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Team Building Checklist: Outdoor Event Planning Edition
Are you on the lookout for an exciting and rejuvenating way to strengthen your team’s bond while enjoying the beauty of the great outdoors? Look no further than TeamBonding’s outdoor team building activities. Our programs offer the perfect blend of fun and learning, helping you improve communication, problem-solving skills, and foster a sense of camaraderie. So, let’s dive into the team building checklist for planning an unforgettable outdoor experience with your team and TeamBonding.
Creating a People First Culture & Dodging Company Culture Killers
A good company culture is a key aspect of organizational success, and it can help your business become more innovative, profitable, and driven. However, maintaining that culture can be a challenge. There are numerous company culture killers that can hinder progress, decrease engagement, lower productivity, and more.
Why Coworkers Are Not Your Friends, Unless…
“Your coworkers are not your friends” and “work friends are not real friends” are phrases you have likely heard before. They’re not entirely incorrect, but they also don’t capture the full reality and potential of working relationships. Coworkers may not be the same as your non-work friends. However, you can still build solid relationships in the workplace, and those relationships can help you, your career, and the business itself.
Expert Team Building Tips for Your Next Event
If you want to succeed as a business, having a good workplace environment is essential. A positive culture and environment will help motivate employees, reduce turnover, better teamwork/communication, and much more. Team building is one of the best ways to create a positive culture and better your workplace. In this blog, we will highlight some of the most important team-building tips from the pros themselves.
Corporate Culture: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do
Corporate culture is something that often confuses and frustrates leaders, but it is also one of the most important parts of any business, company, or organization. Corporate culture influences the way people interact with each other, work, communicate, conduct business, and much more. A positive and healthy corporate culture can help push your business towards success.
5 Secrets to Employee Happiness
Employee happiness is often overlooked in favor of short term profits, but one of the keys to long term success is ensuring that your employees are happy. Happiness in the workplace can spur innovation, inspire creativity, and drive your company to success.
15 Fun Activities for Employees
Most of the time, work is serious. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have some fun every once in a while. Though it may seem like a waste of time, having fun at work can provide numerous benefits to you and your team. It can promote relationship building, team building, improve productivity, increase creativity, and boost team spirit.
Why is Professional Development Important?
Professional development is the continued education and training a person undergoes after they have already entered the workforce. Though it may seem unnecessary to many, professional development is essential if you want to succeed, grow, and achieve your full potential. Professional development can help you get more career opportunities and advance professionally.
Encouraging Authenticity in the Workplace
It’s often difficult for employees to express authenticity in the workplace. The demands of the job, the pressures of being successful, and the expectations of others can make employees feel like they have to conform to a specific work persona.
The Importance of Building Psychological Safety at Work
Psychological safety is something that is incredibly important in the workplace, but many misunderstand what it is and why it matters. Psychological safety in the workplace is an expectation held by the entire team that they won’t be embarrassed, rejected, humiliated, or punished for things they shouldn’t be, such as presenting ideas, getting feedback, or taking risks. Psychological safety empowers employees to take risks and be courageous.
Leadership vs Management: What’s the Difference
Leadership and management are often used like synonyms, but they are actually two different things. Both are essential if you want to be successful in the workplace, and when utilized in tandem, can elevate you and your team to new heights. However, that’s not possible unless you know the manager and leader differences.
Team Success Starts with an Ownership Mindset
The ownership mindset is something that you may not have heard of, but it plays a huge role in team success. Having an ownership mindset is about taking ownership and responsibility of your business, the decisions you make, and the outcomes of those decisions. With the right mindset, you and your team can reach new heights and work better than ever.
Monthly Event Spotlight
December is more than just the final chapter of the year—it’s a season of celebration, reflection, and togetherness. For workplaces, it’s a golden opportunity to strengthen connections, boost morale, and thank your team for their hard work. Whether you’re looking to host a cozy indoor event, explore the crisp winter air with outdoor adventures, or add a charitable touch to your festivities, winter team building activities can create memories that carry your team into the new year with renewed energy and unity. Let’s dive into some ideas that will make this December unforgettable for your team!
What Do Employees Value Most?
Employees are the most important part of any business. Without them, you have no one to make your product, sell your service, run your store, or help your customers. Keeping them satisfied and happy with their jobs is essential if you want to build a strong and devoted team.
Leveraging Charitable Events for Effective Team Building
Team building is like a never-ending adventure that helps a group of people become an effective and unstoppable team. In addition to having shared goals and objectives for work, team members must also establish trust, offer support, and value each other’s unique qualities and characteristics. To commit to this growth, teams must adopt effective team building methods.
Building Community At Work: Going Beyond the Surface
In the digital world, it’s easy to get disconnected and isolated from others. This is especially true when it comes to remote work. Disconnection can have huge consequences. A large report from The Engagement Institute found that disengaged workers cost businesses up to $550 billion a year.
From Talk to Action: Creating an Inclusive Culture at Work
Inclusivity and diversity have become very important topics for businesses in the past few years. Many are focusing on inclusivity because of appearance concerns, while others genuinely care about having an inclusive culture at work.
Investing in Employee Wellbeing Initiatives
Employee wellbeing has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years, and for good reason—it can have a huge impact on your business. Focusing on employee wellbeing initiatives can be a great way to boost employee engagement and motivation, which can help with your bottom line.
Social Purpose: What It Is & Why Your Business Needs It
In the past, businesses could get by if they had a great product or service. However, modern consumers are increasingly looking for companies that care about social issues and have a positive impact. According to a 2019 Aflac survey, 77% of consumers are motivated to purchase from companies committed to making the world better. Social purpose now plays a huge role in the decisions of consumers, and businesses need to accommodate that. The shift in consumer behavior has propelled the concept of social purpose to the forefront of business strategies.
15 Icebreakers & Get To Know You Team Building Activities
Get to Know Each Other as People, Not Just Professionals. We’re all so much more than our job titles. We have interests that may have drawn each of us to our roles and helped us excel within them. A common challenge at work is the lack of opportunity for employees to connect with their colleagues beyond just their job duties. This can lead to a limited sense of connection among the team. But there is a solution: get to know you team building activities. There are easy and fun team building icebreaker activities that can help you and your team bond and get to know each other as more than just co-workers.
A Guide to Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
When you think of work-related skills and soft skills, things like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and initiative probably come to mind. While those are all important, there is another skill that often gets overlooked — emotional intelligence in the workplace.
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