Team Building Article: Team Building is About Your Leadership

Guy Farmer

Unconventional Training

Team Building and Effective Communication

Unconventional Training

The standard approach to team building workshops or seminars helps people bond socially but often overlooks the deeper things that bring people together like empathy and understanding. As a leader, you get to decide whether you and your organization are ready to build great teams. Here are some key questions you can ask yourself to improve the results you get from team building.

Empathy

Do you give people the opportunity to deeply understand other people’s points of view and empathize with others?

Listening

Do people genuinely listen to each other and let the other person say whatever they need to say? Do they do it without interruptions, comments, punishment, jokes or advice-giving?

Long-Term Commitment

Is your organization firmly committed to helping people build teams long-term? Is there a culture of team building that starts at top leadership?

Meaningful Interaction

Do people interact with each other on more meaningful level? Do they move past superficial conversation to really getting to know each other?

Supportive Team Members

Are people there for each other no matter what happens? Do they help each other because they genuinely care?

Think about how your team building philosophy reflects the ideas we’ve talked about here. Team building can yield much greater results for your organization if you move beyond short-term efforts and shift to activities that are aimed at the values, culture and functioning of the organization. What will you do to get started?

Take care,

Guy

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Why continue doing the same old things when some basic shifts will get you much better results? I enjoy writing professional development articles that help people live happier lives at work.

Team Building is About Your Leadership