Great teams make things happen more than anything else in organisations. McGregor's X-Y Theory explains why empowering teams get the best results. It's more about attitude and behaviour towards staff than processes and tools.
Great teamwork is born from concentrating on the employees within that team rather than the task they are doing. By concentrating more on the employee and making sure that's right, more often than not the task will just happen.
Employees working together, for each other in a team is a huge resource for any company. They are more important than the individual skills they possess, the processes they follow and the policies of the organisation. They become part of a great team when the team as a whole decides to do something for themselves, not by being told they must do it but because they have decided this is what needs to be done and by achieving this goal they will make a difference.
There are many team building exercises that can be done, ranging from expensive team days out to inexpensive drinks after work. This article looks at using a quiz night as a team building exercise
Choosing a quiz night for a team building event could be a good idea and here's why.
It's inexpensive. You can create free quiz if you have the time and inclination, or you could buy a quiz pack for a couple of pounds online. You may wish to charge a fee for entering which could also cover costs of a few beers or pizza.
Secondly, it's flexible - you only need a couple of hours after work, either in the office canteen or down the local pub (if you go to the local pub you may also be able to see if you could get the landlord to donate a free drink to the winner on account of the extra trade you'd bring in!).
Thirdly and most importantly people will have to work together and pull in the same direction in order to win the quiz. Without even knowing what they are doing all of a sudden they are giving opinions on answers, joking with colleagues they perhaps wouldn't usually talk with and reasoning together with the common goal of getting the answers right.
They can also be used in the wider organisation context. I've been to corporate quiz nights where there is a condition that you can only have two members of the same business function in your quiz team, therefore ensuring that people across the business meet each other and are almost forced (in a non-forceful way!) to interact and find out what they do.
Bringing business functions closer together on a personal level can help bring transparency across the organisation and that can only be a good thing.
The main end product here is that people get to know each other as people, rather than colleagues. This is so important because once you start knowing people and liking them, it's almost second nature to want to help them, and it's when everyone in the business is striving to help each other out is when the business becomes great!
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