1.1 Explain The Importance Of Team Building

Team building can be pursued through a variety of activities, ranging from the simple and basic, such as one off bonding exercises before or during meetings, to complex, multi-day simulations, trainings or retreats carefully organised by professional associations or companies specialising in such programmes. These latter full scale team building exercises or less intensive variations thereof may include seminars, workshops or conferences. Many team build ideas fall somewhere within this range and can also include an internally planned day out doing active outdoor pursuits such as paintball, rope courses or orienteering. Team building can also be achieved through healthy competition, such as baseball or soccer games organised against other companies or organisations; or through events such as community service projects, held for good socially worthy causes.

Teambuilding is now widely recognised and accepted as being a significant and workable variable in many, if not most, group environments where performance is dependent on how well the group unit works together. The focus of most team building endeavours is to bring out the best within the team so as to ensure

This is because work environments generally tend to focus heavy just on individuals and their personal goals in accordance with their roles within the organisation. Rewards and recognition often single out individual employees and their own achievements, rather than recognising the interdependent workers as a whole unit. Creating effective teams, or building a good team as it were, with an emphasis on larger organisational aims rather than just individual accomplishment, is therefore a challenge in many