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2006-12-19
Sometimes it seems that you have done everything within your capacity to maximize your staff productivity: collected the best personnel, created excellent working conditions, provided your employees with incentives and a competitive salary, yet the results don’t satisfy you: you feel that business is developing at a slow pace, and your staff could perform better than they do now. To squeeze the best out of your employees, you need to know them and the way they work. The various team building activities outdoors are very helpful in this case – besides teamwork conditions, they provide a relaxed setting and challenging situations which help people reveal their character and abilities.Office is a place where established rules of communication to a certain extent restrict people’s natural behaviour, and thus prevent from revealing their personal traits, talents, likings, etc. Even wearing a suit, people feel somehow more obliged to be discreet and polite, their behaviour becomes more refined. That is, the level of formality required at work masks our natural habits. On the one hand, rules are vital in any organization; on the other hand, the formal workplace environment often excludes lively interaction, dynamics, challenge, variety, etc. The strictly defined roles, monotonous tasks, lack of interaction provide no opportunity for employees to try their abilities in something new and thus reveal their hidden potential. Meanwhile proper exploitation of this potential is vital for companies who want to accelerate their business.So how outdoor team building activities work? The principle is simple: a group of people are put into a relaxed environment where they can be themselves; more than that, they are exposed to challenge. T-shirts instead of formal suits and a bit of challenge can reveal the participants’ hidden traits and talents in a miraculously short time. A ‘rough’, natural environment makes people behave naturally; meanwhile challenge, especially when the time is limited and prompt action taking is required, provokes spontaneous reaction which says about people best. The dynamics of the surroundings, concrete tasks to be performed, and natural environment offer a change for the inhibiting work environment, quicken the process of getting to know one another, allow for self trial in new spheres, developing new skills. Maybe your employees have yet undiscovered talents and could achieve more in some other sphere, maybe somebody avoids responsibility, or there is a lack of interaction in your team that prevents smooth business development – outdoor team activities is the perfect way to find it out.
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