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Team Building: Happiness and Employee Engagement

Current times make it tough to really engage with our employees and co-workers. We long for a time again when we can be in the same room. But as a result, engaging, inspiring and creating a positive environment for employees has never been so important. A team building event builds practical skills for workers to apply, but it also tells them their needs, mental state and wellbeing are also being considered. Team building games and activities are a great way to break up the grind, change the scenery [even if it’s virtual!] and give a whole new, engaging experience. It’s fun!

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Team Building: Are you Saying Sorry too much?

Group work often requires the combination of a number of different personalities. In fact, varying personalities and right balance of contributors and the variety of skills they bring is the the key to effective teamwork. However, without effective communication and the confidence to share your opinions, participate in discussion and debate and back your own ideas, are you limiting your potential in what you can bring to team orientated tasks?

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Team Building: Discovering the key to team success

“We’ve found that three of Hackman’s conditions—a compelling direction, a strong structure, and a supportive context—continue to be particularly critical to team success. In fact, today those three requirements demand more attention than ever. But we’ve also seen that modern teams are vulnerable to two corrosive problems—“us versus them” thinking and incomplete information. Overcoming those pitfalls requires a fourth critical condition: a shared mindset.”

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Team Building: Happiness in the workplace

Happiness in the workplace is vital at the best of times, but given our current state in the pandemic, it seems even more pertinent. With so many of us working from home, the daily grind can feel monotonous and draining. Changing it up with some and different ways to engage employees, like team building activities, is so important to buck the trend and keep things spontaneous, as well as engaging employees in a different way.

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