It may be a bit of cliché, but communication is the lifeblood of any company. A company is made up of interacting team members all working towards a shared goal, and not a set of individuals all looking after only themselves. That said, it is amazing just how many businesses have poor communication strategies and really suffer as a result. Here are 3 of the main reasons why you want your staff talking to each other.
Enhanced Productivity. It is the teams who adopt comprehensive communication strategies that perform best, a fact that has been proved in numerous studies over the years. This is largely because no one person can have all the skills required to make a well rounded company and instead lots of people each have their own set of skills. In order for a business to be robust, everyone must share their skills and help each other out when needed. Team building days are a perfect example of this, where the teams who use each other’s strongest abilities perform best.
Less Destructive Office Politics. There will always be a certain amount of office politics in all business environments. It is naive to believe that everyone can get on all the time, but a lack of proper communication leads to issues getting out of hand and causing more harm than they should. If members of a team communicate their issues and contentions in a professional and honest manner, it helps all involved achieve a greater understanding of what the core hurdles are and how best they can be overcome. Additionally, this limits the chances of the same issue causing problems in future as it can be dealt with swiftly when it appears.
Happier Staff.It may seem very outdated, but believe it or not, a great many companies have strict policies on staff talking in work hours. These businesses very rarely retain staff for very long however as it is again human nature to communicate. If you are going to be at work for eight or so hours per day, it is actually very important that you talk and laugh with your colleges.
For companies suffering from poor communications, corporate events or team building days like corporate cookery days are a perfect way to get team members bonding and chatting to each other.
Business have been calling upon team building events for a long time now to help improve the strength of their work force both socially and physically.The idea for using team building days was initially used among the biggest and most diverse companies who had lots of people in lots of different places and who needed all of them to be able to communicate. Smaller companies then saw the benefits of these team building events and started taking part in them also. These days business have moved on and branched off into many different area. There has also been a dramatic increase in the number of people basing their businesses at home or using the Internet for the majority of their trading.These companies have quite recently been introduced to the concept of team building and the number of them taking part is on the rise according to some of the top industry experts.
The findings were released by a group of team building days companies in London, England. What they discovered is that although many Internet based business or those run from home only have a few team members, their communication abilities are limited. There is a tendency to email each other information or questions, rather than sit down to discuss issues face to face. On top of this, many companies such as these have multiple bases and have employees scattered around that never even meet each other properly.On top of this there is a high risk of people working from home contracting health problems associated with over-eating and low levels of activities.
The group who released the findings documented a 30% increase in the number of team building days booked last year by home and internet based businesses (the most popular being corporate cooking events) and suggested this is down to an increased focus on work efficiency. Lots of bigger businesses are seeing the rewards in both staff productivity and reduced days off from getting their staff active and having fun. This is something the smaller companies realize they should be emulating. As well as team building events, many companies are increasing their spend on hospitality events such as Cheltenham hospitality days in an attempt to improve staff job satisfaction.
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