Team Building

Organizational Behavior BUS 318

Dana LeFleur

September 12, 2011

It is well-known that teambuilding and motivational skills are of crucial importance in business and the leadership role in particular. Mangers and leaders must be effective team builders and motivators to be able to achieve their business aims and get the best out of people. The skills needed in both these areas should be practiced and improved upon a constant basis to ensure they help build and maintain effective and efficient teams. In this paper we will define team building and motivation,

What is team building and motivation? Team building and motivation refers to a wide range of activities designed for improving team performance. Team building is pursued via a variety of practices, and can range from simple bonding exercises to complex simulations and multi-day team building retreats designed to develop a team (including group assessment and group-dynamic games), usually falling somewhere in between. It generally sits within the theory and practice of organizational development, but can also be applied to sports teams, school groups, and other contexts. Team building is not to be confused with "team recreation" that consists of activities for teams that are strictly recreational. Teambuilding is an important factor in any environment, its focus is to specialize in bringing out the best in a team to ensure self development, positive communication, leadership skills and the ability to work closely together as a team to problem solve. Work environments tend to focus on individuals and personal goals, with reward & recognition singling out the achievements of individual employees. "How to create effective teams is a challenge in every organization. Team building can also refer to the process of selecting or creating a team from scratch.

Organizations are essentially about people working together and yet so often they fail to capitalize upon the full potential of this. A team can...