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Team building is a crucial factor that may lead to low productivity when overlooked. Your team should be able to interact with each other without impediments to enhance cooperation and achieve high performance. This can be only possible if they are comfortable enough to work as one entity and not as individuals.
Together everyone achieves more; this is the magic of a team. It creates synergy while aligning each team member’s efforts with the organization’s mission. Therefore, the management takes several initiatives to keep the morale of their teams high paired with tools and techniques to keep them motivated.
Outdoor events
The immense pressure of meeting targets and managing the market dynamics, workplace conflicts takes a toll on the team’s ability to perform better.
It’s a well-known fact that most team members in an organization feel stressed, exhausted, and overworked. So, to help them relax, rev up and re-energize, management may organize team excursions to famous tourist destinations, which are accessible by private transport, flight, train or by taking a chartered ship.
These team outings range from a single destination to a multi-destination that can be made for employees with different preferences.
These so-called outings provide a platform for team-building activities and act as an effective way to bring back harmony and trust among team members.
Target-based Incentives
Organizations should work on developing an effective system to offer incentives to their teams once they achieve their assigned goals, be it meeting sales targets, a successful marketing campaign, timely completion of a project, etc.
Even though it is essential to set targets and goals, monetary incentives are not always the most effective way to motivate a team. However, the research has shown that those with a long-term perspective on getting the assistance they need and want are likely to excel at work.
Acknowledge and reward
The sincere effort of the teams must be acknowledged and rewarded by the management. In addition, there is a need to develop an effective system to give genuine feedback to the team members that will help them learn and grow while mentoring and professionally guiding them throughout their employment with the organization.
This will, in turn, help them deliver results more efficiently and enable the organization to achieve its goals. It is also imperative that the feedback must be genuine.
Effective Communication
Open communication will help build a healthy professional relationship within teams. Teams that have a common goal will perform better than teams with individual goals and different agendas. By setting goals and objectives, more work can get done efficiently as everyone is on the same page.
The management should also create an effective employee redressal platform to share their grievances and resolve them.
Trust and loyalty are developed when people feel that they are part of a team rather than tools for completing a task in an office filled with politics and rumor mills.
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