Leaders, you're getting team building completely wrong

Team building has often been touted as a ‘must’ for promoting collective wellbeing, instilling office comradery and enhancing overall work-life balance.

For decades, work retreats to rural cottages to drone on endlessly about work ‘family’, team picnics, escape rooms and various other activity days have served only to tick a box that stated that the business is a ‘fun’ place to work and that they have team building ‘covered’.

Yet this isn’t how employees see it. Research conducted by Salesforce stated that a massive 75% of employees view teamwork and collaboration as ‘very important’, yet only 18% feel like evaluating this communication is a feature of performance reviews.

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Even more shocking, 86% cite this lack of communication as the key reason that projects fail. This means that although the box is being ticked, yet it’s not fulfilling its own basic need, and it’s certainly not actually being measured.