Teambuilding is More Important than Ever in Today’s Recession

February 9th, 2009 | Posted by: brandon

I read a great posting today at the Create Learning Teambuilding Blog. The authors point is an excellent one. With today’s instability in business and with the uncertainty of jobs, it creates instability in business, and companies need teambuilding now more than ever. Here is his posting:

Most of today’s organizations function in a team setting. These may be cross

functional or functional internal teams, client service teams made from internal
and external service providers, or other member compositions. Stability is
an essential component to the success of these teams. Why? Because teams go
through many stages before they become high performing — namely: forming,
storming, norming and finally, performing. Stabilty makes teams more
efficient and effective at doing their jobs.

In today’s recessionary, lay-off laden environment, stability is simply not a
reality. Does this mean organizations are going to suffer from less efficient
and less effective teams? Most likely. Now, more than ever, organizational
leadership must prioritize team building amongst it’s highest goals or risk
suffering an even greater setback from the loss of team members and the
environment of uncertainty we are in.

-Teambuilding Western New York Blog

I would also like to add a few points to this:

  1. Teambuilding can also boost morale and can increase employee commitment and confidence in their company. I believe that by managers and business owners making the decision to have teambuilding programs conducted for their teams, that employees will be able to renew confidence and commitment in these times of uncertainty, thereby increasing productivity and success.
  2. Business never is successful when everyone is just out for their own gain. In this economic downturn, people tend to fend for themselves, which means businesses NEED to pull their teams together.
  3. Teambuilding is FUN! If nothing else, companies should conduct teambuilding programs just to escape from the normal stresses of life!

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  1. Team Building is fun yes. Although we must also exercise caution in just buying fun. There have been many incidences of this lately by companies like AIG and others that tool bailout money then went on corporate retreats for the point of “Fun”.
    In economic uncertain times companies need to have a value based approach that will net them to greatest gain for their training and development dollars.
    The companies that invest in effective team development and consulting will be to companies that succeed when the market returns to better days.
    The amazing thing is that many companies and sectors of the economy are doing great.
    here is post that covers some of those topics;
    http://tinyurl.com/cbfc2g

    Overall great additions to the post!
    Team Building can increase moral and that is a great thing!

    Posted by michael cardus on February 9, 2009 at 1:09 am | Permalink

  2. Thanks for the post Michael! Yes I agree, we must be careful with just buying “fun.” Thank you for the comment, and the link to the article you posted as well!

    Posted by bhensinger on February 10, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink

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