Each and every company utilizes one resource above all else: humanity. Every single worker in an organization contributes to the success of the business in an integral way. Therefore, the biggest contributing factor to a company’s ability to make it in this hit-or-miss world is its effectiveness in generating a constructive team. That’s why teambuilding is one of the most prominent features of any company. Businesses are drawn to investing much time and money into venues of teambuilding in order to create the best possible environment for their employees. Teambuilding has been proven to increase productivity and commitment levels in employees across the board, which in turn contributes to a successful and happy business.
The Benefits of Teambuilding: Productivity
Team building activities are able to foster long-term positive qualities and associations within groups. The message embedded in each game or session conveys that the employer is motivated to pursue employee success. This sort of active investment ideology inspires and improves workmanship, which in turn increases productivity.
Productivity seems like a catch-all phrase that implies business acumen, but in reality, it refers to specific concepts. When there is a direct increase in productivity, it means that both the quantitative and qualitative nature of the work is improved upon during a previously established amount of time. Throughout history, industries have depended on the threat of poverty and the motivation of a consistent paycheck to successfully ensure productivity, but in recent years, businesses have realized the impact positive reinforcement can have on production.
Activities that foster situations enabling people to use unique talents are likely to make colleagues feel supported and connected to their peers. Teams work together during these exercises, and as such, they are granted the opportunity to witness each other’s strengths.
The Benefits of Team Building: Commitment
Nothing speaks louder to the positive impact of teambuilding exercises like the amount of commitment that employees feel afterwards. There is something particular and special about connecting with your fellow peers in strategic and motivational environment. It inspires a new level of commitment to the job, and encourages a progression within the career.
When team members learn that their diverse abilities and interests can make them a more cohesive unit, capable of undertaking strenuous yet rewarding tasks, they have a positive association with both the company itself as well as with their fellow team members. These sorts of experiences improve self-confidence as well, and they help foster an overall sense of accomplishment within the scope of the career.
Furthermore, when individuals associate their own personal strengths and growths with a specific person or period in their life, and by extension with a specific company, they automatically feel closer and connected to that noun for improving their quality of life. If someone’s problem-solving skills improve and they feel more competent, they are going to reward the person or organization that gave them the opportunity to improve with all of their time and effort.
Conrad Armer 
Barbara Ratliff