divided
among the teams. This implies that if one team member has less work to do than another, she
can help them out. The job can thus be finished more rapidly, increasing productivity.
Teamwork makes the ability to solve problems, organize, and make decisions possible.
Additionally, it teaches team members to take ownership of their choices and actions. You can
accomplish your largest goals if you have a team working together to achieve them. You can
accomplish your goals with the aid of a team that is aware of its objectives and how to get
there.

BACKGROUND
The now-classic Hawthorne Studies contributed to the development of the team concept in the late
1920s and early 1930s. These included several research tasks intended to thoroughly analyze what
happened to a group of workers under varied circumstances. After extensive examination, the most
significant factor, according to the researchers, was the growth of a sense of group identity, social
support, and cohesion that came with increasing employee participation. Team building is essential in
every organization because it brings people together through cooperation and mutual support. It is
entertaining and gives people the chance to interact in new and interesting ways when they engage in
activities that foster team growth. This enhances their effectiveness and performance,
resolves disagreements and misunderstandings, and increases mutual acceptance. This
promotes an encouraging and productive workplace culture. Diversity is also promoted by team
building. Most businesses hire people from a variety of nations, cultures, and linguistic
backgrounds.
When teammates collaborate, they can come up with brilliant ideas. Innovations are more
likely to be fostered by organizations that support public forums where creative people can
gather and engage. Addressing areas where the workforce could use improvement is one of the
main goals of planning team-building activities. Task distribution within the team, time
management, creativity, and improvement in workplace communication are a few such
aspects.
REFERENCES
Dianna (2006) Teams: Teamwork and Teambuilding, Prentice Hall, New York.

National Association for Healthcare Quality http://www.nahq.org Publications related to quality

healthcare, including team building

Wilson, F. 1996, ‘Great Teams Build Themselves’, Team Performance Management: An International
Journal, vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 27-31.