The Importance of Team Building in Modern Workplaces

Team building is more than just a corporate buzzword; it's an essential practice for fostering collaboration, enhancing communication and boosting productivity in today's diverse workplaces. Companies that invest in regular team-building activities experience improved morale, reduced turnover and a more engaged workforce.

In the modern world, people are not afraid to move jobs and change their careers. That sense of community and 'team' within your workforce is crucial for staff retention. Currently only 9% of the UK workforce feel enthusiastic about their job, leaving a large proportion of employees likely to move on. 54% of employees are more likely to stay in their jobs if they have a sense of belonging, which team development can create.

We live in the information age or the work from home era, we have people spread all over the country and in person meetings happen few and far between. Team building can help team members get to know those team members in which they are speaking to on a daily basis on technology but in person.

Communication often takes place via technology in the modern workplace, but how would your team communicate without this use of technology? Do you think technology causes conflict in a workplace? Is technology a cause of a conflict in your workplace? Team building is crucial to helping team members connect with colleagues they communicate with daily through technology but rarely meet in person.

Team building can happen face to face or online, however it is important that it is engaging all members of the team and there is

no distractions, which is why team building face to face can bond teams together more and more. Less than 33% of remote teams invest in team building activities. Getting the balance of both in person and online team building is very important to ensure you get the best out of Team Building, to develop your team to its peak performance.