Individual expertise is no longer sufficient. The modern organization requires communication, trust, and collaboration. High-performing teams are the outcome of team building. Action Teams, the first in corporate team building in Singapore, focuses on and empowers team collaboration, provides the necessary corporate team building activities, and bridges the gap.
By fostering tailored-designed and facilitated in-person elements, Action Teams fosters teams working toward underlying corporate values and collaboration.
Realizing the Value Of Team Building Advocacy
Team building is often misperceived as mere fun. However, the potential of team building activities is an organizational development tool that can transform the structure of an organization. Team building should have purpose and design in order for the participants to gain authentic working insight on teams, leadership, and breakdown problem-solving at work.
Effective team building provides the following communication, trust, accountability, collaboration alignment. Team building requires collaboration and in doing so, each participant of the team is able to gain insight on the organizations purpose through the team’s behaviors that are aligned towards the outcome.
Reflection on Experiential Learning by Action Teams
At Action Teams, the focus is on learning by doing. Instead of presenting theoretical concepts and lectures, their programs focus on activities that require participation, collaboration, and reflection.
Each of the activities is designed to replicate real work scenarios. Teams have to strategize, communicate, pivot and execute the tasks on hand, just like they would in their jobs. This way, learning is relevant, and it sticks.
The learning is done in person, making space for real engagement, authentic human connections, and fostering trust, and cohesion in the team.
Experiential Learning Outdoors as a Team
The outdoor experiences focus on mental and physical challenges that require teams to collaborate and take shared responsibility. These challenges build resilience, instill confidence, and trust in the teams.
Corporate Grand Prix: In this event, teams have to design and construct their own push-kart before racing it. It requires a lot of planning, controlled role assignments, and time management. This event is a great way to showcase the outcome of collaboration.
“A” Mazing Challenge: The teams develop their own strategy and approach for traversing a multi-faceted maze. The challenge illustrates the value of trust and the role of adaptive leadership, along with the importance of coordination.
Pipeline Supply Chain: The participants face challenges of the operational world as they work on building a pipeline system to transport ‘goods’ and ‘resources’ in an optimal and efficient manner. The activity emphasizes on building teamwork, working with processes and operational problem solving.
Amazing Hunts and Heritage Hunts: In these time-bound interactive hunts, teams race against each other to complete a series of tasks at different locations. The hunts promote a diverse, adaptive and participative working synergetic environment.
These outdoor activities create a unique setting that eases the social structure and promotes organic collaboration and teamwork.
Engaging Indoor Team Building Programmes
Indoor set activities for events require coordination and structure, for which Action Teams deploys their customized indoor team building activities for efficient collaboration and learning.
Ice Breakers and Energisers: To start these sessions, these activities create a friendly tone while taking away the seriousness of the meeting. They assist the participants to create bonds to get comfortable, and promote connection and engagement.
Interactive Team Challenges: These team tasks and problem-solving games are designed to mimic challenges that may arise in a work environment. They give teams the opportunity to identify the different patterns of communication, decision making and leadership which can facilitate or hinder the completion of a set goal.
Collaborative Activities: Creative hands-on activities and challenges enable teams to see the value in differing viewpoints and sharpen their skills in innovative problem solving and working collaboratively.
Indoor activities are most suited to the corporate programme and to meetings and conferences for corporate offsites when space and time are limited.
Organisational Measurable Outcomes
Team building through Action Teams produces outcomes that exceed the benefits that are typically associated with the intervention.
Communication in Teams Is Improved: Participants learn to express their ideas in a speaking manner while listening also, and work through challenges in a constructive manner.
Team Relationships are Strengthened: Experience working collaboratively is a rich source of the development of trust, and respect and is the basis for developing the sense of working together at the same level.
The Potential for Improved Leadership is Enhanced: The activities create the opportunity for leadership, for support, and for flexibility to change in the direction of the goals and objectives, enhanced leadership behaviors are noted at all levels.
Improved levels of Engagement and Productivity: When teams work together harmoniously they enjoy a high level of motivation and are committed to the goals and objectives of the organization.
Each of these outcomes is a contributor to enhancing the culture in the workplace and sustaining the organization at a high level of activity for the long term.
Tailored Activities for Team Building
Action Teams understands that every organization has its particular objectives and challenges. Action Teams activities are tailored to fit these objectives, whether they are to enhance collaboration, communication, or the expression of organizational values.
Action Teams provides experienced facilitators to support the planning and delivering of each programme to ensure that the programme is purposeful, engaging, and meets the organizational needs. It is this level of tailoring that provides relevance and impact for each team.
Concluding remarks
Team strengthening activities are a tactical alignment of people and culture. Well configured and executed activities help drive value by refining outcomes teams are able to achieve. Action Teams provides value through genuine, customized, in-person team building activities and goes beyond preliminary levels of engagement by solidifying trust, synergy, and elevated performance.
By implementing enhancing activities, Action Teams provides organizations with the tools to build teams that are durable, interconnected, and able to thrive in the modern workplace.
