3 Team Building Tips

One of the most important ingredients to business success is a strong and dedicated team. When colleagues know each other’s strengths and support each other’s efforts, everything comes a little easier. Here are our three tips for building a strong, united team.

1 – Have a common goal. Individual performance-based goals are fine, but even better is having something the entire team can strive to achieve together. This could be a sales record, a quality standard, or almost any other measure of success, but the important thing is to look at the performance of the team as a whole. Doing so encourages teammates to support each other and rely on each other’s strengths. It also establishes the idea that, while failures are something that impact everybody, successes are to be shared and celebrated as a unit.

2-Communicate. When conflicts arise, discuss them as a group. Let every voice be heard before making a decision as to how the situation should be handled. People are better able to function as team players when they feel their opinions are respected, and the overall attitude of the organization will be much more positive.

3 – Take time to have fun. Get to know each other outside the context of work. Have a party, get dinner, or volunteer together. Getting to know your team as people will give you a stronger sense of each other when you return to the office, and team members will develop a camaraderie that will make coming in to work each day a pleasure. The team that plays together achieves extraordinary success together!

How do you foster team unity? Leave us your tips in the comments!