When the pandemic outburst put a halt to our lives, digital media helped establish a new normal. Today organisations across industries are focused on facilitating remote work. More than 74% of employees prefer remotes working and believe that it’s the new normal.
Increasingly used by organisations and training professionals across the world, experiential learning is here to stay. It allows for impactful training while being engaging for the learner. With a wide range application, experiential learning has found its way across sectors including team building, along with enabling learning and development.
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Riding is my passion. It has always been my dream to be a professional rider. By God’s grace, I have been very fortunate that I am living my dream. Recently I bought a sports bike. At most times, I used to ride alone. That was until I met my first riding group “ROAR” – Riders Of Assorted Rides. Since then I have been to many places with this bunch of enthusiastic riders. I did find it a bit awkward riding with them initially – however, after few rides I realised that riders project the best team spirit. Most of the times, we ride with unknown riders. However, the bonding, trust, and openness they demonstrate is something we don’t often find in a lot of corporate teams, even though they may have been working together for years.
Staring at the screen, both of us are striving to win the Need for Speed race. Both of us against each other, we just want to win, no matter what! I can’t believe he is the guy I was teaching how to play this game about half an hour back. And now I am struggling to defeat him!?
We recently worked with a senior team which had a new leader. The fact that the leaders working style was very different from the previous leader and the added fact that nearly half of the members were new to the team, made it necessary for the team to get into an offsite – to try and construct a cohesive team identity.
A team building offsite is an amazing opportunity for the team to promote new and sustainable ways of communication and collaboration, which leads to overall enhanced work performance and betterment of the team’s dynamic. It fosters creativity and supports innovation, the combination of which is vital to a company’s success. With the right planning and execution, an offsite event can have enduring benefits in the team’s overall output.
In his book, “The 5 dysfunctions of a team”, noted author Patrick Lencioni makes a very pertinent observation, “”Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare”.