One of the toughest parts of running a successful corporation is creating an environment in which people with vastly different personalities and ideologies can work well together. It's in a business' best interest to employ a diverse workforce in order to have a variety of strengths, skill sets and ideas. However, if a company can't create a cohesive unit from these individual employees, long-term success is virtually impossible to achieve.
Smart executives recognize this and take several steps to ensure that the people who work for them also work together. Generally, this begins during the hiring process; team work questions are standardly worked into the initial interview and all pre-hire testing models also evaluate the trait. Just because a person CAN work as a team member doesn't necessarily mean that they WILL, though. Fun team building activities can help with that.
Click here to watch Subject expert Josh Freedman talk about whether or not team building exercises build a stronger team.
How Can Team Building Exercises Help?
Employees must learn to know and trust each other before a true team environment can develop. Under normal circumstances, not everybody may be inclined to be social at work. This could be because they're introverts, because they're too busy, or because they don't feel as if they have anything in common with coworkers.
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