Why Taking on a Team Building Challenge Might be Good for Your Business
Corporate challenges and team building can seem like less of a priority when times are tight. But the people who work for your business are your greatest asset. They are the keystone of your customer service, your productivity, and your efficiency. And if you want to encourage collaboration and get the best from your team, a corporate challenge can be incredibly effective. Whether it’s trekking to the K2 base camp or walking Snowdon coast to coast.
So, what are the primary benefits of involving your team in a corporate challenge?
Five Reasons Why a Corporate Challenge Could be Good for Your Business
1. Team spirit and collaboration
Although the teams within most businesses are increasingly interdependent, there can often be a sense of segregation. If there isn’t an open ‘them and us’ mindset, there is plenty of room for petty misunderstanding. When you bring members from different teams together to tackle a physical challenge, those barriers are frequently dropped. Because it doesn’t matter whether you’re working in IT or HR, when you’re trekking to the Everest Base Camp! And when those barriers fall, it can aid collaboration and a create a wider sense of cohesion and belonging. Which will hopefully continue once everyone is out of the wilds and safely back in the office.
2. Identify future leaders and new skills
In the workaday week, it can be hard to truly let your employees shine. Which can often result in promotions going to those with the loudest voices. Rather than those with the most appropriate skills. True leaders don’t shout. They guide. And help others to bring out their best. In a challenge environment, leadership personalities come to the fore. Watch to see who keeps up the other’s spirits when halfway up the second of the Three Peaks. Look to see who’s most supportive. And if problems need to be solved, see who takes the lead. Creative thinking is one of the most under-valued business skills. And the softer skills are often overlooked. But they’re hugely important to your business. Especially in leadership roles.
3. Trust building
Trust can be a difficult thing to engender in the workplace. Especially between employees and managers. A corporate challenge that takes you away from the familiar, helps to break down natural barriers. Especially if the challenge lasts several days. If you see your boss with blistered feet and sweating alongside the rest of you, you start to see that they’re just as human as you are. Prolonged exposure has benefits of its own. But the shared sense of achievement at completing a challenge like scaling Kilimanjaro is incomparable.
4. A sense of achievement
The real beauty of corporate challenges is that you can help your team really see what they are capable of. It doesn’t really matter what the challenge is. But once you help a team member to take on something incredible, it will hugely influence their confidence. And research suggests that the more confident you feel, the more successful you will be at work.
5. A break from the norm
It’s really easy to get bogged down in the day to day at work. One day blends into another. Before long, you stop paying attention. A corporate challenge can bring in a new focus. And if you work with a charity, raising funds for a good cause while undergoing your challenge, you can gain a new sense of purpose.
Team building challenges have a reputation of being a little… lame. With panic room and paintballing scenarios, it can be hard for employees to truly engage. But when you take on a true corporate challenge that will physically test your employees while letting them experience something genuinely exciting and different, all while doing good, the engagement becomes real. And the ROI becomes measurable.
Find out more about arranging a corporate challenge with Choose a Challenge.
Call: 0203 773 4140
Email: team@chooseachallenge.com
