Team building is a proactive leadership approach to improve cohesion between the member's of a unit.
The approach that an organization wants to take towards team building will vary.
Non-profits tend to favor team building games and activities as their primary choice for building teams since the enviornment is usually fun.
However, this doesn’t mean that corporate team building is boring, but the tone around corporate team building exercises is focused more on lessons learned from the exercises that the team completes.
For-profit organizations typically lean towards corporate team building events and leadership development programs as a solution for their team building needs.
Team building activities can be focused towards improving communications skills, leadership development, and team work.
Below is a list of team building articles and resources you can use to develop your team, management, and leadership.
The Basics of Team Building
7 Steps to Success
Team Building can be a lengthy process, just like building a home. If it’s on your mind to start team building, than you should prepare yourself and expect the process to last longer than a single event.
The Basics of Team Building
A simple guide that covers the basics to team building. It dives a little into the team stages of Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing.
How to Build a Team
The moment you engage with another person to accomplish something, you’ve established a team. Here are some team building fundamentals that can make you a more valuable team builder.
Team Building for High Performance Teams
A guide to Building High Performing Teams
Ever been stuck on a team that’s dysfunctional, inefficient, and ineffective? This article covers what it takes to build a high performing team
How to build a great team
Getting people to cooperate, work in harmony, and synchronize their efforts can be difficult. But it’s possible.
Eight ways build a great team
Under the right conditions, larges teams can achieve very high levels of cooperation. Here are eight factors
that can lead to success.
Leadership and Team Building
The Leadership Challenge: How to get extraordinary things done in organizations [pdf]
An article that discusses what a successful leader looks like and ways of becoming an exemplary leader.
Leadership in Organizations[pdf]
An article that defines leadership and cover’s the effectiveness and consequences of follower’s
and organizational stakeholders.
The Effect of Team Building on Performance [pdf]
Research findings on the effectiveness of team building. Does team building enhance performance?
Suggested Reading for Team Building Exercises
The big book of team building
General rules, tips, and guidelines for team building exercises. Addresses some of the danger zones in using games for team building.
Successful Team Building
The characteristics of great teams that have team goals as their highest priority.
Games for Virtual Team Building [pdf]
It’s increasingly common for teams to be distributed geographically. 3D virtual worlds may provide an alternate way for teams to communicate and engage one another.
Suggested Reading for Team Building Activities
Quick team-building activities for busy managers
If you have never conducted a team building activity before, it’s natural to be concerned about
what could go wrong. These are tested team building activities that are easy to conduct under most circumstances.
50 Activities for Team Building
This is a great manual that provides a collection of team building activities that can be used with intact work teams.
More Quick Team Building Activities
A sequel for busy managers who want to add an element to their meeting through team building activities.