One of the biggest benefits of team building activities is that they give your team a huge motivational boost, and as the leader of that team, you should make the most of that. Motivating a team through team-building activities is of no use if the levels of motivation only stay high momentarily and drop once the activities have stopped.
What you really want is for your team to keep their motivation levels high continually, and that can be achieved if you set up and implement your team building activities in the right way. Most crucial is that you plan and consider the motivation elements of any team building exercise carefully for maximum effect. Your team-building activities with leadership training should have these four critical elements which will help to motivate your team.
Fun
It does not matter whether you training a football team, a group of dancers, or a team of salespeople, for them to feel motivated, they have to enjoy what they are doing. Your team building activities should have an element of fun so that the activity is not seen as some kind of chore, or worse, a penance.
Actually, this applies to any training which you give your team, but it is especially important with regards to motivating them. Working together on a task which solidifies the team spirit, but at the same time allows them to have fun, is always going to produce better results than activities that are boring and downbeat.
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