Discover the Importance of Team Building

Team building activities have come a long way from the trust falls of the 1970s. More and more, industry research and experience have proven that team building can develop and strengthen key skills needed in the workplace. We’ve broken down the benefits below, along with recommendations for specific experiences offered by our resort to accomplish each goal, ultimately leading to your organization’s long-range success.

IMPROVED COMMUNICATION

Just as in personal relationships, professional relationships only work through clear and consistent communication. Team building experiences help break down barriers or silos that can often exist between different roles and individuals as participants gain confidence in communicating with each other in a low-stakes, informal setting. Post-exercise, your team walks away with the ability to take this more efficient and transparent way of interacting into their daily work life.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Scavenger Hunt | Team members work together to decipher clues, complete activities and find treasures around the property to earn points and claim victory.

Strengthened Trust & Emotional Safety

There is true vulnerability in having to rely on colleagues. Team building activities that have participants working together in small groups toward a common goal help establish and deepen trust. In turn, this creates an atmosphere in which team members feel comfortable making themselves heard and taking calculated risks without fear of being judged.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Culinary Competitions | Personalities come together — just like the fresh flavors in our Guac Off, Cake Off or Chili Cook Off — for a delicious outcome.

increased collaboration & productivity

There is a direct line that can be drawn between employee productivity and your organization’s bottom line — and collaboration is the key to supercharging their efficiency and output. Team building exercises can reveal individuals’ strengths and areas for improvement, so responsibilities can be strategically assigned based on this knowledge. In the end, this restructuring can have your team collaborating at optimal levels to successfully hit goals.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Boat Float | Teams are provided with some buoyant (and some not-so-buoyant) materials and tasked with building a “boat” for one “captain” to navigate across the pool.

boosted morale & engagement

Injecting a fun element into your group gathering goes a long way toward showing attendees how much they are valued by your organization. This effort has an outsized impact on increasing job satisfaction. And happy workers tend to stick around, adding to your employee retention levels and profitability. After all, it is far more economical to hold onto the experienced staff you have versus recruiting and training new.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Group Games | Playtime and nostalgia unleash pure pleasure. Your team will enjoy some friendly competition participating in cornhole, pickleball and more popular games and no-skills-needed sports.

advanced creativity & innovation

Where one person can initiate a fresh idea, a group can help evolve it into something even bigger and better. This is especially true when you bring together team members who offer diverse perspectives. Team building unleashes this type of out-of-the-box thinking to hit exciting, all-new levels that can be brought back to the office.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Glow Golf | Move aside Greg Norman and Robert Trent Jones, Jr.! In this exercise, each team designs its own brilliant mini-golf course to play in the dark.

enhanced problem solving

In our day-to-day tasks, we encounter myriad variables and challenges — some in our control; some not. Through consultation and collaboration with colleagues, we can begin to skillfully unravel them. Ultimately, this trains our brains to follow new paths to complete projects in the most efficient and successful ways imaginable.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Chef’s Mystery Basket | Team members don’t know what ingredients they will receive until the grand unveiling, when they need to unite and whip up a satisfying solution.

conflict reduction

There isn’t a team on Earth that gets along perfectly all of the time. Personalities clash. Individual goals can run at odds with each other. And differing work styles and approaches can cause friction. Fortunately, team building experiences can unpack and resolve many of these pain points.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Wine & Zen | It’s difficult to hang onto negative feelings when you’re in Child’s Pose or swirling and sipping a fine varietal. This instructor-led experience has your team enjoying a Vinyasa flow class and a glass of wine in a calm environment to build camaraderie.

positive corporate culture

Employees can take pride in knowing they work for an organization that gives back. That’s why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives — you can read Investopedia’s explanation of CSR here — are a win-win-win. The first triumph is for the non-profit your effort helps, the second is for the employees providing the feel-good sweat equity, and the third is for your company through staff retention.

Recommended Team Building Experience: Philanthropic Projects | We offer two different activities under this category. You can help the food-insecure with packaged and canned goods donated through Charity Putt-Putt or give children gifts of joy with Build a Bike.

Still wondering how team building can benefit your organization? Our expert event planners are happy to share even more insights — as well as work with you on ideas and experiences that can be customized for your group and goals. You can start the conversation by submitting your RFP on our meeting planning page.