If a company’s going
to choose once a year just to have a fun day, have a
team-building fun day, great, that’s better than
nothing.
Whether it works and whether they get anything out of
it, is a risk, its team-building by chance as opposed
to team-building by design. i.e. we discuss with you
in detail your requirments, then design and deliver an
event to meet those needs.
Certainly if we’ve worked for clients two or three
times you start to know what they want, you understand
their company, where they’re going, their staff,
and of course each team-building event builds on the
last team-building event.
If you think about a car, it’ll come with a service
history, a service book, a service requirement. A six
thousand mile service is different to a twelve thousand
mile service which may be different to a cam belt service
at say, sixty thousand miles – it’s all different.
You don’t have a series of six thousand mile services
or twelve thousand mile services it is the same with
team-building events, if it was on a car, it would not
get the service, the attention, the nessary parts changed,
or the service required.
An on-going programme allows us to do this. It also
allows you to see a change – a beginning, a middle
and an end – and then you will see the benefits
back at work.
You can do a fun team-building event and maybe somebody
will pick up on it, maybe they won’t; maybe they’ll
go back to work and make a change, maybe they won’t,
but if you run a structured programme where we might
see the clients before, then we run the event, then we
go back afterwards and we say ‘ Right, what did
you learn from the event? What can you change at work?’
Then we go back to the workplace and check on the changes,
or put something in place so they do change, because
the company, at the end of the day, has written a cheque,
an actual cash cheque, and wants value. It’s not
unusual, for clients that we work with to get five to
ten times’ benefit on the cheque that they’ve
written us and, frankly, I think they should, if you
get a good team-building event program.
Don’t forget that team-building with facilitation
has tax benefits.
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