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Friday 2 November 2018

Things To Do When Planning For A Team Building Adventure

By Patricia Parker


When you are a manager in a business or the one in charge of a project, you will have a hard time if the workers are united. They may be qualified but working together helps meet the target within a short period of time. A team building adventure is a good way to bring them together. Planning for one requires the following.

Knowing the needs of a business and workers is important as it will help you to know what target to achieve during the experience. As a manager, you already know some of the challenges faced by employees that affect their relations and productivity. Make a list of all these things and talk to some of the workers to know if there are any challenges you omitted.

The activities you are going to undertake should also be listed down. Going somewhere when you are not decided on what do is not advisable. You will spend a big part of the day choosing activities, and this will result in time wastage. Knowing what you are going to do on that particular day will also help the group members to prepare themselves in advance.

The destination you will choose is also important. For instance, if you have chosen hiking as the main activity of the day, you need to decide on the best place where you can do this. The surrounding areas should also be friendly and with beautiful views. This way the group members will not be bored during the trip. You can ask them for opinions.

You must also choose a day and make a schedule to follow during the endeavor. The weather forecast must be considered so that you can choose a time when the weather is friendly. The availability of your workers is also important. The schedule helps to ensure that you do not waste the whole day on irrelevant activities. A schedule makes the plan look official, and the workers will cooperate more.

Use of money without accounting for it can cost the business a lot of losses, and that is why a budget is required. Determine how much it is likely to cost you by listing all the requirements against their costs. These include transport, moderator fees, food, drinks and gate pass fees where applicable. The person in charge will be careful with his spending as he is limited by the budget.

When one of the group members is given the work of moderating the activities, he is denied the chance to mingle and create bonds with the rest of the group. The members may also not be comfortable as he is likely to order them around just the way he does at work. You hence need to look for a professional moderator who will control the group.

A good business manager must take time to evaluate the event to know if the set goals were met. He should hence try to interact with the employees and ask them what they liked or disliked about the activity. This can also be done by use of questionnaires. The response he gets should help him to plan in order to make the future activity more fun and relevant.




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