Team building activities are a great way to increase team skills, communication, improve morale and productivity. Employees benefit through experiencing a sense of accomplishment in working as a group to complete a challenging task.
Team building allows employees to return to the office reinvigorated and with a new set of problem-solving skills.
Team building provides a chance for the team to participate together in an experience where everyone starts with an equal level of knowledge about the given task. The novelty requires people to draw on and create team process skills to complete the task successfully.
The challenge of a new experience also requires employees to collaborate and work together in close proximity, which helps to develop relationships quickly.