The business world has changed significantly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The structure of employment when it comes to contemporary workers is becoming progressively more focused, isolating, and cold. Although modern technology has made it feasible to be able to improve people’s production, successful human cooperation remains needed for long-standing organizational prosperity.

Team Building Activities Unify Team Members

Although people no longer need to be in the same place at the same time in order for communication to happen, there is still no substitute for in-person physical interactions to build relationships and team cohesiveness.  People become more than just impersonal names on email distribution lists.  They become partners and members of a team, united by working toward a common purpose. Employees become much more energized and capable of truly working together to accomplish shared goals.

In an progressively aggressive business world where thriving businesses must be responsive, resourceful, and also proficient at synergy so that they can leverage swiftly adjusting market conditions, smart organizations should really make the most of external and internal team development opportunities.  Unless individuals feel in tune with one another while carrying out work with each other to solve shared problems, companies will be ineffective, lethargic, and unwieldy as everyone pulls and pushes in multiple directions to achieve distinct objectives.

As companies have grown larger and more complex , many businesses have looked to the military as well as the pioneering history of bygone settlers for managerial inspiration. They saw that people who faced logistic and physical challenges together formed quick bonds of trust and developed effective problem-solving abilities as a team unit.  People became highly motivated to achieve group success for their team.

Covered Wagon Team Building

Opportunities for team building ideas have been adapted from these models so that they are applicable in the business world.  One very interesting and entertaining exercise involves building and driving a covered wagon. Usually, you will divide people into groups of 8 to 12 people and have them complete group assignments that are based on issues in the American Old West.

A covered wagon must be built by each team with specific technical instructions. A budget is provided to each team to purchase their supplies to put together a covered wagon.  Each team must abide by the same rules, limits, and specifications.  A team flag and camp song must also be picked by each team.  Teams will race their wagons after they have built them.

Throughout the event, it is the team member’s priority to practice communicating, decision-making, exercising characteristics of a leader , and to work in tandem, applying conflict management skills all along the way. They must practice problem solving in a group setting. People get a fun opportunity to develop a sense of trust in their teammates as they define roles and responsibilities to complete group challenges together.  The adrenaline rush from each activity’s speed and novelty is also chemically conducive to the group developing a sense of camaraderie.

Team building events like these can help take people out of their comfort zones and help them overcome self-limiting fears and mental barriers. They can be a safe, fun, and exciting way for companies to develop innovative, cohesive, and highly effective project teams. Team building exercises can help companies become more effectively interdependent, both internally within company departments and externally with business partners and vendors. Everyone can benefit when people feel highly motivated and comfortable working together toward common goals.

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