Episode 24

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5th Jul 2023

Why Making Room For Team-Building Events Might Make Sense for Your Organization

[SUMMARY]:

Attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent is a major responsibility for HR leaders in small to mid-sized organizations. In order to achieve this, building team cohesion, camaraderie, and connection is crucial. However, in remote or hybrid work environments, this can be a challenge. Integrating team building and social events into the organization's culture can help counteract feelings of isolation and build connections between employees.

These events can also serve as opportunities for training, development, and upskilling. By learning from each other and collaborating, employees can build their skills and improve their collaboration, even if they are working remotely. Additionally, social events can provide a much-needed break from the day-to-day grind and help employees recharge and connect on a personal level.

For HR leaders in small to mid-sized organizations, building an elite organization requires empowering managers and engaging employees. Social events are a critical piece of this puzzle, helping to build connections and collaboration at a human level. By integrating team building and social events into the organization's DNA, HR leaders can create a culture of connection and community that attracts and retains top talent.

In summary, HR leaders in small to mid-sized organizations must prioritize building team cohesion, camaraderie, and connection to attract, engage, and retain top talent. Social events can serve as a tool to counteract feelings of isolation, provide opportunities for training and development, and offer a much-needed break from the day-to-day grind. By integrating these events into the organization's culture, HR leaders can build an elite organization that empowers managers and engages employees.


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0:00:00 Attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent is critical for HR leaders in small to mid-sized organizations. Building team cohesion, camaraderie, and connection is essential.

0:00:47 The goal is to build harmony across the organization and within teams. Integrating social events into the DNA of the organization is important.

0:01:17 Social events can counter the sense of isolation that remote work can create. They can also provide training and development opportunities for employees.

0:02:16 Having fun and breaking up the monotony of the day-to-day grind is essential for employees.

0:02:53 Team building and social events are a critical piece of the strategy for building collaboration, connection, and community in remote and hybrid environments.

0:03:06 The goal is to build an elite organization, which requires people to collaborate and connect at a human level.

0:03:24 Empowering managers and engaging employees is the formula for building an elite organization, and social events are a piece of that puzzle.

Transcript

The Case FOR Team-Building and Social Events

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Now in an effort to deliver on those requirements, building team cohesion, building comradery, building connection, becomes an absolutely critical element of the task at hand. And if you're in a remote or hybrid environment, that is going to be extremely difficult for you to do without adding some sort of team building or social events into the mix.

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Can lead to some folks feeling isolated. So you need to act decisively to counter that sense of isolation, and that's where team building and social events can play a big role in creating that connection.

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Lastly, you need to look at the importance of just having fun in general. Yes. Team building can be a drag if it's done wrong, but when you think about the day-to-day grind that every employee is going through, something to break up that monotony, something to recharge or offer a change of pace is going to be more often than not welcome and it's gonna give people a chance to unwind and just be in a scenario where they can just connect at a personal level. And this is especially useful if you've integrated that into the day-to-day work schedule that you have. When you're thinking about building collaboration, building connection, building community, you have to look at. Team building and social events and remote and hybrid environments as a critical piece of that strategy.

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And they will help you build that elite organization. This is a piece of the puzzle that will help you do that.

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Jim Kanichirayil

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