- 96% of leaders state lack of collaboration/ineffective communication for failures at work
- 25% of employees search outside of their own department for information and knowledge
- 60% of employees agree that they do not receive enough feedback from management
- 5.9%-the average percent of teams who talk about daily goals
- 67% believe open communication with colleagues could help them do their job better
Team Building: What is it + Why you should be doing it
The phrase “team building” has been around for decades but most still fail to see the importance or even the point behind it. If you were to ask, to most people the goal of team building would be to lessen drama/disagreements, smooth out differences and to create friendships between co-workers. What if we told you that team building measures could improve communication, assist in handling of work place conflict, encourage trust and also encourage collaboration? We are not talking about your run of the mill trust-fall exercises. Team building exercises that bring to light individual strengths and weaknesses, problem solving, team collaboration and communication could improve all the things listed above and so much more. Need more convincing that team building is for and should be used by everyone? Here are some facts: