| Employees should be encouraged to work together | | | | worry about, but there is no question that they should |
| and communicate in team building activities, however a | | | | want to be the best in their field (and if not then some |
| little healthy competition is proven to be extremely | | | | serious motivation is needed!). The problems arise |
| beneficial towards stimulating and motivating the | | | | when they not only want to excel in their field, but |
| individual. It’s the Catch 22 of the corporate | | | | when the competition to excel turns against other |
| world, and proves to throw a curb ball into the mix | | | | members of the same team. |
| when you are trying to plan a team building event. | | | | It seems that competition can cause some team |
| The Healthy Balance of Competition In Team Building | | | | members to compromise their ethical standards just to |
| Competition should be a part of any good team's life. | | | | get ahead. Sometimes the old saying “it's just a |
| Competing against other companies, teams or | | | | game” can be easily forgotten when tempers |
| organisations that have similar goals is the best way to | | | | run high. It's important for trainers to keep |
| get ahead, and often brutal tactics may be called upon | | | | competitiveness balanced. |
| to do so. We are not too different from our animal | | | | While competition is encouraged to help team |
| counterparts who fight ruthlessly for survival in their | | | | members excel, stay aware when organising a team |
| own respective kingdoms, and who says that we | | | | building event that your focus is on uniting as a team. It |
| should be? How else to be successful than to be the | | | | might be a good idea to include some aspect of |
| best? It is a common fact that many who start up | | | | competition in your team building activities to quickly get |
| businesses will not last three years unless they quickly | | | | all of your team members motivated, as long as they |
| become a serious threat to their competition. | | | | are competing to work towards a common goal. Keep |
| In modern society there is a strong slant on | | | | the object of victory small and the challenges |
| competition – just look towards the media and | | | | insignificant to a wider and more personal implication so |
| commercial world. One would have to have been | | | | that the competition ends once the game does, you |
| sitting with their head under a rock to have missed the | | | | don’t want it transferring into the workplace. |
| ever continuing and highly publicised competition | | | | Good, effective and fun ideas include a football or |
| between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama (and John | | | | cricket game, a scavenger hunt, a track race, or a |
| McCain riding the coattails) in the race for American | | | | race to build a raft or complete a puzzle. These will |
| presidency. And we are only just recovering from the | | | | encourage healthy motivation and competition but |
| Howard vs Rudd media war. owardHoHkjs | | | | ensure that your team won’t still be at each |
| Debates and scare tactics are rough play, but they do | | | | others throats in the quest for the best come Monday |
| the job when it comes to rallying support in the public. | | | | morning back in the office. |
| Your team might not have a presidential candidacy to | | | | |