You can use team building activities to accomplish multiple tasks in the workplace. Team building strengthens professional relationships, improves employee morale and helps in building trust in employees. All very important things in the workplace. The activities you choose to have your employees participate in should set clear goals, dedicate time to spend with each employee individually to impart parity and trust, and make sure good communications are present all around.

We have compiled a few team building activities that will accomplish all of these goals, so feel free to use them and benefit from them.

Team building activities

Educational classes

This activity will benefit you in two ways. It will help your team’s cohesion, while benefiting your company overall. These can be classes such as communication classes, leadership classes and similar, or it can also be something closely related to your employees field of work.

Guest speakers

Similar to the previous activity, this one also accomplishes those two things. Simply hire a speaker that you think your employees would find interesting, helpful, motivational etc. Also, make sure you schedule the classes on work time, you don’t want to infringe upon your employees free time.

Volunteering

Asking employees to volunteer for a charity is a great way to foster teams and gives your employees the feeling of fulfillment for helping others. It may also serve as good PR for your company. Make sure you either let them volunteer on company time, or give them certain benefits or bonuses for doing it in their free time.

Retreats

Need we say more? Everyone likes retreats, interesting places, good food and good fun. This activity is often an employee favorite, and it is pretty clear why. Bonus points if you make the retreat valuable for the betterment of your company and business.

If you are wondering why you should do team buildings and how they may benefit your business, check out our article Benefits of Team-building.