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Are Your Team Building Events Delivering the Desired Impact?

Team building activities are a common and well-recognized method for improving morale, communication, and collaboration within organizations. In fact, 76% of Indian companies have reported using team-building activities to foster collaboration among teams and improve overall workplace dynamics. While such events can undoubtedly provide a temporary boost, the real challenge lies in ensuring these activities have a long-lasting impact on team performance and organizational success.

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When was the last time you played a game? Chances are it was a long time ago, as new statistics show that half of  adults don’t find the time to play games simply for fun. I know what you are thinking — play is at the very bottom of your ever-expanding to do list. So why play games during teambuilding? Will these games ultimately generate any benefit for the company?

Team Building GamesPeople are the most valuable assets of any organisation. People – humans – have been created with the capacity to achieve beyond boundaries, but, the catch is that not everyone comes close to unleashing their latent potential. Why so, you may ask?
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Most of us know Pixar Animation as the world leader in producing animation movies, but lesser known are the stories of exemplary leadership and team work that brought about the success of the company. In his excellent work “Superteams”, noted author Khoi Tu documents the initial days of Pixar Animation when the company was struggling to stay afloat in spite of having some of the best minds in the animation industry. No story about Pixar is complete without mentioning the core leadership team of Pixar from its initial days – 3 stalwarts of the industry – Steve Jobs, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter. These were the 3 leaders who led Pixar in times of hardship and transformed the struggling company into an animation powerhouse.

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A few days back I read the book, “Ubuntu” by Stephen Lundin & Bob Nelson. The key message of the book – for me, resonated with some people I know and to some extent with some of our Indian philosophy as well. The book narrates an interesting story of an organization, which was struggling to reach the top even after putting every right process in place. What then, was the issue?
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One of the very inspiring movies about building a good team in trying circumstances.

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The name of the movie is inspired by a poem written by William Ernest Henley. Nelson Mandela has stated that this was the one poem that inspired him and kept him going through all his years in prison at Robben Island. The poem goes like this:
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Employee engagement is one of the most important aspects of HR departments and management teams in many successful organizations. And, why shouldn’t it be? When employees are engaged and satisfied, it leads to better productivity, increased revenue, and reduced turnover, amongst other things.

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Many cutting-edge software businesses, such as Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon, use cross-team collaboration to grow rapidly. If you still rely on isolated departments, you should reconsider. Collaboration among cross-functional teams is a fantastic thing. When teams from several departments cooperate, your work will take on a more global perspective.

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So very often, leaders in teams feel that individuals in their team are “holding back” – and not giving their all. Do you have a situation like that?

Facing the Giants – is one movie that you should get your team to watch together. Broadly, it is the story of a losing coach with an underdog football team that faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results. Watch the video below:
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A leadership fable by Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, really brings to light how teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

“Teamwork is not a virtue, it’s a choice, you have to decide whether you want to be a team or not and accept the sacrifices and the cost it entails, ultimately it comes down to mastering some simple concepts that you probably already know but the hard part is doing them everyday, day in and day out, it’s a discipline of mastering some simple things”

Teamwork is the most untapped competitive advantage of business today, the question though is, why is it so rare? For all the talk about teamwork and all the attention it supposedly receives, it isn’t apparent in most organizations. Why?

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