Are You Looking For Corporate Team-Building That Goes Deeper Than The Typical Team Outing?

Are tensions within your team impacting morale and threatening productivity? Is your company in need of team-building that is not only fun and engaging but able to fundamentally improve communication and connection? Do you wish there was team-building available that combined the principles of play and problem-solving with evidence-based therapeutic interventions for maximum benefit?

As a manager or team leader, you may be concerned that your work team isn’t as cohesive as you would like them to be. Perhaps there are personality conflicts or workplace politics that have divided them. If cliques have formed, this underlying tension might be contributing to workplace drama that’s difficult to address. Whether virtual or in person, when the climate within your workplace becomes toxic, you may be struggling to retain people who are leaving in search of a better work environment.

Maybe Your Team Just Needs A Tune-Up

As a team leader, you might not want to wait for problems to get out of hand or for productivity to plummet before considering some quality team-building. By being proactive, you may be able to avoid workplace drama, unwanted gossip, and cliques from forming in the first place. As we often say in therapy, when the “check engine light” comes on, you don’t wait until your car is on fire on the side of the road to do something about it.

The good news is that therapy-based team-building can help ensure you cultivate a happy, productive team that enjoys coming to work. With our tried-and-true team bonding activities designed to nurture teamwork and address conflict, your employees will feel more deeply connected and empowered to collaborate creatively with each other.

The Evolving Workplace Has Challenged Team Cohesion

As corporate leaders, it has never been easy for us to foster a sense of unity within our teams, even in the best of circumstances. Trying to meld different personalities, working styles, beliefs, and philosophies has never been easy. But unfortunately, today’s ever-changing work culture has made it more difficult for us to focus on team bonding.

With an estimated 43 percent of employees working remotely at least some of the time, team cohesion has become increasingly challenging.^[1] Although working from home offers our employees flexibility and better work-life balance, it can come at a price. According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2018, “Perceived workplace isolation can lead to as much as a 21 percent drop in performance.”^[2]

The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard on our employees psychologically, leading them to feel withdrawn and isolated from their coworkers. In addition to the stressors caused by living through the shutdown, they may find they’re missing the human interaction that was plentiful before the Pandemic. And, perhaps, your team’s social acumen may have suffered.

Team-Building Has Never Been More Important

Even though we realize our employees need to be reminded they are a member of a larger team, we don’t always know the best way to achieve this. If we sense there may be dissension in the ranks, we may think a team outing will be sufficient to ease the tension, not realizing that scheduling one “fun day” may not be enough. It won’t resolve the underlying conflicts and dissatisfaction that may be percolating beneath the surface.

Finding a therapeutic approach to team-building offers something far more effective and beneficial for your employees. Whether team-building activities will keep your group on track or help them address issues with communication and conflict, connecting your team on a deeper level will promote productivity and boost morale.

Therapy-Based Team-Building Can Bring Your Employees Closer Together

As a business leader, it’s up to you to keep your team motivated, interconnected, and inspired. When interpersonal challenges arise between team members, it can impact the entire team, leading to conflict and productivity loss. Team-building with an emphasis on play-based therapeutic principles has been created to benefit coworkers by applying effective group therapy interventions to the workplace.

Therapy-based team-building activities are designed to help your employees improve interpersonal communication by breaking down silos and building connections. By learning how to work more collaboratively with each other through fun, play-oriented activities, our team-building courses foster creativity and spark innovation which will, in turn, develop more courageous and compelling leadership skills.

We Will Develop A Curriculum Based On Your Needs

Our facilitators can give your team a safe place to bond, share, and have a meaningful experience while also remaining engaged through hands-on experiential activities. As therapists, our expertise is conducive to helping your team navigate conflict or help reinforce what’s working. When your team learns how to better support each other, they will not only achieve more together but also enjoy the process.

Once we explore what your team-building needs are, we will customize the activities and leadership skills we will incorporate into your training. We offer training as short as two hours up to a full eight hours. Your team-building facilitator will join you at your location and the number of people who can attend will depend upon the curriculum you choose.

Our Team-building Activities Are Experiential And Engaging

The team bonding activities we have developed will help your team work together to actively solve problems in real time. Through play-based exercises, they’ll get the chance to get out of left-brain thinking and become more creative, collaborative, and vulnerable with each other. The immersive experience we offer is committed to ensuring that each team member is interested in what’s happening.

We use experiential activities to take traditional team-building concepts deeper. Tough topics are incorporated with play so each member of your team will walk away feeling re-energized and inspired. By implementing everything from Tinkertoys, Legos, board games, playdough, and art activities, the activities we offer will keep your team engaged while simultaneously offering fun and insight.

Imagine what your business could achieve if everyone was fully engaged at work, felt supported, and trusted each other—they would be more adaptable to change, empowered to add value, and able to make decisions with speed and conviction. Through our team-building and leadership skills courses, you can create the workplace culture you’ve always dreamed of.

But You May Wonder Whether Team-Building Is Right For You…

Do we really need a therapist to facilitate our leadership and team-building activities?

We understand that there are a variety of team-building and leadership bonding activities to choose from and you may be wondering what the benefit would be of having a facilitator with a background in psychotherapy. What makes our team-building courses unique is that by using our psychology and human skills, we can take traditional business concepts deeper so they are more humanistic and person-centered. Your team will feel heard, seen, and valued.

Can’t we just base our team-building training and activities on a book about leadership or communication?

Although self-help books related to corporate leadership and communications can be great teaching tools, you don’t want to forget the interactive, experiential element. Successful team-building happens when everyone is engaged and participating in the activity together. When you assign a book for your employees to read in advance of an in-house team-building event, not everyone will likely have read the whole thing. Additionally, reviewing a book together may be perceived as lecturing to your team rather than supporting them and fostering connection.

Why is the therapy-based team-building training you offer worthwhile?

Our therapy-based team-building applies the same evidence-based curriculum and therapeutic principles we utilize in our practice to the work environment. By introducing your employees to tried-and-true interventions that benefit our clients, they’ll come away from team-building feeling more connected to their coworkers, open to new perspectives, and with a clearer insight into how their team interacts. After all, if we’re bringing Legos, tinker toys, play dough, and art supplies, how will it not be fun and worthwhile?

Let Us Help Your Corporate Team Find Ways Of Working Better Together

Team-building doesn’t have to be boring or uninspired—allowing your employees the opportunity to be hands-on, playful, and engaged with each other can strengthen their connection. If you would like to find out more about the team-building courses we offer, please visit our contact page.

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[2] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/235811/end-traditional-manager.aspx