Team building
Team building is also known as team composition and is the selection and bringing together of different people. The aim is also to achieve specific goals. Accordingly, team building is also about developing goal-oriented skills within the formed group.
Team building: the advantages
In team building, there are various measures, games, methods and exercises that aim to achieve the following:
- Promoting team development
- Optimization of team collaboration
- Improving the ability to work in a team
- Increasing the team spirit
- Strengthening the resilience of the team
- Expansion of colleague cohesion
Traditionally, team-building measures are carried out as part of a team event. There are no limits to creativity. For example, brain games, sporting activities or even team trips can be organized over several days.
Team building is not the same as team bonding
The term team bonding is often mistakenly used in this context. Although the objectives of the two methods are identical, the terms should be considered separately.
Team building is about achieving goals together or solving tasks. Positive experiences of success in the team are therefore important here, which weld the group together. Team bonding, on the other hand, involves spending leisure time together and relaxing.
The 5 phases
It is clear that a team is not created in a single day. Quite the opposite: it takes a process, so to speak. This process should turn a group of people into a team. For this reason, there is a so-called 5-phase model, which is also known as the “team clock”. This shows that a team grows together within the following 5 phases:
- Orientation phase (forming)
- Confrontation phase (Storming)
- Cooperation phase (norming)
- Growth phase (Performing)
- Resolution phase (adjourning)
It is recommended that exercises for successful team building are geared towards the different phases and coordinated accordingly.
