Your Staff Can Benefit From Team Building

Team building can be very important to improve staff working relationships, and can help them get on better. Team building events can help motivate staff.

When I worked at a garden centre in the office there was very much a them and us devide between the office staff and the shop floor staff. Our boss decided to do something about it, and started once a week for half an hour what I called “buddy building”, but it was actually team building.

The closed sign was put on the garden centre door, the answer phone clicked on, and then 30 staff would gather on the shop floor. there our boss would annouce what we were to do and the team building targets he had set.

Once the M.D. asked us to pair up into small teams of 3 or 4 and gave us a sheet of questions, the questions were all about the garden centre products, flowers and plants.

Not only did this help us get on better, but it also taught us more about the products we were selling.

Another week we were asked to find another member of staff and pair up, find 2 new products from the shop floor, and were given 10 minutes to read what the new products were for. Being shy the next part was very difficult.

We then had to stand up in front of every one else, and give our selling pitch for the new product, much to the amusement of the rest of the 30 staff. This was highly embarrassing but after the first time became good fun. Team building events can help break the ice between staff members, and help new members of staff to ease themselves into the Company.

These team motivation events were actually quite good fun.
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