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Team Building
Something is comforting about walking into the office and chatting to someone while grabbing your morning cup of coffee or heading for lunch with your team after your afternoon meeting. Now, we must settle for virtual interaction to meet our needs of human connection and interaction. So, while you cannot magically make your employees feel less isolated, you can certainly create a culture that recognizes these tricky circumstances and aims to alleviate the pressure for your remote workers.
Game nights are a thing of the past for many of us. Gathering with friends, playing silly games, and letting our competitive streak run wild. Why not recreate it in the virtual space? Ranging from party classics like Scrabble and UNO to mysterious social deception games, there is something for every group.
Remote working is no longer ‘our new normal’, it is just normal. Ideally, many of us have found ways to settle into remote working, by creating a schedule, setting a routine to structure our days and make the overall experience smoother. However, over a year later since many of us left the office, it is important to still acknowledge that remote working signifies both pros and cons for your employees. While many may enjoy avoiding the morning commute or being able to go for a walk and stretch on our break, the times that we are living through come with some inevitable challenges.
I've run a remote team for the last 24 months in the branding and marketing of a global chocolate brand. I'm based out of Los Angeles. I handle the strategic direction for the brand. In contrast, each of the regional teams across Singapore, Australia, Mexico, London, Dubai, and Switzerland handle the brand strategy's on-ground execution in their respective regions.
The global pandemic has made everyone adapt quickly to the ‘new normal’ and shift to remote working. HR managers who think that employees will take care of team building at their end are grossly disillusioned. In this distributed and remote world, , team building activities are crucial than ever before.
Organizing a team building event isn’t just about sending an invite and plugging your device into a stable internet connection. Like any other event, virtual team building requires preparation, planning, and coordination for flawless execution.
In this article, Kraftylab brings to you some of the best practices for HR managers to remotely plan and coordinate team building events:
"A strong team performs better, solves better, and grows better," says Sara, the sales manager at a leading manufacturing company. Twice every year, she organizes team building activities for her team, where they all create something together. Sara feels this helps her team learn to adapt, connect, and build rapport. Sara highlights, "These team building activities foster creative thinking and emotional intelligence."
Teamwork is the most critical asset of an organization. Like Sam Walton said, "Individuals don't win, teams do." Team cohesion encourages individuals to work collaboratively and focus more on the entire team's success and not just their individual gains.
Between the opportunities to strengthen the team bonding and to inject fun and play into the rather stressful workdays, it's a great way to recognize and appreciate the diversity of other personalities.
One step into this empowering environment is encouraging socialization within a company. Whether it’s casually talking or working together towards a common goal, it’s human nature to become inspired in the presence of others. By building relationships among peers, coworkers are exposed to new perspectives which translate into a broader range of ideas.
