The variety of activities available at the Subic Bay area, from its jungles to its water sports, day activities and wonderful nightlife lends itself well to the business's using the Subic bay as a destination for company outings. These outings range from team recreation with simple activities and social events to more complex team building projects to off site management meeting. Seahorse tours can help you arrange your company outing and help insure your successful activity. Each team is unique and as such each company outing will be customized to your requirements. Elements of our tour packages and other activities on our website can be included or modified to meet your needs.
Below are samples of what we can provide, whether it is a team building, a conference or an outing. You could also create your own customized package, and we will help you organize the event for your group.
Team Recreation
Many companies sponsor activities designed to reward their employees, and to promote better relationships among co-workers and lessen work environment stress that may have been building. Often companies referring to these activities as team building as there is the benefit to the company in improved motivation and moral. There is some crossover between Team Recreation and Team Building
Team Building
Team Building refers to a wide range of activities, presented to businesses, schools, religious, sports teams, or nonprofit organizations designed for improving team performance. Team building uses a variety of practices, and can range from simple bonding exercises to complex simulations and multi-day team building retreats designed to develop a team , normally usually falling somewhere in between. It generally sits within the practice of organizational development, but can also be applied to school groups, sports teams, and others. Team building should not be confused with "team recreation" that consists of activities for teams that are strictly recreational. While some team improvements may be felt in team recreation it is not focused on the team. Team building is an important factor in any environment, its focus is in bringing out the best in a team to ensure leadership skill, self development, positive communication, and the ability to work closely together as a team to problem solve. The military is a prime example of team building, as most training in the military is based on improving the team.
Work environments tend to focus on individuals and personal goals, with reward & recognition singling out the achievements of individual employees. How to create effective teams is a challenge in every organization.
Reasons for Team Building
» Team Building includes
- » Getting to know each other
- » Improving communication
- » Making the workplace more enjoyable
- » Motivating a team
- » Practicing effective collaboration with team members
- » Getting everyone "onto the same page", including goal setting
- » Teaching the team self-regulation strategies
- » Helping participants to learn more about themselves (strengths and weaknesses)
- » dentifying and utilizing the strengths of team members
- » Improving team productivity
What are Team Building Exercises and What is their purpose?
Team building exercises consist of a variety of tasks designed to develop group members and their ability to work together effectively. There are many types of team building activities that range from kids games to games that involve novel complex tasks and are designed for specific needs. There are also more complex team building exercises that are composed of multiple exercises such as ropes courses, corporate drumming and exercises that last over several days. The purpose of team building exercises is to assist teams in becoming cohesive units of individuals that can effectively work together to complete tasks.
Subgroups of Team Building Exercises
- » Simple social activities - to encourage team members to spend time together
- » Group bonding sessions - company sponsored fun activities to get to know team members
(sometimes intending also to inspire creativity)
- » Personal development activities - individual programs given to groups (sometimes physically
challenging)
- » Team development activities - group-dynamic games designed to help individuals discover how they
approach a problem, how the team works together, and discover better methods
- » Psychological analysis of team roles, and training in how to work better together
Team interaction involves "soft" interpersonal skills including communication, negotiation, leadership, and motivation - in contrast to technical skills directly involved with the job at hand. Depending on the type of team building, the novel tasks can encourage or specifically teach interpersonal team skills to increase team performance.
The foundation of good teamwork is having a shared commitment to common objectives. Without this, all other forms of team building will have a limited impact. Therefore, before using any team building exercises and activities, or looking at relationships in the team, or embarking on other forms of team building, you need to put this foundation of shared commitment in place by:
- » Clarifying the team goals, and building ownership/commitment to those goals across the team
- » Identifying any issues which inhibit the team from reaching their goals, rand removing the inhibitors
- » Putting in place enablers to help the goals be achieved to higher standards
- » Using team processes in the correct sequence to help the team climb one rung at a time up the ladder
of performance
Team Building is therefore not just a single event, however a team building activity is a major step in starting or improving the process. It is a task primarily for the team manager and the team members themselves.
Summary
Some of the options we have outlined above are very effective and don't cost a lot of money. Social events are particularly valuable because they can be arranged to suit most people's diaries/tastes, are relatively cheap, and have a big impact. However, the best approach is often to have a "mixed portfolio" and do something in all the above areas
