Getting to Know Your Team

Effective teams trust each other, communicate clearly and openly, encourage creative problem solving, and work together well under time pressure. These high performing teams benefit from co-workers understanding and respecting each other. This does not happen overnight. It takes time to get know each other, their habits, likes and dislikes. But it is easier to work through challenges if you have developed a bond with your co-workers that transcends work alone.

Off-site team building gives companies an opportunity for co-workers and managers alike to get to know each other. Once you have laughed and worked together to solve a problem on a challenge course, your relationship has changed in a positive fashion. Back at the office, when faced with a problem, the personal relationship that was forged helps the team work together. It is no longer those people in accounting. It is Joe or Sally who helped me get through the spider web on the challenge course or spotted me when I was unsteady on the zig zag beam or came up with a creative solution to the all aboard game.

Matt Baker is Chief Adventure Officer of Terrapin Adventures.

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