Articles on team building, employee engagement, & more

Boost employee engagement with hundreds of team building articles written by the experts. Explore up-to-date news & advice to build the perfect team.

Home Resources Blog

Filter by Category

Latest team building blog articles

Featured Image For Only a Polaroid Can Tell This Story Instantly Team Building Post

Only a Polaroid Can Tell This Story Instantly

I’m Joyce Ngo – public relations enthusiast, student, and currently TeamBonding marketing intern. This summer as part of my internship I will be focusing on social media and bringing the experience of the events and programs we do to the mass public from my perspective. You’ll get a behind the scenes view of what happens before the event and the preparation that goes into it. I’ll be posting blog posts about my observations and experience at each event. Basically, you’ll get to see what Joyce the Intern sees, no fluff. This time I went to a Polaroid Scavenger Hunt.

Featured Image For Go Team Explorer | High Tech Team Building Team Building Post

Go Team Explorer | High Tech Team Building

Armed with Smartphones, iPads or Tablets as your tour guides, this high tech tablet or smartphone scavenger hunt is a team building program with an unconventional twist.

Featured Image For Competition Drives Us Team Building Post

Competition Drives Us

They say there’s nothing like a little friendly competition to bring people together. After over 20 years of creating, hosting, and experiencing team building activities, we have proof to back that up. People love a little friendly competition, so much so that most of our programs feature some competative elements.

Featured Image For Avoid Team Building Strategies that Don’t Work Team Building Post

Avoid Team Building Strategies that Don’t Work

CNBC has 11 great tips to help you make sure that your team building activities don’t have the unintended consequence of pulling your team of employees apart.

Featured Image For To Be a Team is To Be Selfless Team Building Post

To Be a Team is To Be Selfless

“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”- Mike Krzyzewski Sometimes all a team needs is to be inspired to be the best they can be. Team bonding quotes have the power to motivate a team and lead them to success.

Featured Image For 7 Team Building Tools that Foster Effective Teamwork Team Building Post

7 Team Building Tools that Foster Effective Teamwork

Whether your entire team typically works under the same roof or you’re spread out among remote offices (or coffee shops), you must work together to reach a common goal. From conference call meetings to e-mail agendas, it can be difficult to foster effective teamwork. Have no fear! We’re here to help. Start using the team building tools listed under each of the topics below and your team will begin working together like never before.

Featured Image For The Importance of Teamwork Team Building Post

The Importance of Teamwork

“Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.” – Andrew Carnegie Teamwork is necessary for success in any business, and the right quote can inspire a team to work together.

Featured Image For Charity Spotlight | Long Way Home Team Building Post

Charity Spotlight | Long Way Home

“Long Way Home began operations in the municipality of San Juan Comalapa, in the indigenous highlands of west-central Guatemala in 2004, with a grassroots community development strategy to bring local residents together to learn about eco-friendly living, appropriate sustainable technologies, and improved waste management solutions.” – Our Story, Long Way Home

Featured Image For Kevin Kehoe | New American Painter Team Building Post

Kevin Kehoe | New American Painter

Meet Kevin Kehoe, an artist who loves capturing the beautiful simplicities of Utah’s Heber Valley. He is a painter and photographer. One of his photographs has been featured as a backdrop on the Utah location page on TeamBonding.com! (more…)

Featured Image For 5 Elements of Cooperative Learning | Help Your Team Learn Considerably More Team Building Post

5 Elements of Cooperative Learning | Help Your Team Learn Considerably More

Results are very important to companies and team leaders, but how team members interact with each other to achieve results is often a neglected aspect of managing a team. (more…)

Featured Image For Lucky 7 Team Building Post

Lucky 7

Happy 7th Anniversary of employment to two very hardworking people here at TeamBonding! We want to take a moment to appreciate their nonstop efforts over the years. Thank you Nanci and Seu!! (more…)

Featured Image For Avoid New Employee BORE-ientation Team Building Post

Avoid New Employee BORE-ientation

According to the training firm Leadership IQ, “46% of rookies wash out in their first 18 months.” This was found by a study done over 3 years of 20,000 new hires. This could be due to the fact that those new hires are not clearly told what they were hired to do or what their goals should be for the first six months and the first year.[lede] (more…)

Featured Image For The Art of Possibility | Improv Tips Team Building Post

The Art of Possibility | Improv Tips

Professional actress and teacher Vicky Saye Henderson gives a TEDx Talk on the importance of play. (more…)

Featured Image For Goodbye, TeamBonding Team Building Post

Goodbye, TeamBonding

Almost exactly one year ago, I started in my position at TeamBonding. Coming from a job in financial services and still being fresh out of college, working in the corporate events industry was a big (and welcome) change for me. From the start, I knew that this position was going to be a great way to understand the responsibilities of a cross-functional marketing and sales role, and also give me the chance to be a part of a tight-knit team.

Featured Image For Don’t Let Stormy Weather Stand in the Way of Team Building Team Building Post

Don’t Let Stormy Weather Stand in the Way of Team Building

Whether you’re facing feet upon feet of snow or unpredictable bursts of rain, keeping in touch with your team or planning an event can be tricky.

Featured Image For And the Winner Is… Team Building Post

And the Winner Is…

We have finally drawn the winner’s name for our Guess that Bobblehead quiz. And the winner is… (more…)

Featured Image For Day 2 of Imex America | Constructive Team Building & Celebrating Diversity Team Building Post

Day 2 of Imex America | Constructive Team Building & Celebrating Diversity

Day two of Imex America was a success! After an incredibly inspiring keynote, the show floor opened this morning to a large group of bustling, eager attendees. And creativity was not short on supply today either! (more…)

Featured Image For Savory Team Building That Works Team Building Post

Savory Team Building That Works

Complete your next company dinner with sweet sangria history and some tasty competition! (more…)

Featured Image For Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off Team Building Post

Hot-Cha-Cha Chili Cook-Off

Do you and your team have the perfect ingredients for the best chili recipe? You’ll put your cooking skills to the test with this spicy team building program. Get out your pots and pans and start cooking! (more…)

Featured Image For Catapult to Success Team Building Post

Catapult to Success

Does your team have what it takes to (literally) get an idea off the ground? (more…)

Featured Image For Nominication | How to Improve Communication Skills with Cocktails Team Building Post

Nominication | How to Improve Communication Skills with Cocktails

The word “nominication“ (a combination of the Japanese verb ‘nomimasu’ (to drink) and the English word ‘communication’) stands for after work drinking parties.

…

17

Check out the latest TeamBonding podcast.

Get ideas, inspiration and best practices from across the globe.

Drop your email for expert employee engagement tips.

Less drama? Greater productivity and job satisfaction? TeamBonding is here to help you build a stronger and happier team. Subscribe to get one-of-kind insights and news from our team building gurus and start boosting employee engagement today.