Creating a Dynamic Team

Corporate team building programs utilize a variety of activities that are structured to improve the overall team performance.  Bonding exercises enhance trust between employees, and some of the team building meetings take place over weekend retreats.  These activities work for all kinds of teams, not just those in the boardrooms of Wall Street.  This is important in all environments wherein a group of people must work together.  They encourage communication, development of the individual members, skills of leadership and the ability for people to work together closely as parts of the whole.

The history of the concept of building teams, that focus on this “whole” rather than individual achievements, is long.  Sigmund Freud had a theory of group dynamics, as did many others that followed him.  Research was done early on in the 1900′s, at the Center for Research in Group Dynamics, and those studies have influenced the theories of today.  Business training focuses now on the team effort, and how that affects and contributes to the success of the company.  During the 1970′s ideas and theories that were based on the studies of teams during WWII were used for corporate cultures.

Before this time, individual successes were more celebrated than those of collective teams.  But the United States began to rethink these ideas, and companies became focused on building strong teams, and the implementations for rewarding the team, became the focus.  Firms were called in, who specialized in training teams, and in turning them into successful and cooperative organizations.  These consultants will generally interact with the teams just a bit, just enough to get them started on their way of building relationships and trusts with one another.

They assess, and make their recommendations about how they see the team or the company can go about improving on their ideas and practices.  This is particularly important in this day and age, when companies may be struggling to make their bottom line.  Two heads are better than one, and a team can take on more than an individual can.  Everyone takes care of each other, and the result is that everyone takes care of the company.

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