Team Building Questions

Building a team in any company can be a difficult process to get to grips with. A company is likely to understand that it needs an efficient team to help increase its profits, but may be unaware of how to achieve it, or even what exactly the process involves. Here are 5 common team building questions to help you to understand what it is all about.

1. What is the basic purpose of team building?

The aim of building a team is to create a group of people who need each other in order to accomplish a common shared goal. Each member of the team should be committed to the goals of the team as well as to any individual goals they may have. The process of building a team should achieve more effective team players and a better functioning team.

2. Is it expensive to build a team?

That is probably the wrong question. It can be expensive if a high quality provider is used, but it needn't be if the work is done in-house. However, team building is not really an expense. It is an investment in the company's future. If company profits through better efficiency and worker satisfaction through greater engagement can be increased as a result, it will quickly pay for itself.

3. Do workers really need team building?

It depends. If a company has a highly efficient team of workers who are working to capacity and who are producing maximum output, then perhaps not. However, most companies do not have this high level of efficiency in their workforce and there is usually room for a great deal of improvement all round.

4. Should every member of the workforce be sent on a company away day?

Yes and no. If all the workers work together as a team, then yes, if the company has a number of quite different departments, then maybe not. For example, the finance department teamed up with the delivery department is unlikely to be a success.
They may work for the same company, but their jobs are quite different. They are not part of the same team. The entire workforce should be sent on away days for team building training, but different jobs should be kept in separate teams and they should be trained differently too.

5. Is the team building exercise, the actual day or weekend of activities, all there is to the process?

Hopefully not! There should be a whole range of follow up activities once the basic training is over. What has been learned on the company away day is only the first part of the process. An assessment of the day should be analysed and recommendation made, as well as applying back in the workplace everything that has been learned on the away day.

Any other team building questions that might arise should be answered by the provider of the company away day. The providers of the games and activities employed in building a team are the experts who understand the process and who can assess the needs of any company, large or small.