Empower Your Team Through Team-Building Activities
As steady streams of news articles are announcing company layoffs around the nation, a constant buzz of employee chatter can be heard around many office water coolers… “Who will be next? Is my job in jeopardy? Where is our company headed now?”
None of these questions are productive. For employees, they stir up more fear and anxiety. For the overall good of the business, it slows down production and creativity. So, what can managers do to quell this nervousness and assure employees that they are an integral role to the company’s success in good times and in bad? Well, I came across an article I’d like to share that talks about team-building exercises for tough times. A lot of businesses may have the misconception that team-building exercises are merely superficial glue that hold groups together. However, the article’s author, Pat Olsen, does a great job at describing how these activities have changed – now being a platform for innovative thinking that can not only strengthen and empower groups within the company, but promote overall success.
Enjoy the read…
